Using a shared parent application context in a multi-war Spring application
Last month I gave a Core Spring training in Turkey. At the end of the course I discussed the architecture for an application that some of the participants were going to build after completing the course. This application would consist of an ear file with several war files inside, and the question came up if [...]
ASM version incompatibilities, using Spring @Autowired with Hibernate
I was working on Spring 2.1 stuff this week with Joris. We were preparing a sample using all three ways of doing dependency injection. The sample does not only highlight dependency injection, but also features a back-end based on Hibernate.
Several features in Spring 2.1 require the ASM byte code manipulation framework. Hibernate also uses ASM, [...]
Eric Evans to present @SpringOne!
Doing it again
It’s already over 2 years since the idea to launch a European conference dedicated to the ever-growing Spring community was first discussed. After having announced the first (2006) edition of SpringOne at JavaPolis 2005, over 400 people signed up for the conference – over 20% more than we anticipated. SpringOne 2006 was a [...]
Why did we raise $10m?
You may have heard the announcement that Interface21, the company behind Spring, recently raised $10m dollars. Given that we’ve been around for almost 3 years, and have achieved a lot to date, you might wonder why.
Why did we raise money and what are we going to do with it?
Over the last two years, we’ve built [...]
Spring: simple, not simplistic…
…and a little tale about why Spring does not necessarily lead to less code and certainly wasn't designed with this in mind (although of course it is a nice side-effect).
More on Java Configuration
As most of you already know by now, Spring is not just about XML as lately, a number of 'official' extensions to the core offer alternatives way for configuring the container.
Spring Java Configuration 1.0 M2 was among the products released around JavaOne and, while still marked as a milestone, had an important number of updates [...]
Infrastructure changes in Spring 2.1-m2
With the release of Spring 2.1-m2, some significant changes have been made to the infrastructure of the Spring distribution. Please see the announcement and changelog for the complete list of changes.
Distribution
The distribution has been trimmed from 26 JARs in 2.1-m1 to 17 JARs in 2.1-m2. Take a look at the changelog for the [...]
