Archive for March, 2005

Spring Framework 1.2RC1 Released

Posted on March 28th, 2005 in General, Spring. No comments.

I’m very pleased to announce that Spring Framework 1.2RC1 is now available for download! Thanks again to Juergen for all the gruntwork packaging things up.
While this is only a Release Candidate, and you can expect (despite the name) that at least one or two other Release Candiate builds will come out before 1.2 final, […]

Ivy is everything Maven should have/could have been 2.5 years ago

Posted on March 10th, 2005 in General, Spring. 5 comments.

I’ve been working with an ant-based dependency management tool called Ivy:
http://www.jayasoft.fr/org/modules/ivy/overview.php
We’ve been talking about restructuring the Spring Framework source layout at some point relatively soon (although it almost certainly won’t happen for 1.2), so that the individual components of Spring each have their own source level projects, instead of living under one big fat project […]

Horrific TSS Symposium Network Connectivity

Posted on March 3rd, 2005 in General. No comments.

The wireless network connectivity here at the TSS Symposium is simply unbelievably bad. Signal strength is consistently good, but much (most) of the time, you can not connect, or once you have a connection, you can count on it being unusable after a few minutes. I think it’s a matter of just too much contention […]

Spring BOF at TSS Symposium 2005

Posted on March 1st, 2005 in General, Spring. 1 comment.

If you’re attending The ServerSide Symposium 2005, and you’re interested in Spring, you might want to attend the Spring BOF on Friday night (the 4th) at 7:30:
http://symposiumwiki.theserverside.com/tsswiki/display/symposium2005/Meetings+and+BOFS
This is a chance to meet most of the core Spring developers (Juergen being the big exception, unfortunately), and talk about new features and Spring in general.