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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.

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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]

Spring Web Flow 2.0.8 Released

Dear Spring Community,

I am pleased to announce that the Spring Web Flow 2.0.8 release is now available.

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This release includes a number of small bug fixes and minor ... [More] improvements, along with a few updates to the documentation. We would like to extend a sincere thanks to our active and dedicated community, as several of the issues were resolved with the help of community-contributed patches.

Jeremy Grelle
Spring Web Products Team [Less]

Now Available: SpringSource Tool Suite 2.1.0 and dm Server 2.0 Milestone 4

Today SpringSource has released two updates to the most popular parts of the build-run-manage application lifecycle.

SpringSource Tool Suite 2.1.0 is now GA and ready for download. Christian Dupuis' blog post covers all the new features ... [More] included in the best development tool for building Spring powered applications:

Eclipse 3.5 (Galileo) support and platform specific installers for Windows/Mac OS X/Linux
Support for milestones of Spring 3.0 including XML editing and validation, support for @Configuration and @Bean annotations
Support for milestones of SpringSource dm Server 2.0, RFC66 web modules and SpringSource Bundlor integration
Integration of Spring Roo for rapid application development
Optional integration of the new alpha Groovy Eclipse Plugin

Also, Milestone 4 of SpringSource dm Server 2.0 is now available. This latest version of the modular OSGi-based application server adds:

Enchancements to the admin console
Improved OSGi serviceability through Medic
Support for deploying properties files through the console and the pickup directory

Enjoy these great products and give your feedback and questions through the community forums. [Less]

Spring.NET 1.3.0 RC1 Released

Dear Spring Community,

We are pleased to announce that Spring .NET 1.3.0 is
now available.  

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| Support
| Documentation
| Community

This release contains the following new ... [More] major features:

Micosoft
Test Framework integration -
Integration test classes to support MSTest in addition to NUnit.
TIBCO
EMS integration
- Helper classes to increase your productivity developing messaging
based applications with TIBCO EMS.
NVelocity
integration - Helper classes to
configure a NVelocity template engine in a Spring based application
VS.NET
Solution Templates
- VS.NET 2008 based solution templates to get you up and running
quickly creating Spring based applications.
DI
support for Enterprise Service Components

Other notable new features:

NHibernate 2.1
and ActiveMQ NMS 1.1 support.
Updated and
documented NHibernate 2.1 QuickStart
application.
Spring based
NHibernate ByteCode
provider to support DI for NH
entities.

This release includes approximately 100  bug fixes
and enhancements since the 1.2.0 release. 

Please refer to the changelog
for
additional details.

Enjoy! [Less]

Seminar Series: Intro to SpringSource tc Server

Enterprise Tomcat is here and you can learn how to use it effectively in your enterprise! SpringSource is running a series of seminars in North America outlining SpringSource tc Server, an enterprise version of Apache Tomcat. This free two-hour ... [More] seminar will cover tc Server capabilities for:

Managing 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:

July 28th: Seattle, WA
July 29th: Phoenix, AZ
July 30th: San Mateo, CA
August 5th: Toronto, Canada & Columbia/Ft. Meade, MD
August 11th: St Louis, MO
August 13th: Omaha, NE
August 19th: Raleigh, NC
August 20th: Cincinnati, OH
August 25th: Chicago, IL

There is also an additional special seminar Monitoring & Managing Your Web Application Infrastructure in Los Angeles, CA on August 4th. [Less]

SpringOne 2GX 2009 Schedule Updated



New sessions have been added to 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, SpringOne 2GX attendees will have the ... [More] opportunity to attend two great events at one venue. Spring Web session highlights include:

Overview of Spring 3.0 Web Stack - Keith Donald
Implementing REST Web Application Architectures with Spring MVC - Arjen Poutsma
Introducing Spring Roo: extreme productivity in 10 minutes - Ben Alex
Modular Web Applications with OSGi - Rob Harrop

Check out the full schedule and take a look at all of the Groovy & Grails sessions too. Be sure to register before August 1st for the early sign up discount. [Less]

Spring Roo 1.0.0.RC1 Released

Spring Roo 1.0.0.RC1 has now been released. Spring Roo provides interactive, lightweight, user customizable tooling that enables rapid delivery of high performance enterprise Java applications

The new 1.0.0.RC1 release contains around fifty ... [More] fixes and enhancements, including:

Bundlor project support (written by Adrian Colyer)
Extra developer support on Windows (thanks to Rod Johnson)
Support for relationships in dynamic finders
Default error handlers for web applications
DataSource improvements (now DBCP by default, plus JNDI support)
No more beeps from the Roo shell under Windows
Enhanced development mode diagnostic information

You can download this new release via the Community Download page. [Less]

Spring Roo 1.0.0.RC1 Released

Spring Roo 1.0.0.RC1 has now been released. Spring Roo provides interactive, lightweight, user customizable tooling that enables rapid delivery of high performance enterprise Java applications The new 1.0.0.RC1 release contains around fifty fixes ... [More] and enhancements, including:

Bundlor project support (written by Adrian Colyer)
Extra developer support on Windows (thanks to Rod Johnson)
Support for relationships in dynamic finders
Default error handlers for web applications
DataSource improvements (now DBCP by default, plus JNDI support)
No more beeps from the Roo shell under Windows
Enhanced development mode diagnostic information

You can download this new release via the Community Download page. [Less]

Spring Integration 1.0.3 Released

Dear Spring Community,

I am pleased to announce that the Spring Integration 1.0.3 release is now available.

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In addition to the links above, check out this blog post to get up ... [More] and running with our new-and-improved, self-contained, Maven-enabled samples!

Mark Fisher
Spring Integration Lead [Less]