SpringSource Team Blog

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 [...]

SpringSource dm Server 1.0.0 reaches GA

Peter Cooper-Ellis — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 20:54:40 +0000

You may have noticed that SpringSource announced the general availability of the SpringSource dm Server™ today. The dm Server is part of the SpringSource Application Platform. Since this is the first time out for the dm Server, I want to make a couple of short comments about the product. We believe that the [...]

SpringSource Seminar Day Linz in Review

Juergen Hoeller — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 21:47:01 +0000

A brief pictorial review of the SpringSource Seminar Day in Linz, having happened on September 8th, 2008, at the Bergschloessl Linz… More than 150 people were listening to a six-pack of presentations about what's new and upcoming at SpringSource. The "Story of Spring" keynote by Rod Johnson and Adrian Colyer was a great start into [...]

SpringSource (and other top vendors) leading the OSGi charge

Adrian Colyer — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 07:13:13 +0000

In a press release made available by the OSGi Alliance yesterday, several leading vendors including SpringSource, IBM, Oracle, RedHat, Sun, SAP, ProSyst, and Paremus joined forces in their support of OSGi as the foundation for next generation server platforms. To highlight some of the key points: Craig Hayman, VP IBM WebSphere said [IBM] has been shipping WebSphere Application [...]

SpringSource dm Server 1.0 RC2 Released

Rob Harrop — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 16:01:16 +0000

I'm happy to announce the availability of RC2 of the SpringSource dm Server, previously known as the SpringSource Application Platform. This release is feature complete and barring any serious issues will become 1.0 GA in two weeks time. This release fixes a few critical bugs, upgrades to Tomcat 6.0.18 and updates all code, documentation and [...]

Certification Examination for Spring 2.5 Released!

Daryl Heinz — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 16:27:36 +0000

As Director of Training here at SpringSource, I would like to thank you, the community of Spring developers, for your continued and enthusiastic interest in the SpringSource Certified Professional program. I am pleased to announce that beginning Monday, September 8, 2008 the certification exam for version 2.5 of the Spring Framework will be available. [...]

Early draft of OSGi Service Platform Release 4.2 specification now available

Adrian Colyer — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 18:02:56 +0000

The OSGi Alliance have posted an early draft of release 4.2 of the Service Platform specification. SpringSource employees are active members of both the Core Platform Expert Group (CPEG) and the Enterprise Expert Group (EEG) within the Alliance. My personal involvement has been largely with the EEG, and particularly with RFC 124 "A Component Model [...]

Who is the Chief of the Apache projects?

Mark Brewer — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 05:30:03 +0000

The answer is the Apache Software Foundation (ASF), a non-profit, meritocracy-based organization made up of individuals (not companies) who contribute code, bug fixes, answers to user questions, their time, and sometimes even their money to ensure that the software they are delivering addresses real-world requirements, along with being robust, secure, and widely adopted. [...]

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 [...]