| | 1 | IOC stands for inversion of control. There are serveral implementations for this like: |
| | 2 | * Spring |
| | 3 | * Seam |
| | 4 | * and lot's of others |
| | 5 | |
| | 6 | Spring probably the most used one. Seam is coming up. Spring is chosen because it has a good track record and the team knows it. |
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| | 8 | For the peristence layer, two types of configuration styles can be used |
| | 9 | * jpa style (at this moment not possible to use Hibernate search) |
| | 10 | * hibernate style (possible to use Hibernate Search) |
| | 11 | For the reasons mentioned the Spring configuration in Hibernate style is chosen. |
