Interface21 have made available a new white paper on the topic of "Spring in Production." 

There's lots of documentation available on Spring's programming and configuration models, but very little written to date that explains what Spring does at runtime and how it manages the request processing pipeline. In this white paper you'll learn about the Spring kernel and the enterprise services layer that sits on top of it, and how these co-operate to manage Spring-powered applications. The white paper also contains a section on tuning Spring-powered applications. I asked many of my colleagues at Interface21 for their hints and tips on how to get the most out of a Spring-powered application in a production setting, and this priceless advice is distilled into over 25 recommendations and suggestions. In this part of the white paper you will:

• learn how to establish an effective blueprint for your application that takes full advantage of your deployment platform
• discover many tips for creating effective application designs in both OLTP and batch scenarios, and
• pick up some great ideas on exposing configuration data through JMX and for integrating statistics into your testing

I encourage you to download a copy of the white paper now and let us know what you think. Interface21 white papers are freely available, but we do ask that you register your interest first.