Last month Rod Johnson presented at three Australian Spring User Group meetings a session entitled, "What's New and Cool in Spring 2.0". Rod mentioned during those meetings that I'd make his presentation available, so here it is.
There are some other recent presentations that people have also been emailing me about. In no particular order, here […]

I was on site at a customer last week and a question came from the crowd, "Why isn't getConfigLocations() abstract anymore?" After working in front of customers for a while, it becomes rare that you're speechless, and yet I was. To be honest, my first thought was that there was no way the […]

In the run up to The Spring Experience I've been busy but I've noticed that Rod's been really active on the blogging front. So in some spare time in airports and on planes today, I've decided to do a little blogging.
One of the biggest balancing acts that we in the Spring community have is […]

If you've followed October's Spring 2.0 release, you will know that one of the big new features was XML extension name spaces: the ability to define new XML elements and attributes that generate Spring metadata, and can be used alongside regular bean definitions. This provides a valuable new extension point and makes Spring configuration both […]

One last Spring 2.0 announcement on a day full of them. The Maven POMs for Spring 2.0 are up in Spring's private repository. If you want to point to it directly check https://svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/springframework/repos/repo/. If you want to wait, they should be replicated into the Ibiblio Maven repository over the next couple of […]

There has been quite a bit of discussion over my recent announcement about Spring and Maven. The discussion is all very good and worthwhile, but I do want to clarify a couple of points that I made.
First and foremost, we are committed to supporting Spring users who are using Maven as their build system […]

Can you guess what it is? If you guessed a Maven bundle/build for Spring you win. Come see me at The Spring Experience in December and we'll share a frosty beverage as your prize.
Mea Culpa
In a past life I did a lot of work in configuration management and build systems. When I […]

As most of you know, one of the big improvements in Spring 2.0 is the addition of the AspectJ pointcut language and better integration with AspectJ in general. While I think everyone believes that this will be a great benefit in the long run, it has led to some issues. We've found that […]

Lately it seems like I've been focusing on creating Spring XML namespaces. It's been a lot of trial and error (both on the XSD and Spring side) to get a good pattern for creating parsers. One of the biggest confusions that I ran into was the AbstractBeanDefinitionParser hierarchy. At this point it […]

Of all the new Spring 2.0 features and improvements, I must admit that Message-Driven POJOs are one of my personal favorites. I have a feeling that a lot of other Spring users will feel the same way.

Here I am providing a quick introduction. There is a lot more to show, and I will follow this […]