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Dear Spring Community,

We are pleased to announce that Spring LDAP version 1.1 has been released. This is the first release of the library as a Spring Framework sub project. Download | Documentation | API

About Spring LDAP
Spring LDAP is a Java library for simplifying LDAP operations, based on the pattern of Spring's JdbcTemplate. The framework relieves the user of the burden of looking up and closing contexts, looping through NamingEnumerations, encoding/decoding values and filters, and more.

We are pleased to announce that eight first-class speakers have been added to The Spring Experience conference agenda, bringing the total number of technical sessions at the show to 60.  Our new additions include:

Mike Keith, Oracle architect and lead of the Java Persistence Architecture (JPA) Patrick Linskey, lead of the BEA WebLogic EJB solution and Apache Open JPA project Ross Mason, founder of the Mule Integration Platform and Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) Shay Banon, creator of the Compass Search Engine Framework John Lewis, principal developer of Spring Portlet MVC Jeff Patton, user experience and human factors expert at ThoughtWorks Jonas Bonér, founder of AspectWerkz and lead engineer at Terracotta Matt Raible, author of Spring Live and creator of AppFuse

Noteable new sessions added to the agenda include:

• Where the JPA sidewalk ends: Tips for drawing outside the lines -  Mike and Patrick will show how to successfully venture beyond the JPA specification to get work done, while at the same time staying within its reach.
• Applying Domain-Driven-Design in the Enterprise with AspectJ - Ramnivas will explore architectural strategies for tackling a complex problem domain with the help of AspectJ.
• User Experience Distilled - You will hear direct from Jeff, a user experience specialist, how to to improve the quality of user interface in your software.

In addition, we are pleased to announce a special new block of RapidFire technical sessions Saturday evening.  These sessions will be led by the leaders of popular and emerging products in the larger Spring community.  They are a great opportunity for developers to learn the latest about Mule 2.0, Open JPA, Terracotta Clustering for Spring, Compass Search, and AppFuse 2.0.

See you in December 2006 for a one-of-a-kind show.  Register before September 8th to secure a spot for your team with the early bird discount.

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: September 12nd - 15th, New York, NY
• Core Spring: September 26th - 29th, Seattle, WA
• Core Spring: October 10th - 13th, Chicago, IL
• Core Spring: October 31st - November 3rd, Washington, DC
• Core AOP:  November 7th - 10th, Washington, DC
  

• Europe/Asia
  
• Core Spring: August 21st - 24th, London, UK
• Core AOP: September 12th - 15th, London, UK
  
• Core Spring: September 19th - 22nd, Antwerp, Belgium
• Core Spring: September 19th - 22nd, London, UK
• Core Spring: September 26th - 29th, Hamburge, Germany
• Core Hibernate: October 3rd - 5th, London, UK
• Core Spring: October 17th - 20th, Milan, Italy
• Core Spring: October 23rd - 26th, Tel Aviv, Israel

At the Darmstadt University of Technology Ivica Aracic's research is concerned with the question: can graph-based software visualization facilitate reasoning on the quality of software architectures?

In the course of Ivica's work he has analyzed the architectures of several products including Prefuse, JEdit, and The Spring Framework.

On the Spring developer list Ivica noted, "after analyzing Spring I was surprised to find there is not a single cycle in the dependency graph at the architectural level." (see screenshot)

Dear Spring Community,

I am pleased to announce that Spring Modules (SM) 0.5 has been released. Downloads | Docs (HTML , PDF) | JavaDocs

The new version contains the following notable features:

• Cache Module - added declarative caching support for GigaSpaces. Also fixes have been applied in order to align the module with the recent Spring 2.0 changes.
• Flux Module - added support for XML Engine bean.
• Jcr Module - updated documentation and the sample.
• OsWorkflow Module - has been documented.
• XT module - a new module adding support for richer domain models and richer user interfaces.

See our changelog for more information.  The release roadmap is available in JIRA.

The next version (0.6) is scheduled for August and will continue to add new features to the existing modules as well as align with Spring 2.0.

Feedback on new or existing features will be much appreciated.

Dear Spring community,

We are pleased to announce that Spring 2.0 RC2 has been released.  Download | Documentation | Changelog

This is the second release candidate on the way to Spring 2.0 final. It introduces a number of bug fixes and minor refinements, in particular in the AOP framework and in the JPA support. Please see the changelog for details. A number of further known issues will be addressed in the upcoming 2.0 RC3 release; see our JIRA road map for details.

Please give this release a try with your applications and let us know about any problems that you might encounter! It is important to emphasize that Spring 2.0 provides backwards compatability with the Spring 1.x series.  Spring 2.0 also continues to support JDK 1.3+ and J2EE 1.3+ (even J2EE 1.2+ except for the JSP tags and the EJB support). Compatability is critically important to our user base and we are committed to providing it. Hence, we're also interested in learning about potential compatibility issues on any such platform.

Thank you for all of the feedback leading up to this release.  We look forward to more of the same towards the big 2.0 GA launch date!

Enjoy,

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: July 25th - 28th, Philadelphia, PA
• Core Spring: August 15th - 18th, Boston, MA
• Core Spring: September 12nd - 15th, New York, NY
• Core Spring: September 26th - 29th, Seattle, WA
• Core Spring: October 10th - 13th, Seattle, WA
  

• Europe
  
• 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
• Core AOP: September 12th - 15th, London, UK
  
• Core Spring: September 19th - 22nd, Antwerp, BE
• Core Spring: September 19th - 22nd, London, UK
• Core Spring: September 26th - 29th, Hamburge, DE
  

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: