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SpringSource announced today that it has acquired G2One Inc., the company behind the popular Groovy and Grails technologies.
- Groovy is an open source dynamic language for the Java Virtual Machine, that offers a flexible Java-like syntax all Java developers can learn easily. Many organizations have adopted Groovy as an abstraction layer for defining business rules using Domain Specific Languages.
- Grails is an open source advanced and innovative web application framework based on Groovy, and built on proven and high performance open source platforms such as Spring, Hibernate, SiteMesh, Quartz, and Ajax libraries. Grails allows developers to use agile methodologies and principles like convention over configuration to rapidly build quality applications.
There is a FAQ covering the acquisition as well as blog posts by Rod Johnson, Graeme Rocher (Grails project lead) and Guillaume Laforge (Groovy project lead). Both Grails and Groovy have great synergies with Spring and I know that the Spring community will extend a warm welcome to Grails and Groovy users.
We are pleased to announce that Spring for .NET 1.2.0 is now available.
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This release contains the following new major features:
- WCF integration - Configure WCF services using dependency injection. Apply AOP advice to WCF services.
- MSMQ integration - MSMQ helper classes to increase your productivity developing messaging applications. Provides integration with Spring's transaction management features.
- Apache ActiveMQ integration - Helper classes to increase your productivity developing messaging applications with ActiveMQ/NMS
- Quartz integration - Configure Quartz jobs, schedulers, triggers using dependency injection. Convenience classes for implementing Quartz Jobs.
- AOP- New inheritance based AOP proxy generation
- NHibernate 2.0.1 support.
This release includes approximately 100 bug fixes and enhancements since the 1.1.2 release.
Please refer to the changelog for additional details.
Enjoy!
SpringSource is proud to present the Spring Day in Copenhagen. The session will be held at the Copenhagen Marriott Hotel on the 24th of November and will start at 13.30 PM. During this SpringSource Seminar:
- Alef Arendsen, co-founder of Spring, will teach attendees the whereabouts of the Spring Portfolio as well as how to profit from the key benefits that the new SpringSource dm Server grants.
The session will end at 18:00 PM with a social get-together and free drink with Alef Arendsen.
Registration for this SpringSource Seminar is now possible, tickets are available for € 75,-. However attendence is free for everybody who registers for the Core Spring bootcamp on the 25th of November in Copenhagen.
Register now for the Core Spring Course and/or the Spring Day Copenhagen
Dear Spring Community,
We are pleased to announce that Spring JavaConfig 1.0.0.M4 is now available.
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Major Highlights
- @AnnotationDrivenTx - support for declarative transaction management
- @AnnotationDrivenConfig - support for @Autowired, @Resource, et al.
- @ComponentScan - scan for @Component classes directly from JavaConfig
- @AspectJAutoProxy - first-class support for @Aspect beans
- @MBeanExport - first class support for exporting JMX MBeans
- Complete PetClinic sample now available with distribution demonstrating use of JavaConfig
- Improved support for externalized values with @ExternalValue and @PropertiesValueSource
- @ImportXml - bootstrap Spring XML bean definitions from JavaConfig
- Improved error handling
- ... and dozens of other resolved issues
Please give this milestone a test drive, and provide your feedback through the Spring JavaConfig Forum or Issue Tracker. For more information, visit the Spring JavaConfig Home.
Chris Beams
Spring JavaConfig Lead
We are pleased to announce that Spring 2.5.6 has been released.
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This release primarily fixes some bugs and also adds some new features:
- Over 100 resolved issues
- Updates to match up with latest version of some third party libraries, for example:
- Revised OSGi manifest headers
Please refer to the changelog for additional details.
Enjoy!
The early registration period for the SpringOne Americas 2008 conference in Hollywood, FL has been extended for one more week. Be sure to register for the conference this week because the $150 discount expires at the end of the day on November 7th. The conference will focus on in-depth technical presentations, customer case studies, and practical, technical advice for developers, architects and administrators.
Be sure to register now and check out the video below of Juergen Hoeller's technical session on Spring and Java EE from last year.
Juergen Hoeller: Spring and Java EE
In this technical session from the 2007 The Spring Experience, Juergen Hoeller discuss in detail the integration points between Spring and the various different Java EE standards. Juergen reviews
- Spring's usage and support of specific enterprise APIs
- Transaction management integration points
- Task execution and thread management
- Java EE Web, Web Service and EJB usage within Spring 2.5
SpringOne Americas 2008 has more than seventy highly technical sessions like this one.
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Dear Spring Community,
We are pleased to announce that Spring Integration 1.0.0.RC1 is now available.
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1.0 Final is now just around the corner. Please give this Release Candidate a test drive, and provide your feedback through the Spring Integration Forum or Issue Tracker. For more information, visit the Spring Integration Home.
Mark Fisher
Spring Integration Lead
Dear Spring Community,
We are delighted to announce the release of Spring LDAP 1.3.0.RC1. This is a release candidate for the 1.3.0 version, a major release containing several heavily requested new features as well as a substantial number of bug fixes.
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What's New?
Detailed information regarding some of the major new features and bug fixes can be found here. The Change Log contains a complete list of all changes in this release.
Maven Users
Since this is a release candidate it is not published to the main Maven repository. It is however available from the Spring Framework milestone repository. Refer to the Spring LDAP home page for information on how to access Spring LDAP 1.3.0.RC1 from Maven.
Feedback and Bug Reports
Any comments should be posted to the Spring LDAP support forum. Bugs and feature requests should be reported to the Jira issue tracker.
Enjoy!
Mattias Arthursson & Ulrik Sandberg, Spring LDAP Project Team
The Spring Day Brussel is a Spring focused day that will highlight the Spring Portfolio and the new SpringSource dm Server. The session will be held at the unique Brussels Marriot Hotel on the 14th of November and will start at 13.30 PM. This day will feature:
- Alef Arendsen, co-founder of Spring, will explain attendees the whereabouts of the Spring Portfolio.
- Joris Kuipers, SpringSource dm Server specialist, will inform attendees about the new SpringSource dm Server. Attendees will walk away with a solid understanding of how to develop and deploy next generation web applications on the S2AP.
Register as soon as possible since there are only limited seats available for this day. More information can be found at the event website.
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