News and Announcements  

Dear Spring Community,

We are pleased to announce that Spring .NET 1.1.1 has been released.  

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This is primarily a bugfix and enhancement release but some minor new features were introduced:

• ParameterValidationAdvice to validate method arguments.
• A Required attribute and RequiredObjectFactoryPostProcessor for enforcing the configuration of required properties.
• ASP.NET Panel control to disable DI on custom user controls.

Dear Spring community,

I'm pleased to announce that Spring Framework 2.5.3 has been released!  Download | Documentation

This is the third update release in the Spring 2.5 series. It fixes issues reported since 2.5.2 and introduces various enhancements, such as:

• @Autowired and @Required annotations interact more intuitively
• ControllerClassNameHandlerMapping detects @Controller beans by default
• "bean(...)" pointcut designator matches against bean aliases as well
• Spring 2.5 "jee:*" config elements use resource-ref="true" by default
• new CachingConnectionFactory for JMS session and producer pooling
• new DB2MainframeSequenceMaxValueIncrementer for DB2/390 and DB2/400

Please see the changelog for details. We recommend upgrading to Spring 2.5.3 from all previous Spring 2.5.x releases!

Spring Security 2.0.0 RC1 is now available.

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Over 65 issues have been addressed, including OpenID integration, a new "protect-pointcut" for AspectJ expressions, dynamic retrieval of method authorization metadata, support for method authorization on all method types (interface, class, bridge, generic, superclass), restful URI authorization, namespace improvements, dependency updates and much more!

Dear Spring community,
I'm pleased to announce that Spring Web Services 1.5.0 has been released!

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This final release candidate the following new features over 1.0.3:

• Two new transports: JMS and email, both for client and server,
  
• WSS4J-based WS-Security implementation, which allows for WS-Security on non-SUN JDKs (i.e. WebSphere) and JDK 1.4,
• WS-Addressing support for both client and server, supporting the August 2004 and final versions of the specification,
  
• Native support for Java 6, including JAXP 1.4, and the bundled SAAJ 1.3 and JAXB 2.0,
  
• Two new Spring namespaces, which drastically decrease the amount of XML required to configure marshallers and typical Spring-WS constructs,
  
• Spring-WS jars are now OSGi bundles,
  
• A new, client-side interception mechanism, including WS-Security support,
  
• @Endpoints are now @Components, so they are automatically picked up when using Spring 2.5 component scanning
• A new and improved XSD-to-WSDL generator that inlines included and imported XSDs
• Support for Spring Security
• Support for the Java 6 HTTP Server
• Two new samples, showing Plain Old XML usage and WS-Addressing with the Java 6 HTTP server

and many small improvements and bug fixes. Check the changelog for more details.

We recommend upgrading to Spring Web Services 1.5 from all previous versions, in order to benefit from these new features!

The 1.5 series is 95% backwards compatible, though support for Java 1.3 has been dropped, in favor of Java 1.6.

Cheers,

Arjen Poutsma
Spring Web Services Lead

SpringSource Advanced Pack for Oracle Database allows enterprise Java applications using the Spring Portfolio to leverage powerful features only available in the Oracle database. The Advanced Pack does this without code changes to the Spring Beans running in the application. Features include:

• Oracle RAC "Fast Connection Failover" support
• Oracle Streams Advanced Queuing support
• Oracle XML type and Advanced Data Type support
• Customizable Oracle DB connection environment

Be sure to sign up, try it out and give us feedback. 

Dear Spring community,
I'm pleased to announce that Spring Dynamic Modules for OSGi(tm) Service Platforms (formerly known as Spring OSGi) 1.0.2 has been released.

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There are some exciting new webinars in April for users of the Spring Framework.

• On April 2nd, 2008 Christian Dupuis will present an Introduction to SpringSource Tool Suite which will show developers how to get started using the new Eclipse based IDE that is designed specifically for building Spring applications.
• On April 8th, 2008 Mitch Ferguson will present a SpringSource Partner Program Overview which will discuss how partners building solutions based on Spring can become better integrated.

Sign up for these and other interesting events at the webinar page where you can also watch archived recordings of  previous webinars.  

SpringSource Application Management Suite (AMS) is a comprehensive enterprise application management tool designed specifically to manage and monitor Spring-powered applications. Using intelligent monitoring aspects and remote JMX, AMS collects and reports lots of performance and management information. You don't even have to change any of your Spring code to turn it on!    

Be sure to sign up, try it out and give us feedback.

Today at EclipseCon 2008 we announced the Public Beta Program of the SpringSource Tool Suite. The SpringSource Tool Suite provides the best possible environment for building any Spring-based application and packages the expertise of SpringSource consultants in easy to use tools:

• Task Focused Tutorials
• Best Practice Guides
• Anti-pattern Detection
• Runtime Error Resolution 

Be sure to sign up for the Beta Program and try it out.

I'm pleased to announce that Spring Batch 1.0.0.rc1 has been released.  You can access this release via the Spring Maven Milestone Repository (browse) or via the Download Page.

This is the first release candidate for the Spring Batch 1.0.0 release with an anticipated final release on 28 March.  The major changes for this release are:

• Improvements in Reference Documentation
• Reorganization of packaging structure in spring-batch-infrastructure and spring-batch-core
• Merging of the spring-batch-core and spring-batch-execution modules

Please see the changelog for details.

Ben Hale
Spring Batch Technical Lead
SpringSource