Archive for the Spring category

Christian Dupuis

SpringSource Tool Suite now free

It was April 27th around 2:39pm, when Rod announced in his SpringOne Europe opening keynote:
“STS will be free!"
Reto Meier, with our partner namics, took a picture as proof of that very moment and published it on flickr.com. Also the audience at SpringOne seemed to be enthusiastic about the announcement and as a consequence the word [...]

Juergen Hoeller

Spring Framework 3.0 M3 released

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, [...]

Rod Johnson

SpringSource Plus Hyperic Unifies Application Lifecycle From Developer to Data Center

A few weeks ago, I laid out SpringSource’s vision for creating a unified enterprise Java solution that spans the application lifecycle. Today, we announce a significant advance in realizing that vision: SpringSource’s acquisition of Hyperic, which greatly strengthens our capabilities for the management of modern applications and infrastructure.
As SpringSource has grown, like the Spring open [...]

Ben Alex

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 [...]

Jim Jagielski

SpringSource tc Server - The logical next step

The time is ripe for lightweight AND enterprise class Java application servers, and Apache Tomcat is the pick of the litter. And now, with SpringSource tc Server, we at SpringSource make it a reality.
If you were familiar with Covalent, and now SpringSource, then you most likely know about ERS (Enterprise Ready Server). ERS is our [...]

Keith Donald

Spring Web Flow Project Update

The Spring Web Flow project team has just completed the 7th maintenance release of Web Flow 2. This is our best release to-date and comes nearly one year to the day of the Web Flow 2.0.0 final release. Now, with the 2.0.x line mature and stable, we are beginning work on the next [...]

Rod Johnson

Enterprise Java and the American Motors Gremlin

You may remember the AMC Gremlin–a strong claimant for ugliest car ever. The Gremlin was produced back in the 70s, but there are still a few around, like this one, which I photographed last year in San Francisco.

The enterprise Java experience today reminds me of this piece of American motoring heritage. The Gremlin was a [...]

Rob Harrop

SpringSource dm Server Roadmap

We get a lot of questions from dm Server users about what to expect in the next few releases. In this blog entry, I will outline the main features that we have on our roadmap. We are following Scrum practices so you can expect to see reasonably frequent milestones as output from our sprints, and [...]

Rob Harrop

Announcing dm Server Getting Started Guide

Over the past few months, the community has shown a great deal of interest in dm Server. The forums are very active and we always have stimulating discussions when presenting at conferences. We've noticed that a lot of the same questions come up as users start developing their first applications for dm Server, and so [...]

Shaun Connolly

Job Trends: Tomcat, Spring, Weblogic, JBoss, EJB

Forrester recently described a trend that they refer to as "lean software" in their paper entitled Lean Software Is Agile, Fit-To-Purpose, And Efficient. They state that "lean software is emerging as the antidote to bloatware" and that "the trend toward lean software has been building for years, but the worldwide recession is accelerating it".
Forrester mentions [...]