
Green Beans: Getting Started with Spring in your Service Tier
All applications stem from a domain model. The term "domain model" describes the nouns, or data, in a system that is important to the problem you're trying to solve. The service tier – where business logic lives – manipulates the application data and must ultimately persist it (typically, in a database). The explanation is simple, Read more…

Green Beans: Getting Started with Spring MVC
Spring MVC, a part of the core Spring Framework, is a mature and capable action-response style web framework, with a wide range of capabilities and options aimed at handling a variety of UI-focused and non-UI-focused web tier use cases. All this can potentially be overwhelming to the Spring MVC neophyte. I think it's useful for Read more…

Green Beans: Putting the Spring in Your Step (and Application)
The Spring framework emerged as a de-facto standard in 2003 and has been helping people build bigger, better applications with cleaner code ever since. In this post, we will discuss the options available to you for configuring an application using the Spring component model. We will grow a simple application from the simplest form and Read more…

Spring Integration 2.0 Release Candidate 1
We are pleased to announce the first release candidate of Spring Integration 2.0! Download | Reference Manual | JavaDoc I thought I would take the opportunity to provide a general "what's new?" guide. There are actually too many new features and improvements to cover them all in a single post, but I will focus on Read more…

A Big Hop Forward: Spring Roo 1.1.0 Is Released!
After more than ten months of development and nearly 900 individual improvements, Spring Roo 1.1.0 has been released (download here)! Coinciding with the Spring Roo 1.1.0 GA release, the Google Web Toolkit, SpringSource Tool Suite, AspectJ and AJDT teams have completed supporting GA releases so that you can enjoy the latest versions of these tools Read more…

Spring 3 on a Java EE 6 server
Spring on Java EE 6 – a viable combination? Can you easily continue to use Spring when you have a Java EE 6 server to deploy to? At this year's edition of the SpringOne conference which kicked off just a few hours ago, I'll once again be presenting a session on Spring and EE 6: Read more…

Spring Roo 1.1.0.M3 Released
Update: SpringSource Tool Suite 3.5.0.M3 is now available for download. It includes the latest Spring Roo 1.1.0.M3 and GWT 2.1.0.M3 support. Many members of the community have been eagerly awaiting Spring Roo 1.1.0.M3, and I'm pleased to announce it is now available (download here). This release incorporates more than 150 new features, enhancements and other Read more…

Spring GemFire 1.0.0.M1 released for Java and .NET
I am happy to announce the first milestone release of the Spring GemFire project, the newest member in the Spring family. Spring GemFire (for short SGF) brings the Spring concepts and programming model to GemFire, SpringSource's distributed data management platform. The release is available for both Java and .NET. The features in 1.0.0.M1 include: declarative Read more…

Spring Roo 1.1.0.M2 Released
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…

Introducing the Flex Addon for Spring Roo
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…

