SpringSource Newsletter - April 2010, EMEA

SpringSource INewsletter

SpringSource S2G Forum - London and Amsterdam

Attendees at SpringSource S2G Forum Seminar take a break

Seats are still available for the SpringSource S2G Forums in London and Amsterdam. Rod Johnson, creator of Spring, is headlining this packed event. With three tracks and over 15 sessions to choose from, this one-day event will give developers, engineers and IT managers the latest information about enterprise Java technology. Attend sessions on Spring technologies, enterprise production systems, Groovy & Grails, virtualization and the cloud. From development to the datacenter and into the cloud, the S2G Forum is the optimal way to learn how to build and run tomorrow’s applications today.

Amsterdam: May 11, 2010 Register Here
London: May 13, 2010 Register Here


tc Server 2.0 is Now Available

The tc Server team is pleased to announce the availability of SpringSource tc Server 2.0. This release is a major step forward for tc Server, now integrated with Hyperic HQ 4.2 and enabling data center wide application performance monitoring and management. Version downloads are available at:

And tc Server 2.0 documentation is available at
http://static.springsource.com/projects/tc-server/2.0/index.html


SpringSource Acquires Rabbit Technologies: Open Source Messaging System Ideal for Cloud Computing

RabbitMQ

On April 13, 2010, SpringSource announced that VMware acquired Rabbit Technologies Ltd., an open source software company based in the United Kingdom. SpringSource will add the RabbitMQ open messaging system into its suite of technologies, reducing the complexity associated with the development, deployment and management of enterprise applications.

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Webcast: Introducing VMforce…

Join industry leaders Marc Benioff, chairman & CEO of salesforce.com, and Paul Maritz, president & CEO of VMware, for a live Webcast where they will make an exciting joint product announcement on the future of cloud computing.
Date: April 27, 2010
Time: 10:30 AM PDT
Register Now


Live Webinar: What’s New in SpringSource Tool Suite?

Join Christian Dupuis, to learn about the latest features that have been added to SpringSource Tool Suite (STS), including Spring Roo support, support for Groovy and Grails-based application development, deploying to virtualized targets and dedicated support for Spring Integration as well as other Spring projects. STS provides the best Eclipse-powered development environment for building Spring-powered enterprise applications.

Europe: April 22, 3:00pm BST / 4:00pm CET Register Now
North America: April 22, 1:00pm EDT / 10:00am PDT Register Now


Spring Web Flow 2.0.9 Released

SpringSource is pleased to announce that Spring Web Flow 2.0.9 is now available. The release includes minor bug fixes and an update to the version of Dojo that addresses a Dojo security vulnerability. In addition to the 2.0.x maintenance, the Web Flow project team is currently working on a 2.1 release that provides a current generation version of Web Flow that builds on Spring 3. And work continues toward the first 3.0 milestone for the next generation of Web Flow.

Download | Reference Documentation | Change Log


Flash Builder

Flash Builder Release with
Spring Blaze DS Support

Adobe recently announced the launch of Flex 4 and Flash Builder 4. Along with data-centric development features (including services introspection, value objects and service stubs generation), Flex 4’s Spark component model enables a new level of collaboration between Designers and Developers. For the launch, Adobe has also updated the Spring Blaze DS related content, including:

Also, Christophe Conraets’ recently blogged about the pre-configured Test Drive Server that he put together.


Live Webinar: Managing and Monitoring Spring Applications

The ability to effectively manage and monitor custom-built Java Spring applications is more critical than ever as these applications become increasingly prevalent—and critical to achieving business outcomes. The good news for application operators is that with Spring, operational management and control elements are built-in, thereby greatly simplifying the monitoring and management of these custom applications. During this webinar you will learn about the key metrics Spring applications expose and leverage including metrics for operating systems, application server, data, database and Spring applications.

North America:May 13, 2010, 1:00pm EDT / 10:00am PDT Register Now


Spring on VMware Promotion

Two Free CPUs of tc Server Spring Edition with vSphere Purchase

If you are a VMware customer and your organization makes a vSphere, vCenter, View or ThinApp product family purchase (license only) between March 8th and May 8th, 2010, you are entitled to two Free CPU licenses of tc Server Spring Edition. See promotional offer for more details.


Case Study: The Rackspace Cloud Automates Monitoring of 1,000+ Server with SpringSource Hyperic

The Rackspace Cloud, a division of Rackspace Hosting based in San Antonio, Texas, provides on-demand scalable website, application and storage hosting, enabling developers and IT managers to minimize the hassles, investments and ongoing costs associated with dedicated hardware, while offering the ability to cost-effectively scale hosting resources.

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Join us for a live demo of tc Server or Hyperic

Interested in seeing SpringSource tc Server or Hyperic in action? Join us for a live demo, every Monday where engineers will walk you through the products in depth. These are live, interactive demos where you can ask questions and give feedback. Register now.

tc Server Demo: Mondays at 1:00pm GMT/14:00 CET Register Now
Hyperc Demo: Mondays at 3:00pm GMT/16:00 CET Register Now

 

ISSUE 18 | 4-2010

In This Issue

SpringSource S2G Forum - London and Amsterdam
tc Server 2.0 is Now Available
SpringSource Acquires
Rabbit Technologies
Webcast: Introducing VMforce…
Live Webinar: What’s New in SpringSource Tool Suite?
Spring Web Flow 2.0.9 Released
Flash Builder Release with Spring Blaze DS Support
Live Webinar: Managing and Monitoring Spring Applications
Spring on VMware
Customer Offer
Case Study:
The Rackspace Cloud
Join us for a live demo of tc Server or Hyperic

Latest Software Releases

SpringSource tc Server 2.0
Spring Web Flow 2.0.9 Released
Spring Python 1.1.0.RC1 Released

Recorded Webinars

SpringSource tc Server: The Best Place to Build and Run Spring Applications

Introducing Roo: Extreme Productivity in 10 minutes

Best Practices for Managing and Monitoring Custom Applications with Hyperic HQ

Associated Newspapers: a tc Server Case Study

VMware + SpringSource: What Does it Mean to You 

SpringSource University

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