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I just got an email from Appie with the following text
ANY PLATFORM, ANY LANGUAGE, ANYWHERE
Why are the hottest new applications being developed on the Mac? Because the Intel-based Mac lets you easily develop for virtually any platform, language, and programming environment. And now, you can test and run applications on UNIX, Linux, and even Windows, […]

Basing your business around open-source is pretty tough sometimes, but it all becomes worth it when you get a private forum message like this:
“You guys are clowns for making me register to be able to browse your archives.
CLOWNS.” –AnnoyedInSF
Of course, this genius couldn’t figure out that in fact you don’t have to […]

EclipseCon have graciously offered Spring Framework one of the 10 ‘pods’ in the open-source pavilion at EclipseCon 2006. The closest tie right now between Spring and Eclipse is probably the Spring-IDE plugin for Eclipse (also used as the basis for Spring support in MyEclipse IDE), but you can also expect to see some Spring integration […]

I find it a little bit distressing how few Java developers understand that using JTA does not automatically get you XA/Two-Phase-Commit capabilities.
Here we’ve got Matt Raible, who really should know better, or at least should not be blogging about it, posting on Two Phase Commit in Tomcat with JOTM and Spring. Somebody flew out to […]

I was reading Diego Parilla’s Spring is not designed for scalability, and simply had to respond. I actually first wrote a comment directly on his blog, but I guess he’s not going to allow the comment to be posted, as some other stuff has appeared but not mine, after a number of hours…
(Edited […]

I’m here in North Miami for the Spring Experience 2005, which kicked off last night with a dinner followed by a keynote talk, during which Spring 2.0 M1 was announced. The room was packed, at around 270+ people. It was incredibly gratifying to look around at that room full of Spring enthusiasts and think about […]

Spring 1.2.6 was released yesterday. Thanks to Juergen and Rob for the coding heroics over the last while to get this out.
At this time CVS HEAD is now dedicated to Spring 1.3 development, and over the course of this week, we’ll move already prepared 1.3 features from the sandbox over to the main […]

I’m really pleased to announced that I’ve checked in the initial code into Spring Web Flow’s CVS, for seamlessly integrating with JSF.
The integration code, which was developed in collaboration with Craig McClanahan and Keith Donald, is still somewhat preliminary and needs some polish and tweaking before final release as part of Web Flow 1.0. That […]

I was in San Jose last week and spent the first half focused on BEAWorld, where BEA and Interface21 showed off the fruits of the collaboration announced a few months ago at JavaOne.
I had a blast talking to people about Spring on WLS, and taking part in a panel discussion one day and a technical […]

Spring has from the beginning provided a powerful transaction abstraction. This abstraction provides several key benefits:

Allows you to specify transaction demaraction policies for your code, either declaratively or programatically.
Abstracts away the low-level transaction manager with a common transaction management abstraction, allowing for you to change TX strategies (for example, JTA (global) vs. local transactions) without […]

On May 25th, the Los Angeles Java Users Group will hold a special meeting where I’ll be presenting on the Spring Framework.
Since there are still a decent number of people without hands-on Spring Framework experience, I’ll for the most part be doing a general Spring overview which walks through most of the features, and should […]

Spring Framework 1.2 final is out. This release definitely has a focus on persistence related enhancements. Read the announcement here.

The new alias tag in Spring’s XML bean definition format makes using Spring in a (lightweight) component oriented fashion significantly easier.
Spring has always had the ability to assign multiple IDs to components (via combined usage of the id and name attributes) which made it possible to link up components somewhat. Consider a library called ComponentA. […]

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, […]

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 […]

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.

Spring Framework 1.1.2 has been relased.
Take a look at the announcement for major new features. There is also a more detailed full changelog.
As always, thanks to Juergen for the packaging gruntwork.

Darren Davison’s Beandoc tool for getting a better view of a Spring application context is way cool!:
http://www.davison.uk.net/beandoc/
This is definitely worth including with Spring or as a related project.
Here’s his spring-developer mail list comment about it:
I’ve done a bit of work on a tool to document and graph context files. It
still needs some work in […]

Here’s the announcement and more detailed changelog.
Thanks to Juergen for the packaging work (never mind his coding prowess ).

Filed under the “I feel like screaming” category… While I was away (of course it had to happen then) for a couple of weeks in Romania and had dial-up access at best, some porn spam robot started hitting the Spring forums (which run on phpBB), and registering bogus users, at the rate of several per […]