SpringSource Team Blog

Amsterdam Java Meetup - September 12th

Alef Arendsen — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 06:15:22 +0000

Now that the holiday season (at in the Netherlands that is) has almost ended, I thought it would be time for another Amsterdam Java Meetup. So, we reserved the good-old Jaren in the Nieuwe Doelenstraat again, for having a few (paid-for) drinks with fellow Java developers and everybody else that wants to join in. We're doing [...]

Optimising and Tuning Apache Tomcat

Mark Thomas — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 16:18:12 +0000

On Wednesday I gave a webinar 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 webinars, as well as the Covalent webinar archive. I wasn't able [...]

SpringSource Enterprise Commercially Available

Peter Cooper-Ellis — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 22:01:55 +0000

Yesterday, SpringSource announced the GA release of SpringSource Enterprise. As our first commercial product release, this is an important milestone for us. The engineering team did an amazing job putting this release together. The package includes enterprise versions of Spring, the SpringSource Tool Suite, SpringSource Application Management Suite and SpringSource Advanced Pack for Oracle Database, [...]

Developing Rich Web Applications with Spring

Keith Donald — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 16:32:50 +0000

I am pleased to announce that Developing Rich Web Applications with Spring, a three-day bootcamp lead by SpringSource engineers on web application development, is now available. This intense, hands-on workshop teaches how to apply the latest versions of Spring Web MVC, Spring Web Flow, Spring JavaScript, and Spring Faces to create rich web applications. It [...]

Using EclipseLink on the SpringSource Application Platform

Rob Harrop — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 09:31:38 +0000

This week the EclipseLink team announced the release of EclipseLink 1.0. I've been using EclipseLink on S2AP for a while now; in fact, I used EclipseLink when developing our JPA load-time-weaving support. We've yet to upgrade our internal usage to 1.0 - our beta9 was tagged just before the announcement - but I wanted to demonstrate [...]

SpringSource Seminar Day in Central Europe

Juergen Hoeller — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 22:17:21 +0000

SpringSource is organizing its first dedicated seminar day in central Europe: the SpringSource Seminar Day in Linz, Austria, on September 8th, 2008. This is a full-day seminar about current hot topics in the Spring portfolio: a rare chance to hear about what's brand-new and upcoming right from the Spring project leads! The agenda is planned [...]

Pumping it dry: $200 a barrel and $25,000 per CPU

Rod Johnson — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 09:47:18 +0000

When Oracle acquired BEA systems, I and others noted the significance of the loss of the only independent Java middleware vendor. With Oracle’s recent announcement of a price hike for their products, including WebLogic Server, this is no longer a theoretical issue. They have the oil, and they think they have existing customers over a [...]

Running a Spring Batch Job in The SpringSource Application Platform

Dave Syer — Fri, 30 May 2008 16:26:51 +0000

In this article I will show you how to run a Spring Batch job in the SpringSource Application Platform. I ran an early version of this up as a little demo for JavaOne, and then again at the London Spring User Group, and thought it might be a good thing to share. The [...]

Open Source, Open Strategy: The SpringSource Manifesto

Rod Johnson — Wed, 28 May 2008 00:05:06 +0000

As an open source software provider, we think we should be open about our strategy, too. We'd like to share how we got here, where we're going and why the journey will be good for Spring, good for Spring users and good for SpringSource. Our History The Spring story began in 2001, when I began working on [...]

Implementing Enterprise Integration Patterns part 0

Iwein Fuld — Mon, 19 May 2008 19:24:51 +0000

After my talk on Spring Integration I've been getting quite some questions on clarification and samples. To meet the demand I will start a small series on implementing different integration patterns using Spring Integration. This first article will focus on the basics. It will show you how to get up and running and walk through [...]