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The Spring Modules project has published the 0.3 release.

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This new release contains many new features and bugfixes:

- new Flux Spring module
- new jBPM 3.0.x module
- new jBPM 3.1.x module
- new JSR-170 (Java Content Repository) module with Jackrabbit and Jeceira support
- new Lucene Module
- Commons-Configuration integration
- improved OSWorkflow support
- many improvements and updates to the Cache module

See our changelog for more information.

The full roadmap can be found here.

The next release (0.4) is scheduled for July and will align most of the modules to Spring 2.0. Notable features scheduled for 0.4 include custom namespaces for the cache and jcr module, Tangosol Coherence support, more documentation and samples.

We are still looking to recruit more developers to work on more modules, and any feedback on new or existing features will be much appreciated.
 

Dear Spring community,

We are pleased to announce that Spring 1.2.8 has been released. Download | Docs | Changelog

This is a maintenance release, fixing a number of issues found in previous 1.2.x releases. Most of these fixes have been backported from 2.0 M4, so have already been available there. Please see the changelog for details.

Dear Spring Community,

We are very pleased to announce that Spring Web Flow (SWF) 1.0 RC1 (Release Candidate 1) has been released.  Download it.

After over a year of hard development work, 29,000 downloads, 3,700 posts by 500 forum users, one book, and numerous community-driven articles, this release delivers the first 1.0 release candidate of Spring Web Flow.  Considered fit for production use, this release solidifies the 1.0 API which will remain backward compatible throughout the entire 1.x series.

To the Spring Web Flow early adopters and champions who have supported our product, thank you.  Spring Web Flow delivers one of the most innovative and powerful controller engines available today thanks to your feedback and support.

The Spring Web Flow team expects one more release candidate before 1.0 final.  The new and noteworthy in 1.0 RC1 include...

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: May 22nd - 25th, New York, NY
• Core Spring: June 6th - 9th, Washington, DC
• Core Spring: June 26th - 29th, Chicago, IL
• Core Spring: July 25th - 28th, Philadelphia, PA

• Europe
• Core Spring: May 16th - 19th, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
• Core Spring: May 23rd - 26th, London, UK
• Core AOP: May 30th - June 2nd, London, UK
• Core Spring: June 6th - 9th, Athens, Greece
• Core Spring: June 6th - 9th, Lyon, France
• 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
  

... plus others

Today Interface21 announced that it has certified and will support IBM’s WebSphere(R) Application Server Community Edition (WAS CE) as a deployment platform for Spring.  Additionally, Interface21 has certified and will support the open source Apache Geronimo application server upon which WAS CE is based. IBM will support customers deploying Spring applications to either application server through IBM’s world class support offerings.

The full press release may be read below:

Interface21 Certifies IBM WebSphere Application Server Community Edition  and Apache Geronimo on the Spring Framework.

Dear Spring Community,

We are pleased to announce that Spring IDE 1.3 has been released.

This release of Spring IDE provides some new features and a bunch of bugfixes. For a complete list visit http://springide.org/project/milestone/Release%201.3

Changes:

• Now Eclipse 3.1 and Web Tools are required!!!
• Updated to Spring 1.2.7
• Updated version of BeansXmlEditor
• Support for searching the BeansCoreModel
• Open Spring Bean dialog (similar to JDT's "Open Type" dialog)
• Wizard for creating a new SpringProject
• BeansView can be linked to BeansXmlEditor
• Now any filename extensions for BeansConfig files are supported

More details are available from the project's site http://springide.org/

Use Eclipse's update manager to install this this release from the project's update site http://springide.org/updatesite/

For bug reports tickets can be opened via http://springide.org/project/newticket

Dear Spring community,

We are pleased to announce that Spring 2.0 M4 has been released.  Download | Docs | Changelog

Spring 2.0 M4 is the fourth milestone of the next generation of Spring.

The new and noteworthy include:

• updated JPA support
• named parameter support for JDBC acces
• refined XML schema namespaces
• auto-proxying for FactoryBean-created objects
• and many other refinements noted in the changelog.

This release also contains numerous fixes for issues discovered since M3.  Users of previous milestones are encouraged to update.  See the changelog for details on all M4 changes.

With this release we are approaching a feature freeze for the 2.0 production target, with only a few further features and refinements planned for inclusion in 2.0. The next release will be Spring 2.0 Release Candidate 1 (RC1), scheduled for May.

We will also release a 1.2.8 maintenance release within a few days, backporting all applicable fixes from 2.0 M4. (This is already available from mbranch-1-2 in CVS, awaiting final tests.)

Enjoy and keep the feedback rolling in,

Juergen
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Juergen Hoeller
Lead, Spring Framework Development
Chief Architect, Interface21
http://www.springframework.org
http://www.interface21.com

The Spring team is headed to JavaOne 2006, May 16th - 19th, at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, CA.

The team will be delivering three technical sessions:

• TS-3744 Spring Framework Update - May 17th, 12:15 - Hall E 134
• TS-3456 Spring Web Flow, Dialogs for the Web - May 17th, 13:30 - Esplanade 307-310
• TS-1956 Designing Manageable J2EE™ Platform-Based Applications With JMX™ Technology - May 19th, 13:15 - Hall E 134

 as well as two Birds of a Feather (BOF) sessions:

• BOF-0461 The Spring Rich Client Project: Effective Desktop Application Architecture - May 16th, 22:30 - Franciscan I
• BOF-0745 Using the Spring Framework to Enable Fast, Effective Testing - May 17th, 20:30 - Hall E 134

Each of these sessions will provide practical insight for attendees towards the application of the Spring platform... 

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:

• Core Spring: April 25th - 28th, Antwerp, Belgium
• Core Spring: April 25th - 28th, Stockholm, Sweden
• Core Spring: May 2nd - 5th, Los Angeles
  
• Core Spring: May 16th - 19th, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
• Core Spring: May 22nd - 25th, New York, NY
• Core Spring: May 23rd - 26th, London, UK
• Core Spring: June 6th - 9th, Athens, Greece
• Core Spring: June 6th - 9th, Lyon, France
  
• Core Spring: June 6th - 9th, Toronto, Canada
  
• Core Spring: June 6th - 9th, Washington, DC
  
  
• ... plus others!

Spring Framework has been nominated as a finalist in the 16th annual, 2006 Jolt Product Excellence Awards put out by Software Development Magazine, under the Libraries, Frameworks, and Components category.