I'm pleased to announce we've just released Spring Roo 1.1.0.M2 (download here). We've also concurrently released SpringSource Tool Suite 2.3.3.M2, which offers the latest integration with this new Spring Roo release. For production use we recommend you continue to use Spring Roo 1.0.2, although we know a very large number of people are happily using Read more…

Recently we released the first milestone of the Flex Addon for Spring Roo as a part of the Spring BlazeDS Integration 1.5.0.M1 distribution. This addon aims to bring the productivity and usability benefits of Spring Roo to the development of Spring-based RIAs with Flex. The below 15 minute screencast (split into two parts) serves as Read more…

The Spring Insight team is proud to announce the release of Spring Insight 1.0.0.M3.  This release contains a ton of new enhancements to give you more productivity and get your application to production even faster.  Spring Insight is available as part of tc Server Developer Edition and SpringSource Tool Suite but you can snag the Read more…

A few weeks ago I tweeted that—incredibly—SpringSource was executing faster within VMware than as a startup. Today we announce another exciting development bearing this out. Following our VMforce partnership with SaaS leader salesforce.com, we are today announcing a collaboration between VMware and Google, centering around the Spring programming model and SpringSource IDE and RAD tooling. Read more…

I'm delighted to announce that we've just released Spring Roo 1.1.0.M1. Spring Roo is the fastest way for Java developers to build Spring-based applications in the Java programming language. With the Roo 1.1.0.M1 you can build working web applications – complete with a Google Web Toolkit (GWT) front end – in as little as 200 Read more…

Another week, another important announcement. The SpringSource division of VMware today announced that we have entered into a definitive agreement to acquire GemStone Systems, a leader in data grid technology. This acquisition, like our recent acquisition of Rabbit Technologies, adds another crucial building block of private and public cloud to our middleware portfolio. Like Rabbit Read more…

VMware and Salesforce today announced a partnership to build an enterprise Java cloud called VMforce. The announcement is understandably receiving a lot of attention in the wider industry context, but today I’d like to focus on the central role of SpringSource technology in the new platform and the unique and compelling benefits it brings developers Read more…

SpringSource dm Server 2.0.1 is released today. The release fixes a few minor bugs and one security issue. The Admin Console's version of dojo is upgraded from 1.3.2 to 1.3.3 to prevent an open redirect attack. The release also includes the final Reference Implementation of the OSGi Web Container. The OSGi Web Container specification was Read more…

The UDP and TCP channel adapters introduced in Spring Integration 2.0 Milestone 3 provide lightweight communication either between two or more Spring Integration applications, or between a Spring Integration application and some other platform. Following on from Oleg's blog about the Loan Broker, I use the same example to show how to use the new Read more…

We are pleased to announce the first installment of the 'Loan Broker' Reference Implementation. 'Loan Broker' concept has become a de-facto reference domain for showcasing Enterprise Integration Patterns (EIP) – by Gregor Hohpe ad Bobby Woolf, and this installment of the Loan Broker RI demonstrates how Enterprise Integration Patterns are realized and applied using Spring Read more…