Today, Portability Matters More Than Ever
Yesterday, I blogged about how Spring helps maximize application portability. Even if the portability problem has been an ongoing topic in enterprise Java land for many years, that blog was timely. Today, Oracle announced that its $6.7 billion acquisition of BEA Systems has closed. There is substantial overlap between the product sets of the two […]
Portability at the Framework Level
Portability is a key factor in the Spring universe. We believe in portability at the framework level: Application components are written against a specific framework (or framework generation), such as Spring 2.5; the framework is then in turn responsible for adapting onto any underlying hosting environment. However, the specific application framework is above and distinct […]
Spring 2.5's Comprehensive Annotation Support
One of the central themes behind Spring 2.5 is comprehensive annotation-based configuration. We've been talking and blogging a lot about @Autowired, about Spring MVC's @RequestMapping and also about the new support for annotated tests written with JUnit4 or TestNG. @Autowired is certainly the central one of Spring 2.5's annotations, being available for use in service […]
Annotated Web MVC Controllers in Spring 2.5
Spring 2.5 introduces an approach for writing annotated Web MVC controllers, which we haven't been blogging about much yet… I'll take the opportunity to give you an overview of what Spring MVC is really about these days.
Spring MVC is essentially a request dispatcher framework, with a Servlet API variant and Portlet API variant. It operates […]
Spring 2.5 RC1 is here - introducing new configuration approaches
As some of you will have noticed already, Spring 2.5 RC1 has finally been released on Monday and is waiting for you to give it a test drive! Spring 2.5 is in many ways the release that completes Spring 2.0's mission: providing the most flexible and most comprehensive configuration model for both Java 1.4 and Java […]
Spring Framework 2.1 turns into Spring Framework 2.5!
My first blog post - and what a big announcement to make
After a series of Spring 2.1 milestone releases, we've been reviewing the overall set of features that we introduced:
full Java 6 and Java EE 5 support (JDBC 4.0, JTA 1.1, JavaMail 1.4, JAX-WS 2.0, etc)
full-featured annotation-driven dependency injection (including support for 'qualifier' […]
