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SpringOne Europe 2009 Session: Implementing REST Web Application Architectures



InfoQ has published another great presentation from SpringOne Europe 2009. In this technical talk, Arjen Poutsma explains RESTFul concepts and discusses Spring 3.0 support for REST in Spring MVC. For these new RESTful features in Spring ... [More] , he provides details about RESTful URI's, URI templates, Content negotiation, HTTP method conversion, and ETag support.

Arjen will be presenting an updated version of this presentation and will be joined by other Spring, Groovy and Grails experts at SpringOne 2GX 2009, October 19-22nd, in New Orleans. Be sure to register now! [Less]

SpringOne 2GX 2009: Last Week for Early Registration



This is the last week to save $200 off the registration fee for the SpringOne 2GX 2009 conference held October 19-22nd in New Orleans, LA. Combining the popular SpringOne Americas conference with the Groovy & Grails 2GX conference ... [More] , SpringOne 2GX attendees will have the opportunity to attend two great events at one venue. The Essential Spring track includes the following sessions:

What's New in Spring 3.0 - Arjen Poutsma
DI Wizardy with the Spring Expression Language - Craig Walls
Automating Operations with Spring Batch and Spring Integration - Mark Fisher & Dave Syer

Check out the full schedule and take a look at all of the Groovy & Grails sessions too. Be sure to register before September 18th for the early sign up discount. [Less]

Core Spring Framework Training - September

During the Core Spring Framework Training students will be taken to the level of expert in Spring and will get a free voucher to become Spring Certified. The upcoming Core Spring Framework courses for September:

North & South ... [More] America

Argentina: Buenos Aires, 22 – 25 September '09

Arizona: Phoenix, 22 – 25 September '09

Canada: Toronto, 15 – 18 September '09

Massachussetts: Boston, 15 – 18 September '09

Pennsylvania: Fort Washington, Sep 29 – Oct 02

Virginia: McLean, 22 – 25 September '09

Washington: Seattle, 22 – 25 September '09

Europe, Middle East & Africa

Belarus: Minsk, Sep 29 – Oct 02

Denmark: Copenhagen, 15 – 18 September '09

France: Paris, 22 – 25 September '09

Germany: Hamburg, 15 – 18 September '09

Hungary: Budapest, Sep 29 – Oct 02

Italy: Rome, 22 – 25 September '09

Luxembourg: Luxembourg, Sep 29 – Oct 02

Portugal: Lisboa, 22 – 25 September '09

Romania: Bucharest, Sep 29 – Oct 02

Spain: Madrid, Sep 28 – Oct 01

Turkey: Ankara, 22 – 25 September '09

United Kingdom: Newcastle, Sep 29 – Oct 02

Australia & Asia

Australia: Perth, 22 – 25 September '09

China: Beijing, 15 – 18 September '09

India: Mumbai, Sep 29 – Oct 02

Singapore: Singapore, 22 – 25 September '09

Your location not in the upcoming trainings for September? Please take a look at our full Core Spring Framework Training schedule [Less]

SpringOne Europe 2009 Session: Spring Roo



InfoQ continues to publish fantastic content from SpringOne Europe 2009. In this technical presentation, Ben Alex talks about extreme productivity in application development using the new Spring Roo project. The recorded presentation is ... [More] from April of this year and Roo has progressed significantly since and is now at release candidate stage. Be sure to check out Ben's blog posts describing Roo:

Jump into Roo for extreme Java productivity
Getting Started with Spring Roo
Exploring Roo's Architecture

Fantastic presentations like this will be happening again, October 19-22nd, in New Orleans at SpringOne 2GX 2009. Be sure to register now! [Less]

SpringSource at VMworld 2009



VMworld 2009 started yesterday in San Francisco and SpringSource has been an integral part of the show:

Rod Johnson was on stage with VMware CEO, Paul Maritz, for the opening keynote. Rod demonstrated some upcoming features of Hyperic HQ monitoring of virtual machines, STS tools for the cloud and, of course, Cloud Foundry.

