
dm Server 2.0.0.M6
dm Server 2.0.0.M6 is now available and can be downloaded from here.
This release follows quickly on the M5 release as we close in on the first 2.0.0 release candidate. This time we've focused very heavily on fixing outstanding defects and added just a handful of new features. Take a look at the M6 [...]

Introducing tc Server Developer Edition – with Spring Insight
We are proud to present the Spring community with a new tool which helps get their applications to production even faster: tc Server Developer Edition is the standard 100% Tomcat you know and love, plus a new Spring Insight console.
Spring Insight gives deep visibility into your application’s real activity on a request-by-request basis. [...]

dm Admin Console Demo Screencast
Here is a screencast showing the dm Admin Console for the dm Server. It gives a brief tour of the dm Admin Console and then shows some of the features by deploying a simple demo application. The application consists of a configuration file, a web bundle and a content bundle. When deployed the application simply [...]

dm Kernel
In Milestone M5, for the first time, dm Kernel is available standalone. You can get it from here.
What is dm Kernel?
Basically, dm Kernel is everything good about dm Server except support for web applications. So, there are no web apps supplied (not even Admin Console or Splash) and no Tomcat —just the kernel.
Essentially, dm Kernel [...]

The dm Shell
The dm Server has a new command line shell. It is currently available along with the existing Equinox shell and will replace it for the 2.0 release. Improvements over the Equinox shell include basic tab completion and a command history.
The dm Shell is available both locally and remotely over ssh. When used locally by starting [...]

Regions
(updated 15Oct2009)
Beginning in milestone M5, dm Server 2.0 employs regions to isolate the kernel from users’ applications. This means that the kernel implementation is almost completely invisible to applications and to application management.
Also in milestone M5, support for cloning is completely removed. Region isolation and scoped plans between them offer much simpler and more manageable [...]

dm Server 2.0.0.M5
dm Server 2.0.0.M5 is now available and can be downloaded from here.
We're getting towards the end of the 2.0.0 release cycle so most of the work in this milestone is focused on locking down the user interaction model. Take a look at the M5 release notes for the full details of what we've been [...]

Drawing Spring into the Blueprint
Last month, almost 4 years after the initial 4.0 release, OSGi Alliance officially approved the OSGi service platform 4.2 release. The announcement headline featured the Blueprint Container Service, a new addition to the Compendium specification based on the programming model promoted by the Spring Dynamic Modules (also known as Spring OSGi) project. To quickly summarize [...]

New Cloud Foundry feature: Save deployment blueprints as Templates
Cloud Foundry has a great new feature called Deployment Templates that let you easily reuse your deployment blueprint settings.