News and Announcements  

There are some exciting new webinars in April for users of the Spring Framework.

• On April 2nd, 2008 Christian Dupuis will present an Introduction to SpringSource Tool Suite which will show developers how to get started using the new Eclipse based IDE that is designed specifically for building Spring applications.
• On April 8th, 2008 Mitch Ferguson will present a SpringSource Partner Program Overview which will discuss how partners building solutions based on Spring can become better integrated.

Sign up for these and other interesting events at the webinar page where you can also watch archived recordings of  previous webinars.  

SpringSource Application Management Suite (AMS) is a comprehensive enterprise application management tool designed specifically to manage and monitor Spring-powered applications. Using intelligent monitoring aspects and remote JMX, AMS collects and reports lots of performance and management information. You don't even have to change any of your Spring code to turn it on!    

Be sure to sign up, try it out and give us feedback.

Today at EclipseCon 2008 we announced the Public Beta Program of the SpringSource Tool Suite. The SpringSource Tool Suite provides the best possible environment for building any Spring-based application and packages the expertise of SpringSource consultants in easy to use tools:

• Task Focused Tutorials
• Best Practice Guides
• Anti-pattern Detection
• Runtime Error Resolution 

Be sure to sign up for the Beta Program and try it out.

• Improvements in Reference Documentation
• Reorganization of packaging structure in spring-batch-infrastructure and spring-batch-core
• Merging of the spring-batch-core and spring-batch-execution modules

Please see the changelog for details.

Ben Hale
Spring Batch Technical Lead
SpringSource

Dear Spring community,
 
I'm pleased to announce that Spring Framework 2.5.2 has been released. Download | Documentation
 
This is the second update release in the Spring 2.5 series. It fixes all issues reported since 2.5.1 and introduces various enhancements throughout the framework:

• Restored full Spring 2.0 compatibility for specific extension points
• Extended SQL error code mappings for MS SQL, MySQL, PostgreSQL and Oracle
• Revised JDBC BeanPropertyRowMapper with refined value extraction logic
• Support for the GlassFish/JBoss JCA WorkManager as TaskExecutor backend
• Support for Eclipse Persistence Services 1.0 M4 (the EclipseLink JPA provider)
• Compatibility with the WebSphere JPA provider (derived from OpenJPA)
• @RequestMapping supports "!myParam" expressions for non-presence of a parameter
• @RequestMapping's "params" attribute supported at the type level as well
• Revised JSP CheckboxesTag and RadioButtonsTag (for strict HTML compliance)

Please see the changelog for details.

Dear Spring community,

I'm pleased to announce that Spring Dynamic Modules for OSGi(tm) Service Platforms (formerly known as Spring OSGi) 1.0.1 has been released.

Downloads | JavaDocs | Reference Documentation | FAQ | Changelog

Dear Spring community,

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