SpringSource Team Blog

First Grails Release Under the SpringSource Banner

grocher — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 16:45:00 +0000

I'm pleased to announce the first release of Grails since the acquisition of G2One by SpringSource. Grails 1.0.4 includes a number of improvements as well as upgrades to key libraries that underpin Grails and can be downloaded from the Grails download page. More specifically Grails 1.0.4 ships with the latest Spring 2.5.6 release that came [...]

More Weapons for the War on Complexity: SpringSource Acquires Groovy/Grails Leader

Rod Johnson — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 11:30:55 +0000

I am delighted to announce that SpringSource has acquired G2One, the company behind Grails and Groovy. Why? I’m excited about this deal for many reasons. Grails is a great fit with Spring and SpringSource technologies. Grails is built on Spring. It offers another route to adopt Spring, the de facto standard component model for enterprise Java. All [...]

Deploying GWT Applications in SpringSource dm Server - Part 1

Ben Corrie — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 16:29:05 +0000

Introduction This will be a series of 3 blogs describing a step-by-step approach to building and deploying GWT applications in the SpringSource dm Server™. The focus of the blogs will be as follows: Building and deploying the GWT StockWatcher sample app as a WAR file in dm Server, using the SpringSource Tool Suite to build it from [...]

A Word About the Election

Rod Johnson — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 01:36:34 +0000

No, not the Obama/McCain smackdown on Nov 4. As you may have read in SD Times, SpringSource has been elected to the JCP Executive Committee for Java SE/EE, along with SAP, Ericsson, Nokia, Philips, and IBM. I will be the SpringSource representative. Not that the JCP matches the scale of the presidential race. But this is [...]

Getting started with SpringSource dm Server

Rob Harrop — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 17:30:56 +0000

Updated 28-Oct-2008: Added up-to-date sample links and link to third sample Last night I presented 'Introduction to SpringSource dm Server' at the Philadelphia Spring User's Group. During this presentation I created a small application called GreenPages, demonstrating all the major aspects of dm Server. I promised the attendees that I would post the application and the [...]

Spring Batch 2.0 New Feature Rundown

Dave Syer — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 11:23:13 +0000

In this article we outline the main themes of Spring Batch 2.0, and highlight the changes from 1.x. Development work on the new release is well underway, with an M2 release last week, and we are getting a lot of interest, so now seems like a good time to give a few pointers. Spring Batch [...]

Understanding the OSGi uses Directive

Glyn Normington — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 15:27:10 +0000

If you build an application for the SpringSource dm Server, or any other OSGi platform, you'll probably encounter the uses directive before long. Unless you have a clear understanding of the purpose of the directive, you won't know when to code it and you'll be left guessing when a bundle fails to resolve because of [...]

Optimising and Tuning Apache Tomcat - Part 2

Mark Thomas — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 17:09:37 +0000

A few weeks ago Filip Hanik and I gave the second in a series of webinars on Optimising and Tuning Apache Tomcat. A recording of the webinar and a copy of the slides can be obtained from the webinars section of the SpringSource website. The same page has links for all the previous SpringSource [...]

A Question of Balance: Tuning the Maintenance Policy

Rod Johnson — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 19:21:38 +0000

Running a business is like writing code in at least one respect: You don’t always get it right the first time, even if you know what you want to achieve—but you do get a better result in the end if you are prepared to rework things when necessary. At SpringSource, we had a clear vision [...]

The Common Service Locator library

Mark Pollack — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 19:19:38 +0000

The CommonServiceLocator project was released this week on CodePlex with the general idea of providing an IoC container agnostic API for resolving dependencies using Service Location. Erich Eichinger from SpringSource contributed the Spring.NET implementation, thanks Erich! Here is the API so you get the basic idea public interface IServiceLocator : System.IServiceProvider { object GetInstance(Type [...]