NOTE: This post has been updated as of May 31, 2007 to reflect the state of the 2.1-M2 official release

Two weeks ago I blogged about the new annotation-driven dependency injection capabilities of Spring 2.1, and I mentioned that I would follow-up with more info "later in the week". It turns out that was a bit [...]

It's been a while since I had time to blog. We've been busy. We raised $10m. As Adrian has pointed out, we've been very active in product development. I've written more code myself than usual in the last couple of months. (Mainly on experimental stuff, which may or may not see the light of day, [...]

Late last year we started talking about the notion of a Spring "release train". The idea behind the release train is that we put out co-ordinated releases of the products in the Spring Portfolio: tested together and working together. You can still pick and choose the pieces you need, but it will be easier to [...]

When Sun scheduled my JavaOne 2007 session on Spring Web Flow for Friday, the last day of the conference, I wasn't sure what to expect. I was honored to have been accepted again this year, but I wondered what I would see in terms of attendance presenting on the last day of the 4-day [...]

Spring 2.0 introduced annotation support and annotation-aware configuration options that can be leveraged by Spring users who are developing with Java 5 (or later versions):

@Transactional
for demarcating and configuring transaction definitions

@Aspect (AspectJ)
for defining aspects along with @Pointcut definitions and advice (@Before, @After, @Around)

@Repository
for indicating a class that is operating as a repository (a.k.a. Data Access [...]

I've recently finished up an interesting issue in Spring Web Flow. This issue (SWF-163) dealt with adding Spring 2.0 bean scoping support for Spring Web Flow's internal scopes. The implementation isn't really that interesting (the Scope interface is pretty easy to implement after all), but I wanted to mention exactly how you would [...]

Introduction
I've been working hard with a couple of clients on a new product called Spring Batch. The aim is to provide tools and applications to support bulk processing in an enterprise environment. Spring Batch is part of the Spring Portfolio with an initial release in the Spring 2.1 release train.
The original [...]

No, that's not my headline, it's actually the title of a white paper recently published by Open SOA collaboration. To quote from the news announcement accompanying the whitepaper:
"Based upon user feedback, the OSOA Collaboration are publishing a white paper highlighting the powerful combination of the SCA, Spring and OSGi technologies aimed to help Developers simplify [...]