Seminar Series: Intro to SpringSource tc Server - New Dates Added

Back by popular demand, SpringSource has added new dates to the Intro to SpringSource tc Server Seminar Series discussing the enterprise version of Apache Tomcat. This free two-hour seminar will cover tc Server capabilities for:

Managing ... [More] large scale Tomcat deployments
Controlling distributed groups of Tomcat instances
Deploying enterprise applications reliably to production systems
Identifying, diagnosing, and resolving server problems quickly and efficienty

Sign up for the seminar in the city closest to you:

August 26th: Cambridge, MA
September 1st: Orlando, FL
September 2nd: Atlanta, GA
September 17th: Cincinnati, OH
September 29th: Denver, CO
September 20th: Dallas, TX [Less]

SpringSource University Presents: Discovery Days

A Day to Explore more, Experience more, and Learn more!

The SpringSource Discovery Days are 1-day intensive workshop-type sessions, in which our renowned technologists lead you through a wide array of exciting innovations within the Spring ... [More] Portfolio. The SpringSource Discovery Days combine theory with demos and examples so you can keep your knowledge up to date in one intense exploratory day.

Who Should Attend?
Anyone that is keen to be kept up to speed on applying modern Enterprise Java technologies and learning about best practices in doing so. The SpringSource University Discovery Days are tailored to fit the needs of developers and architects that need to extract most value out of the Spring Portfolio of products or technologies that are new and upcoming in the Java industry. Each day is packed with technology updates we think you will benefit from most.

During the Discovery Days students will learn:

Spring 3.0
Spring ROO
New Style Java Application Monitoring; getting more insight into your applications
OSGi When and how to modularize your application
Groovy & Grails Best Practices

Sign up now for the Discovery Days in the city closest to you:

October 05: London, United Kingdom
October 12: New York, NY
October 12: Sydney, Australia
October 26: Minneapolis, MN
October 26: München, Germany
November 02: Ottawa, ON
November 02: Amsterdam, Netherlands
November 23: Paris, France (in French)
November 30: Rome, Italy

Register Now for the early bird price, also see our register 2 students get the 3rd student for free special! [Less]

SpringSource Launches Cloud Foundry

As part of its continuing push to remove complexity from the enterprise Java application lifecycle SpringSource announced a new Enterprise Java Cloud offering that enables developers to deploy and manage Spring, Grails and Java applications within a ... [More] public cloud environment. SpringSource Cloud Foundry provides an easy-to-use self-service approach, enabling developers to deploy their applications in minutes using a simple web interface. It offers automation of common deployment blueprints and intelligent, SLA-driven resource allocation with automatic scaling and automatic infrastructure repair. Rod Johnson's blog post describes the background behind the technology and the Cloud Foundry website has a complete feature list for more details.

The technology behind SpringSource Cloud Foundry was created by the noted Java expert and highly regarded Spring community member, Chris Richardson. Chris and his team are now part of SpringSource and you can read his blog entry to learn more.

Watch the demonstration video and sign-up for an account to try out the Enterprise Java Cloud. [Less]

Spring 3.0.0 Milestone 4 Now Available

This release got overshadowed by some of the recent news this week, but I want to tell the community that Spring 3.0.0.M4 is now available.

Download | Reference Documentation | Change Log

This release includes some documentation ... [More] changes, updated OSGi manifest information, a number of other improvements, along with some small revisions to supported frameworks like Hibernate, Tiles and others. Thank you to all of the dedicated community members that have given feedback and identified issues. [Less]

SpringSource Joins Forces with VMware

Today SpringSource announced that it is being acquired by VMware, the global leader in virtualization solutions from the desktop to the datacenter. Rod Johnson covers the details of the acquisition in his blog post: SpringSource: Chapter Two. In ... [More] particular, he gives a special message to the community:

Sleep easy – our commitment to open source practices, licenses and traditions will remain unchanged. We expect our contributions to open source to increase. Our open source projects will retain their commitment to enabling user choice. Spring will retain the portability between deployment environments that empowers users.

The combination of the two companies will provide some incredibly exciting technology and make development for cloud based solutions even easier. Congratulations to Rod and all the SpringSource technologists that have worked so hard to deliver great technology and build a successful business. Feel free to discuss the news in the community forums. [Less]