Spring Integration 1.0.3 is now available. You can find links to the download, reference manual, and more at the Spring Integration home. This release includes quite a few changes, but in this blog, I'm going to focus on one in particular. Starting with this version, the samples are fully self-contained and Maven-enabled. That means you [...]

The Spring Integration 1.0 GA release was announced 2 months ago at SpringOne Americas, and ever since I've been meaning to write a new, up-to-date "getting started" blog post. Well, the beginning of the year is always a busy time, so my goal is to provide a hands-on example with 10 steps. Each step should [...]

In my recent post, I had mentioned that the Subversion repository for Spring Integration would be publicly accessible soon, and I'm pleased to provide that link now. You can checkout the project with the following command:
svn co https://anonsvn.springframework.org/svn/spring-integration/base/trunk spring-integration
If the checkout is successful, you should see the following directory structure:
spring-integration/
+–build-spring-integration/
+–spring-build/
[...]

Yesterday morning I presented a 2-part session at The Spring Experience entitled "Enterprise Integration Patterns with Spring". The first presentation included an overview of core Spring support for enterprise integration - including JMS, remoting, JMX, scheduling, and email. That presentation also included a high-level discussion of several of the Enterprise Integration Patterns introduced in the [...]

Last night I attended a New England Java User Group (NEJUG) meeting where Reza Rahman presented a "comparative analysis" of EJB 3 and Spring. Reza is one of the authors of EJB 3 in Action. I enjoyed meeting Reza and respect him for presenting what may be considered a controversial topic. Also I appreciate that [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Several months ago, I posted a blog entry introducing Spring 2.0's support for Message Driven POJOs. While many people are now familiar with that feature, Spring 2.0's JMS remoting features have received less attention. Essentially, this remoting functionality provides a JMS-based version of Spring's general approach to remoting as exhibited in its support for RMI, [...]

Spring 2.0.1 introduced an AbstractRoutingDataSource. I believe that it deserves attention, since (based on frequent questions from clients) I have a hunch that there are quite a few 'home-grown' solutions to this problem floating around. That combined with the fact that it is trivial to implement yet easy to overlook, and now I have several [...]

I am very excited to announce that the Spring SIG within the New England Java Users Group will be having our first meeting this Thursday (September 28th, 2006). Ramnivas Laddad (author of AspectJ in Action and Interface21 Principal) will be presenting "AspectJ for Spring Developers". This will be a great chance to learn about the [...]