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Last winter The Spring Experience 2005, the first conference for the Spring community, brought 250 developers from over 20 countries to beautiful Bal Harbour Beach, Florida.  Attendees benefited from a complete "experience" that spared no expense--a broad selection of relevant technical sessions with the amenities of a five-star beach resort.

Fast forward to this summer where Interface21 has just wrapped up the first European show for the Spring community, SpringOne 2006.  SpringOne brought 400 developers and architects from 25 countries to melting-pot Antwerp, Belgium.

"With SpringOne we seek to offer Europe an easily-accessible, premium brand technical conference." noted Steven Schuurman, Interface21 Vice President.  "This year's show was an absolute success.  We had our core team on hand to deliver the latest Spring 2.0 content, as well as an outstanding group of end users and industry visionaries." ...

Dear Spring Community,

I am pleased to announce that Spring Modules (SM) 0.4 has been released. Downloads | Docs (Html , PDF) | JavaDocs

Released less then 1 month after 0.3, the new version contains the following notable features:

Interface21 is pleased to offer a number of Spring Framework training events in the upcoming period, delivered by core Spring Framework developers. 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: June 6th - 9th, Washington, DC
• Core Spring: June 26th - 29th, Chicago, IL
• Core Spring: July 25th - 28th, Philadelphia, PA
• Core Spring: August 15th - 18th, Boston, MA
• Core Spring: September 12nd - 15th, New York, NY

• Europe
• Core Hibernate: June 6th - 8th, London, UK
• Core Spring: June 27th - 30th, Zurich, Switzerland
• Core Spring: July 18th - 21st, London, UK
• Core AOP: July 25th - 28th, London, UK
• Core Hibernate: August 8th - 10th, London, UK
• Core Spring: August 21st - 24th, London, UK

... plus others

Just a reminder that SpringOne is just two weeks away!

The European Conference for the Spring Community

SpringOne is the first European conference designed specifically for the Spring Framework community. This 2-day event organized by Interface21 and the Belgium Java Users Group (BeJUG) will take place in Antwerp, Belgium on the 15th and 16th of June, 2006.

Meet the people that shaped Spring, and shaped the industry

The conference will offer 40 sessions over 4 parallel tracks, plus 5 keynote speakers including 'the Father of Spring' Rod Johnson, and Gregor Kiczales, pioneer of aspect-oriented programming.

Sessions will be led many of the core developers on the Spring framework, including Juergen Hoeller, Rob Harrop, Adrian Colyer, Alef Arendsen, Keith Donald, Thomas Risberg and Colin Sampaleanu, as well as industry-recognised experts, thought leaders and innovators including Ramnivas Laddad, Gregor Hohpe, Patrick Linskey and others.

Find out more on the SpringOne 2006 website.

After more than two and a half years of development, I am delighted to announce that Acegi Security 1.0.0 is now officially released.

Download | Documentation | Changelog 

In addition to more than 80 improvements and fixes since 1.0.0 RC2, this new release includes several changes to help new users. This entails a significant restructure and expansion of the reference guide (now at more than 90 pages) and a new "bare bones" tutorial sample application.

Pitchfork is an add-on for the Spring Framework, performing JSR-250 (Common Annotations) dependency injection and annotation processing, as well as supporting EJB 3.0 interceptors. It was co-developed by Interface21 and BEA under an open source license. It is being used to provide the underpinnings of the support for the new part of the EJB model introduced by EJB 3, inside the BEA WebLogic Server, but may also be used standalone.

A Pitchfork Project FAQ has now been posted which answers common questions on how the project came about and how it relates to Spring.

Asynchronous calls and callbacks using Lingo Spring Remoting is a detailed blog entry by Sanjiv Jivan focusing on Lingo, a Spring Remoting implementation that supports asynchronous calls and remote callbacks. This entry covers all the nitty gritty details of the async/callback related functionality along with the limitations and gotchas.

At JavaOne Interface21 and BEA Systems announced they have jointly developed implementations of key Java EE 5 components on Spring Framework 2.0. They unveiled an open source project that comprises Spring support for the Java EE 5 Common Annotations (JSR-250), which includes resource injection and EJB 3 (JSR-220) interception. This project is used to implement JEE5 inside the next generation of WebLogic Server, and is also available for use within JSE environments.

Users will benefit from the full power of Spring 2.0 within a standard JEE5 environment.