News & Events

Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This week I'm back in India (in Bangalore and in Pune) along with other Cloud Foundry ninjas on the Cloud Foundry Open Tour India! I am looking forward to talking to people about building Spring applications for Cloud Foundry. Also don't miss the Spring, Groovy and Grails event of the year in Washington, DC: SpringOne2GX. If you haven't already registered for these two events, now's the time!

1. Michael Isvy has a nice post on using Spring MVC and jQuery to handle client-side validation. Nicely done, Michael!
2. Chris Schaefer has a great post on his Spring Batch AMQP ItemReader and ItemWriter implementations that were just merged into Spring Batch 2.2.0! Congratulations, and thank you, Chris!
3. Doug Haber put together a really nice post on how those powerful @Enable* annotations in Spring 3.1 Java configuration work. Definitely worth a read if you want to know more.
4. Neale at the FuzzyDB blog has a only faintly Spring-centric post which might nevertheless be of use to many of you: how to setup desktop icon launchers for SpringSource Tool Suite on Ubuntu!
5. Andriy Redko has a nice post on using a debugging framework called BTrace to inspect and debug performance of a Spring MongoDB application. Again, this is only faintly useful to a Spring developer by default, but it's nice have tools that much.
6. One neat little gem inside the Spring framework is the @Required annotation, which checks that all bean properties that have the annotation are configured with a value at runtime. Srinivas Rao has a nice post on using the @Required annotation to defensively check bean configuration at runtime, and how to turn on the processing of the annotation.
7. The Hitchhiker's Guide to Java blog has an interesting (and strange and appealingly worded!) post on how to setup Hibernate using Spring, and eschew hibernate.cfg.xml.
8. Blogger Brian has an interesting post on how to set up the Quartz job scheduling engine using Spring. Nicely done, Brian!
9. The Learning the Code Way blog has a very nice post on how to use Spring's various *Template and *DaoSupport implementations in your data access logic.
10. The Technical Notes blog has a very simple code walkthroug introducing how to bootstrap Spring MVC by relying @EnableWebMvc Java configuration annotation.