News and Announcements  

(updated 2007-11-22) 

SpringSource (formerly Interface21) is pleased to offer a number of Spring Framework 2.0 and AOP training events in the upcoming period, delivered by the people who build and sustain the Spring Framework. For full details, please visit the main training information page. Here is a summary of some of the upcoming courses and venues:

• North America
• Core Spring: November 6th - 9th, New York, NY
  
• Core Spring: November 13th - 16th, Dallas, TX
• Core Spring: November 27th - 30th, Washington, DC
  
• Core Spring: December 4th - 7th, San Diego, CA
• Core Spring: December 17th - 20th, Washington, DC
• Core Spring: December 17th - 20th, Boston, MA
  
• Core Spring: January 8th - 11th, Orlando, FL
• Core Spring: January 15th - 18th, Chicago, IL
  
• Core Spring: January 22nd - 25th, Seattle, WA
  
• Core Spring: January 29th - Feb 1st, Washington, DC (Dulles)
  

• Europe
• Core Spring: November 5th - 8th, Oslo, Norway
  
• Core Spring: November 6th - 9th, Paris, France
• Core AOP: November 15th - 16th, Malmo, Sweden
• Core Spring: November 20th - 23rd, Stuttgard, Germany
  
• Core Spring: November 20th - 23rd, Amsterdam, Netherlands
• Core Web Services: November 26th - 27th, Amsterdam, Netherlands
• Core Spring: November 27th - 30th, Copenhagen, Denmark
• Core AOP: December 6th - 7th, London, UK
• Core Spring: December 11th - 14th, London, UK
  
• Core Spring: January 15th - 18th, London, UK
  

• Australia/Asia/Other
  
• Core Spring: November 5th - 8th, Brisbane, Australia
  
• Core Spring: November 5th - 8th, New Delhi, India
• Core Spring: November 19th - 22nd, Bangalore, India
• Core Spring: November 20th - 23rd, Cheng Du, China
• Core Spring: December 3rd - 6th, Sydney, Australia
• Core Spring: December 10th - 13th, Melbourne, Australia
  
• Core Spring: December 18th - 21st, Dalian, China

... plus others

Interested in a full-course of Spring during Winter? The Spring Experience 2007 conference is taking place in sunny Hollywood, Florida, from Dec. 12th-15th.

Dear Spring Community,

We are pleased to announce the release of Spring LDAP version 1.2. This is a major release that introduces a number of features and bugfixes.

            Download | ChangeLog | Documentation (HTML) | Documentation (PDF) | API

A summary of the more important changes:

• Java 5 Generics support is now provided with the SimpleLdapTemplate and ParameterizedContextMapper classes.
• Client-side LDAP transactions.
• Several additional API methods, simplifying a number of common tasks.

Dear Spring community,

I'm pleased to announce that Spring Dynamic Modules for OSGi(tm) Service Platforms (formerly known as Spring OSGi) 1.0 M3 has been released.
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Dear Spring community,

I'm pleased to announce that Spring 2.0.7 has been released.

Spring 2.0.7 is a bug fix and minor enhancement release in the Spring 2.0 series, addressing all issues reported since 2.0.6 and backporting various refinements from 2.1 M4.

Please see the changelog and JIRA roadmap for all the details of the issues addressed in this release.

Juergen Hoeller
Lead, Spring Framework Development
Interface21 - http://www.interface21.com

We are pleased to announce that Spring Batch 1.0 M2 has been released! This milestone release introduces:

• A set of Core APIs that can be used for configuring and building batch applications.
• An execution environment and utilities for managing and monitoring multi-step jobs in a single virtual machine.
• Packaging the framework into three pieces: infrastructure, core and execution.

More details on the features of this release and plans for the future can be found on the website (http://static.springframework.org/spring-batch, http://static.springframework.org/spring-batch/features.html).

We expect at this point that there will be at least one more milestone release before a release candidate.  We are getting some great feedback from projects already using Spring Batch, and all this information will be used to refine the plan for the 1.0 and future releases.  You can track the plans for these stages on JIRA http://opensource.atlassian.com/projects/spring/browse/BATCH.

Dear Spring Community,

I'm pleased to announce that Spring Framework 2.1 M4 has been released! This milestone release introduces:

• 'qualifier' annotation support for choosing a specific @Autowired match;
• our next-generation Spring TestContext Framework with support for JUnit4;
• SimpleJdbcCall operation object for stored procedure calls;
• support for autowiring of scripted objects (Groovy, JRuby, BeanShell);
• support for Tiles2 views in Spring Web MVC.

