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Tushar Joshi has authored an article titled "Introduction to Spring IDE 2.0". The article describes the required steps and dependencies to install Spring IDE and demos some basic features of version 2.0.

Tushar concludes his article by stating that: "Spring IDE provides features like Spring Explorer, Beans Cross Reference, Graph View and Code completion in the bean XML editor hence making the life of a Spring Framework user easier." #

In this infoQ interview recorded at The Spring Experience in December 2006, Spring Web Flow co-lead Keith Donald talks about how Spring Web Flow works, the abstractions modelled in Web Flow, support for the back button, continuations, how state is saved across web requests, how an existing app may be refactored to use web flows, and how Web Flow interact with web frameworks like Struts, Spring MVC, and JSF at runtime.

Using AJAX (via DWR) to perform client-side validation is a useful technique that allows the implementation of both client side and server side form validation, while actually using the same (server-side) validators for both task. Here are a couple of articles that describe this technique.

Generic Validator for Spring MVC and DWR by Jose Noheda, shows one approach. His validators work off annotations in the objects to be validated (this is somewhat orthogonal to the question of validating remotely).

Peter Thomas's session on Java EE Architecture with the Spring Framework from the IndicThreads.com Conference On Java Technology (2006) has been posted. Peter talks about an app using Spring for Dependency Injection, it's DAO and Hibernate Support, AOP and declarative transaction support, Spring MVC with Web Flow, and Acegi Security. The presentation may be heard at the link above, while a PDF is available here.

Tareq Abed Rabbo blogs on his experience  migrating an Axis 1.x based web service to Spring-WS in this blog entry. It makes for interesting reading as there's quite a bit of detail here.

Google Web Toolkit. Integration with Spring Framework is a useful little roundup of articles showing different ways to integraton Spring and Google Web Toolkit.

Spring 2.0 introduced the ability to add custom XML namespaces to Spring, essentially specialized dialects of XML usable in a Spring Application Context. It shipped with a number of new namespaces out of the box, such as jee, aop, tx, util, and others. Recent Spring IDE 2.0.x builds have supported the new built-in custom namespaces. In Adding Support for Custom Namespaces, Christian Dupuis shows how to enable Spring IDE to recognize and support your own custom namespaces.

Unitils is an interesting new open source project trying to make unit testing as easy and maintainable as possible. Together with their 1.0 RC1 release the Unitils team have published Testing Spring - Hibernate applications with Unitils which illustrates using Unitils in a typical Spring/Hibernate application. The way Unitils integrates with DbUnit and automagically does test database maintenance is particularly interesting.

Integrating Java Content Repository and Spring is a detailed infoQ article by Costin Leau which first talks about the Java Content Repository (JCR) spec in general, and then shows how the JCR support in Spring Modules provides a number of benefits when working against any repository supporting the JCR standard.

Messaging Interop with JMS & Spring.NET, an infoQ article by Spring Java and Spring.NET developer Mark Pollack, is a detailed article which shows how to achivev interop between Java and .NET, by using JMS and the JMS support classes in the respective frameworks.