Technical Article

Thierry Templier has written an article about accessing IBM's CICS mainframe applications using J2CA resource adapters and Spring's CCI support subsystem. Read the article here.

In Spring 1.2’s Java 5 Based Transaction Annotations, I give an overview of the Java 5+ compatible transaction Annotations that were officially introduced with Spring 1.2.

Construction d'une application MVC distribuée avec Spring Remoting, which roughly translates to "Design of a distributed MVC application with Spring Remoting") is a comprehensive (54 page) article by Serge Tahé, in French.

Better J2EEing with Spring is an article by Peter Brasswell, it introduces Inversion of Control and the Spring Framework. It's featured on BEA's dev2dev.

In Spring instance management part II - hotswapping (!) and mixins for pooling, Alef Arendsen continues a previous article on the topic, focusing on performance, getting some statistics, and hot-swapping.

Message-Driven POJOs is a detailed blog entry by Craig Walls which explores the Spring-based, JMS, 'message-driven POJOs' available as part of the ActiveMQ codebase. This code effectively tries to replicate EJB MDB functionality, in plain java objects configured via Spring.

Update 2005-7-22: part 2, Message-driven POJOs revisited, is now available. 

Colin's note: while this code is part of the ActiveMQ codebase, when talking to James Strachan in mid-May 2005 about it, James mentioned that while the code has been used and tested mostly with ActiveMQ, there is nothing inherently ActiveMQ-specific about it. Usage with other JMS servers will at a minimum require testing and verification.

M2VC, un moteur MVC pour des applications GUI Java is a comprehensive (37 page) article in French, by Serge Tahé. It details a web MVC style framework built on Swing, backed by Spring for object management and general IoC.

Construction d'une application swing MVC à trois couches avec Spring (which roughly translates to "Construction of a three layer MVC swing application with Spring") is a comprehensive (49 page) article by Serge Tahé, in French.

Here is the Spring article written by Sergei Aleksandrov in Russian
language. Read article
 

In this first part of a multi-part series, Keith Donald looks at the process of building a slice of a business system "the Spring way", noting how to achieve several important design goals that enable you to write cleaner, more testable code.  Read Spring by Example.