News and Announcements  

TheServerSide has put up a video of a presentation that Bram Smeets did at the Ajax Experience last October, titled Ajax with the Spring Framework. Bram looks at different ways of tying your Spring middle tier to an Ajax front end. Some of the frameworks that he covers include, JASON-RPC for Java, DWR, GWT, Echo2 and TIBCO GI.

New version of the Eclipse plugin delivers Web Flow support, enhanced Spring 2.0 support

The Spring IDE team has released Spring IDE 2.0 M3, which among other new features includes the highly-anticipated Spring Web Flow graphical visualizer and editor.  The new support allows developers to edit XML-based flow definitions graphically, and enables greater productivity and communication with end users.

In addition to the graphical piece, Spring IDE 2.0 M3 also delivers a Web Flow XML editor that provides content assist and semantic validation to improve the quality of your flow definitions.

To illustrate the essence of some of these new features, consider the classic Master / Detail Search flow demonstrated by the Phonebook sample application:

Here is the same flow visualized with the new Spring IDE Web Flow editor:

In addition, when working with the flow definition, Spring IDE provides autocomplete for state identifiers:

... as well as autocomplete for beans in your web and application service layers:

A special thanks to Christian and the Spring IDE team for all their great work!

Dear Spring Community,

I am pleased to announce that Spring Modules (SM) 0.8 has been released. Downloads | Docs (Html , PDF) | JavaDocs

The new version contains the following notable features:

Dear Spring community,

We are pleased to announce that Spring 2.0.3 has been released.

This is a bugfix and enhancement release in the Spring 2.0 series, including about 200 (!) refinements and fixes. Furthermore, this release introduces support for the JSR-166 (java.util.concurrent) backport project and basic support for JCA 1.5 (ResourceAdapter bootstrap, WorkManager support), as well as extended support for IBM WebSphere and Oracle OC4J.

Among the noteworthy enhancements are DefaultMessageListenerContainer's dynamic scaling capability and the thoroughly revised scripting integration, supporting more styles of writing Groovy and BeanShell scripts and providing seamless interaction with Spring's AOP facilities. This release also includes refinements in the AspectJ pointcut support as well as in the scoped-proxy facility.

See the changelog for details!

Cheers,
Juergen
 
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Juergen Hoeller
Interface21 - http://www.interface21.com

Dear Spring community,

I'm pleased to announce that Spring 1.2.9 has finally been released. Download | Docs | Changelog.

This is a bugfix and refinement release for people still using the 1.2 series, and is intended as a drop-in update for Spring 1.2.8. It contains fixes for all problems reported since 1.2.8, and includes various backports from the Spring 2.0 branch.

Note that this is the last planned release in the Spring 1.2 branch. Patch releases for 1.2.9 will only be provided in case of critical issues. We recommend to upgrade to Spring 2.0 for long-term usage.

Cheers,
Juergen
 
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Juergen Hoeller
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: March 13th - 16th, Dallas, TX
• Core Spring: April 3rd - 6th, Washington, DC
• Core Spring: April 3rd - 6th, Seattle, WA
• Core Spring: April 17th-20th, Atlanta, GA
• Core AOP: April 24th - 27th, Seattle, WA
• Core Spring: May 1st - 4th, Philadelphia, PA
  
• Core Spring: May 15th - 18th, Washington, DC (Downtown)
  
• Core Spring: May 22nd - 25th, Chicago, IL
• Core AOP: May 22nd - 25th, Philadelphia, PA
  

• Europe/Asia/Australia
• Beginning Spring: March 13th - 15th, Amsterdamn, NL
• Core Spring: March 13th - 16th, Oslo, Norway
• Core Spring: March 19th - 22nd, Melbourne, Australia
• Core Spring: March 20th - 23rd, London, UK
• Core Spring: March 20th - 23rd, Antwerp, Belgium
• Core Spring: March 27th - 30th, Stockholm, Sweden
• Core AOP: April 2nd - 5th, London, UK
  
• Core Spring: April 10th - 13th, London, UK
  
• Core Spring: April 16th - 19th, Karlsruhe, Germany
  
• Core Spring: April 16th - 19th, Brisbane, Australia
  
• Core Spring: April 17th - 20th, Wellington, NZ
  
• Core Spring: April 17th - 20th, Rome, Italy
  
• Core Spring: April 30th - May 3rd, Canberra, Australia
  

... plus others

The version 4.0 of JSF-Spring has been released: Here is the announcement:
In our JSF projects, we’ve been greatly disappointed by two factors: the lack of “webness”, given the fact that everything is a POST, the dependency to JavaScript, and the often cumbersome JSF specification. On the other hand, features like the standard request lifecycle and form validation proved to be very useful.The new features in JSF-Spring 4.0 are our attempt to enable developers to take advantage of JSF as a component based framework but still deliver applications that conform to well established web standards: To the HTT protocol with it’s Noun/Verb model and the resulting REST model for web applications. You can find further details in the documentation on the JSF-Spring project: http://jsf-spring.sourceforge.net/reference/index.html. We’re very excited about the new perspectives for JSF-Spring and we hope you’ll share our enthusiasm!

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: February 6th - 9th, Los Angeles, CA
  
• Core Spring: February 20th - 23rd, Chicago, IL
• Core Spring: February 27th - March 2nd, Washington, DC
• Core Spring: March 6th - 9th, New York, NY
• Core Spring: March 13th - 16th, Dallas, TX
• NEW!: Core Spring: April 3rd - 6th, Washington, DC
• Core Spring: April 3rd - 6th, Seattle, WA
• Core Spring: April 17th-20th, Atlanta, GA
• Core AOP: April 24th - 27th, Seattle, WA

• Europe/Asia/Australia
• Core Spring: February 5th - 8th, Singapore
• Core AOP: February 6th - 9th, London, UK
• Core Spring: February 13th - 16th, Paris, France
  
• Core Spring: February 19th - 22nd, Sydney, Australia
• Core Spring: February 20th - 23rd, Amsterdamn, NL
• Core Spring: February 20th - 23rd, London, UK
• Beginning Spring: March 13th - 15th, Amsterdamn, NL
• Core Spring: March 19th - 22nd, Melbourne, Australia
• Core Spring: March 20th - 23rd, London, UK
• Core Spring: March 20th - 23rd, Antwerp, Belgium
• Core Spring: March 27th - 30th, Stockholm, Sweden
  

... plus others

The Sweden Spring User Group has been founded. The group will be backed by Jayway, the leading Java house in Sweden. The goal is to arrange activities and seminars, and exchange information, experiences and opinions about the Spring framework and other related technologies. The User Group is available at http://groups.google.com/group/swedenspring. The communication in the group is in Swedish. We are looking forward to meet you there and have a lot of interesting discussions!