
Spring Security Kerberos/SPNEGO Extension
We're pleased to announce that the first milestone of the Spring Security Kerberos Extension is now available for download. The release is also available through the Maven milestone repository at http://maven.springframework.org/milestone. With the Spring Security Kerberos Extension, your users are authenticated against your web application just by opening the URL. There is no need to [...]

SpringSource tc Server 6.0.20.A Now Available
In April of this year, SpringSource made generally available our first release of tc Server, version 6.0.19.A. The product has been a huge success, in part due to being based on the tried and true Apache Tomcat base which many, many people (and more and more all the time) are using every day. As outlined [...]

dm Server 2.0 M3
dm Server 2.0.0.M3 has been released, and is now available for download.
In the sprints since 2.0.0.M3, we've made significant progress towards the final release, both in terms of new features, and in defect fixes. Take a look at the M3 release notes if you're interested in seeing everything that we've been working on. Please keep [...]

Pluggable styling with SpringSource Slices
Since we announced SpringSource Slices, a number of users and customers have asked about using Slices to make the styling and branding of their Web sites pluggable. In this blog, I'll demonstrate how easy it is with Slices.
Pluggable styling
I have a standard war file, named styled.host.war, that contains a very simple index.html page:
<html>
<head>
<title>SpringSource Slices Pluggable [...]

Using Yourkit to Find a Memory Leak
I had such a great experience today with Yourkit that I thought I'd write a quick plug. It's been a couple of years since I used it in anger, and even then it was the best tool I could find, but now it really is ultra slick. I haven't done an exhaustive survey [...]

Exploring Roo's Architecture
Last month we discovered how easy it is to build a fully-fledged enterprise application in just a few minutes using Spring Roo – our new productivity tool for Java developers. While many Java developers have already started evaluating Roo to help save time on their projects, I've received a lot of questions from people curious [...]

Spring Security 3.0.0.M1 Released
We're pleased to announce that the first milestone of Spring Security 3.0 is now available for download. The release is also available through the Maven milestone repository at http://maven.springframework.org/milestone. As with Spring 3.0, this is the first release which requires a minimum JDK 1.5 to run and also require Spring 3.0, so you should get [...]

Getting Started with Spring Roo
Update: The third installment of the "Introducing Spring Roo" blog series is now available and covers Roo's internal architecture in detail.
I have a confession to make. While many of you would know I've been busily working away on Spring Roo in recent months, I also have a separate project that hasn't made it into Subversion. [...]

Grails 1.1.1 released with Google AppEngine support
Today we are pleased to announce the availability of Grails 1.1.1 which whilst providing many incremental improvements over Grails 1.1 also introduces official support for Google AppEngine.
Groovy itself has been running on AppEngine since its launch, but we had to make a few tweaks here and there in Grails to make Grails applications run on [...]

Jump into Roo for extreme Java productivity
Update: The second installment of the "Introducing Spring Roo" blog series is now available and includes a detailed step-by-step tutorial to help you get started with Roo. The third installment covers Roo's internal architecture in detail.
The twittersphere has been abuzz this week with news from SpringOne Europe. One announcement generating a significant amount of interest [...]