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Martin Maier has written a diploma thesis on Spring and Dependency Injection, at the polytechnical university FH Joanneum in Austria (in German language). The original title is: "Das Spring Framework als Teil eines Paradigmenwechsels? Vergleich der leichtgewichtigen Alternative zur traditionellen J2EE Entwicklung" ("The Spring Framework as part of a paradigm shift? Comparison of the lightweight alternative to traditional J2EE development"). The PDF document is available from http://www.martinmaier.name/archives/5

Part 4 in a series at DeveloperWorks, 1-2-3 messaging with Spring JMS by Naveen Balani introduces the JMS-related features in the Spring Framework (v1.2). The example application is shown in an IBM WebSphere MQ environment.

The article Spring Integration with WebLogic Server, by Andy Piper, Rod Johnson, Chris Wall and Nick Tran introduces features of the Spring Framework, WebLogic Server, and the integration of the two.

WebLogic Server's core value proposition is in areas not covered by the J2EE specification—enhanced management, ease-of-use, high availability, scalability, reliability, and performance.  This article highlights the server's features in those areas and its integration with the Spring Framework.

Java Developer's Journal September 2005 issue includes an article by Kishore Kumar titled "Spring Web Flow - The promise of handling complex page navigations in any Web application".  See http://jdj.sys-con.com/general/currentcover.htm for more.

Keith Donald presented on "Managing Web Conversations with Spring Web Flow" at JavaZone in Oslo, Norway on Thursday, September 15th, 2005.

In this presentation, Keith addresses Spring's positioning in the web framework market and the architecture of Spring Web Flow, a breakthrough technology for the definition and execution of web conversations.

Also, in a related article, Keith explores how webflows may act as "mini application modules", demonstrating a new feature that improves upon a flow's modularity inspired by the JavaZone attendees. 

Learn how to develop MVC-based applications using the Spring framework, in this third installment of developerWorks's popular Spring series. Read the article.

Lucas Jellema writes a detailed blog entry on how a Spring JDBC based business service may be registered as a Data Control in the Oracle ADF binding framework. To quote, "Once that DataControl is registered, it cannot be discerned from other POJO based DataControls and it can be used just as easy as in most cases as the ADF BC based Data Controls. That means: rapidly developing web applications, largely through dragging and dropping Data Controls and their components in a WYSIWYG style visual editor becomes a reality."

Steven Devijver writes a blog entry on how to use the Mule messaging platform and Spring to process email messages in an easy fashion.

R. J. Lorimer writes about Spring AOP and also about integration with Aspect J in an article on Javalobby.

R.J. Lorimer writes a JavaLobby Tips & Tricks entry on Locating Application Relative Resources. Note that as of Spring v1.2.4, Spring's Resource abstraction, which is somewhat like a URL on steroids, is fully documented in its own chapter in the Spring Reference manual.