 

Which leads me to some further exciting news...

We've been reviewing the overall set of features that we introduced in the recent 2.1 milestones:

• full Java 6 and Java EE 5 support
• full-featured annotation-driven dependency injection
• support for component scanning in the classpath
• "beanName" pointcut element in AspectJ pointcut expressions
• built-in support for AspectJ load-time weaving
• further XML configuration namespaces (context, jms)
• extended SimpleJdbcTemplate functionality
• officially certified WebSphere support
• Spring ApplicationContext can be deployed as RAR file
• JCA 1.5 message endpoint management (for JMS and CCI)
• completely revised framework for integration tests

We concluded that this goes significantly beyond what we originally planned for Spring 2.1. The version number 2.1, as used for the milestones, does not reflect the significance and the comprehensiveness of the features in this release.

So I'm pleased to announce that the next release will be called Spring Framework 2.5 RC1, with the 2.1 milestones seamlessly leading into Spring Framework 2.5 as the upcoming major release! Check out the Interface21 team blog for the official announcement and for upcoming posts on specific Spring 2.5 features as we move closer to the final release.

Spring 2.1 M4 is here. Long live Spring 2.5! :-)

Enjoy,

Juergen Hoeller
Lead, Spring Framework Development
Interface21 - http://www.interface21.com

Interface21 is pleased to offer a number of Spring Framework 2.0 and AOP training events in the upcoming period, delivered by the people who build and sustain the Spring Framework. For full details, please visit the main training information page. Here is a summary of some of the upcoming courses and venues:

• North America
• Core Spring: September 11th - 14th, Washington, DC (Dulles)
  
• Core Spring: September 18th - 21st, New York, NY
• Core Spring: September 25th - 28th, Seattle, WA
  
• Core Spring: October 2nd - 5th, Philadelphia, PA
  
• Core Spring: October 9th - 12th, Chicago, IL - NEW!
  
• Core Spring: October 23rd - 26th, Los Angeles, CA
• Core Spring: October 30th - November 2nd, Atlanta, GA
  
• Core Spring: November 6th - 9th, New York, NY
  
• Core Spring: November 13th - 16th, Dallas, TX
• Core Spring: November 27th - 30th, Washington, DC
  

• Europe
• Core Spring: September 11th - 14th, Paris, France
  
• Core Spring: September 18th - 21st, London, UK
  
• Core Spring: September 25th - 28th, Munich, Germany
• Core Spring: October 2nd - 5th, Antwerp, Belgium
• Core AOP: October 8th - 9th, Amsterdam, Netherlands
  
• Core Spring: October 9th - 12th, London, UK
• Core Spring: October 16th - 19th, Stockholm, Sweden
• Core Spring: October 23rd - 26th, Helsinki, Finland
• Core Spring: October 23rd - 26th, Hamburg, Germany
• Core Spring: October 30th - November 2nd, London, UK
  
• Core Spring: November 6th - 9th, Paris, France
• Core AOP: November 14th - 15th, Stockholm, Sweden
  
• Core Spring: November 20th - 23rd, Amsterdam, Netherlands
• Core Web Services: November 26th - 27th, Amsterdam, Netherlands
• Core Spring: November 27th - 30th, Copenhagen, Denmark
  

• Australia/Asia/Other
  
• Core Spring: September 18th - 21st, Beijing, China
• Core Spring: October 15th - 18th, Sydney, Australia
• Core Spring: October 22nd - 25th, Melbourne, Australia
• Core Spring: October 23rd - 26th, Shanghai, China
  
• Core Spring: Oct 29th - Nov 1st, Wellington, New Zealand
• Core Spring: November 5th - 8th, Brisbane, Australia
  
• Core Spring: November 5th - 8th, New Delhi, India
• Core Spring: November 19th - 22nd, Bangalore, India
• Core Spring: November 20th - 23rd, Cheng Du, China
  

... plus others

Spring Batch 1.0-m2-SNAPSHOT is available publicly (source code only for now) at sourceforge at https://springframework.svn.sourcefo...ng-batch/trunk. The m2 release proper is expected imminently. We think we can expect at least one more milestone release before we get to a release candidate. More detail, and a features list will be posted on the website at http://static.springframework.org/spring-batch.