We are pleased to announce that the third Spring 3.0 milestone is available now (download page)! This release comes with many new features and refinements, including…
Reference documentation: M3 is the first Spring 3.0 milestone that comes with reference documentation, in both HTML and PDF format. Even if the documentation is still a work in progress, [...]

We are pleased to announce that the second Spring 3.0 milestone is finally available (download page).
This release comes with a wealth of revisions and new features:
Further Java 5 style API updates: consistent use of generic Collections and Maps, consistent use of generified FactoryBeans, and also consistent resolution of bridge methods in the Spring AOP API. [...]

I'm pleased to announce that Spring Framework 3.0 M1 is finally available for download!
This release features several major changes, including a start of the major 3.0 themes such as EL and REST support:

revised project layout and build system with module-based sources
updated entire codebase for Java 5 code style (generics, varargs)
updated to JUnit 4.5 and JRuby [...]

A brief pictorial review of the SpringSource Seminar Day in Linz, having happened on September 8th, 2008, at the Bergschloessl Linz… More than 150 people were listening to a six-pack of presentations about what's new and upcoming at SpringSource. The "Story of Spring" keynote by Rod Johnson and Adrian Colyer was a great start into [...]

SpringSource is organizing its first dedicated seminar day in central Europe: the SpringSource Seminar Day in Linz, Austria, on September 8th, 2008. This is a full-day seminar about current hot topics in the Spring portfolio: a rare chance to hear about what's brand-new and upcoming right from the Spring project leads! The agenda is planned [...]

Yesterday, I blogged about how Spring helps maximize application portability. Even if the portability problem has been an ongoing topic in enterprise Java land for many years, that blog was timely. Today, Oracle announced that its $6.7 billion acquisition of BEA Systems has closed. There is substantial overlap between the product sets of the two [...]

Portability is a key factor in the Spring universe. We believe in portability at the framework level: Application components are written against a specific framework (or framework generation), such as Spring 2.5; the framework is then in turn responsible for adapting onto any underlying hosting environment. However, the specific application framework is above and distinct [...]

One of the central themes behind Spring 2.5 is comprehensive annotation-based configuration. We've been talking and blogging a lot about @Autowired, about Spring MVC's @RequestMapping and also about the new support for annotated tests written with JUnit4 or TestNG. @Autowired is certainly the central one of Spring 2.5's annotations, being available for use in service [...]

Spring 2.5 introduces an approach for writing annotated Web MVC controllers, which we haven't been blogging about much yet… I'll take the opportunity to give you an overview of what Spring MVC is really about these days.
Spring MVC is essentially a request dispatcher framework, with a Servlet API variant and Portlet API variant. It operates [...]

As some of you will have noticed already, Spring 2.5 RC1 has finally been released on Monday and is waiting for you to give it a test drive! Spring 2.5 is in many ways the release that completes Spring 2.0's mission: providing the most flexible and most comprehensive configuration model for both Java 1.4 and Java [...]