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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 […]

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 ).

There’s already a lot of buzz around the leaked information that the JSR-220 (EJB 3) expert group will now be joined by a number of key JDO people, and will be producing a spec for a persistence API which runs both in an EJB container (as before) and outside (J2SE).
I think having a good, standard, […]

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 […]

For legacy reasons, mandated technology reasons, or the need to do clustered remote access, a number of people do need to use EJBs with Spring, whether they want to or not.
The existing ejbtest integration test app under the autobuilds directory in the Spring source tree was originally created to be used for integration level testing […]

After a lot of late nights, www.springframework.com is now live!
Here’s our press release:
Interface21 To Provide Expert Spring Framework Consulting, Training, and Support
I am really excited. This is such a win-win situation for Spring users and developers.

(Note: this post modified 2004-10-7 to reflect new ‘abstract’ attribute introduced with Spring 1.1.1 released on 2004-9-30).
People typically create transactional proxies for service interfaces in their Spring ApplicationContext definitions using either TransactionProxyFactoryBean or BeanNameAutoProxyCreator. This post details how enhancements for Spring 1.1 (included in the current v1.1RC1) allow defining transactional proxies in a much more […]

In early ‘97 I started reading Dave Winer’s Scripting News, considered by many to be the first or one of the first weblogs as we know them today, and from that time have wanted to set up some online presence for myself. So it only took me 7 years to get off my keister and […]