SpringSource tc Server – The logical next step
The time is ripe for lightweight AND enterprise class Java application servers, and Apache Tomcat is the pick of the litter. And now, with SpringSource tc Server, we at SpringSource make it a reality. If you were familiar with Covalent, and now SpringSource, then you most likely know about ERS (Enterprise Ready Server). ERS is Read more…
Oracle Adds New Exhibit to Java Technology Museum
Last year, Oracle acquired BEA Systems, the hottest company in enterprise Java…until around 2001. Today, they announced the acquisition of Sun Microsystems, the architects of the infrastructure of the dot com era. Remember the "dot in dot com"?? Both companies represent the history of enterprise Java, and are far less important to the future. Larry Read more…
Spring Web Flow Project Update
The Spring Web Flow project team has just completed the 7th maintenance release of Web Flow 2. This is our best release to-date and comes nearly one year to the day of the Web Flow 2.0.0 final release. Now, with the 2.0.x line mature and stable, we are beginning work on the next major version. Read more…
Enterprise Java and the American Motors Gremlin
You may remember the AMC Gremlin–a strong claimant for ugliest car ever. The Gremlin was produced back in the 70s, but there are still a few around, like this one, which I photographed last year in San Francisco. The enterprise Java experience today reminds me of this piece of American motoring heritage. The Gremlin was Read more…
Proxies in OSGi
Over the past couple of months, we've had a number of customers report issues to us regarding ClassNotFoundExceptions and proxies in dm Server. The issue actually has to do with type visibility in OSGi and is explained very well by Peter Kriens over at the OSGi Alliance Blog. Please take a look at his post Read more…
Write your Google App Engine applications in Groovy
Google just announced that their Google App Engine cloud hosting platform now supports other languages than Python: namely Java and Groovy! You can now effectively write your Google App Engine applications in Groovy! A couple of weeks ago, the SpringSource Groovy team and the Google App Engine Java team worked together, hand in hand, to Read more…
Announcing dm Server 2.0 M1
Development work on dm Server 2.0 has been fully underway for some time now and I'm pleased to announce that the first milestone is available for download. Downloads are available from our home page. You can find more information about the features in this release and the coming release in my previous entry. In this Read more…
SpringSource dm Server Roadmap
We get a lot of questions from dm Server users about what to expect in the next few releases. In this blog entry, I will outline the main features that we have on our roadmap. We are following Scrum practices so you can expect to see reasonably frequent milestones as output from our sprints, and Read more…
