News and Announcements  

Dear Spring Community,

I'm pleased to announce that Spring 2.1 M3 has been released!

This is the third milestone release in the Spring 2.1 series, introducing autowiring for collections, the "bean(name)" pointcut element, various JDBC enhancements, JRuby 1.0 support and many refinements all over the framework.

Please see the changelog and JIRA roadmap for more details on the new features introduced in this release.

FYI, we have also released 2.0.7 snapshots, containing backported fixes from 2.1 M3. Please give a recent snapshot a try as a drop-in replacement for 2.0.5/2.0.6! The official 2.0.7 release is scheduled for August 15th. 

Enjoy, 

Juergen Hoeller
Lead, Spring Framework Development
Interface21 - http://www.interface21.com

Dear Spring Community,

We are pleased to announce that the agenda for The Spring Experience 2007 has been posted and that conference registration is now open.  We look forward to seeing you in Florida this December for our biggest and most exciting show yet.

 

The Spring Experience is the conference for the global Spring community.  This one-of-a-kind event is for application developers, solution architects, and project managers who develop business applications with Spring and the technologies Spring integrates with.

2007 will be our third year, and our biggest show yet.  This year's agenda features five concurrent tracks and over 60 technical sessions delivering new and exclusive Spring content.  The five tracks are:

1. Essential Spring
   Covers the latest version of the Spring Framework, its central concepts, and the unique Spring application development approach and toolset


2. Enterprise Integration
   Presents solutions to integration challenges facing teams developing large enterprise applications


3. Rich Web
   Focuses on web application development patterns and best practices, with a practical focus on developing beautiful user interfaces 
   


4. Application Architecture and Design
   Presents design approaches and architectural guidance for solving common problems faced when developing business applications on the Spring stack 
   


5. Emerging Tech
   Showcases bold, cutting-edge topics that offer a new perspective

Spring's ecosystem and community has grown significantly over the last year and continues to grow rapidly.  We are proud to have this year's Spring Experience showcasing that growth, featuring such new and exciting content as:

• A two-part workshop on applying Enterprise Integration Patterns to build event-driven architectures with Spring, lead by Mark Fisher.

• Holistic coverage for developers of batch processing applications, including the first ever series offered on Spring Batch, Spring's new batch processing framework.

• Sessions on high-availability architectures by Billy Newport, Distinguished Engineer at IBM.

• A view inside Oracle showing how the company is building out its next generation Application Server product on Spring and OSGi, by Hal Hildebrand.

• Comprehensive coverage for developers building web applications with Spring, from techniques to simplify CRUD action development, to Ajax integration guidelines, to best practices for conversational data access and UI component design.

• How Spring application developers can take advantage of Groovy and Grails, with Graeme Rocher, lead of the Grails project.

• The latest and greatest on Spring Portfolio products Spring Security, Spring Web Services, Spring Web Flow, Spring OSGi, Spring LDAP, and Spring.NET from the developers who created and sustain those products.

• A mini Portal Development workshop, by John Lewis, creator of Spring Portlet MVC.

• A must-see tour through the state-of-the-art in Spring application development tools, with Mik Kersten, of Eclipse, and Christian Dupuis, of Spring IDE.
  

Building on the success of our previous years, this year's show will take us back to the Westin Diplomat Resort & Spa, a five-star beach resort located in the greater Miami Beach area.  We are also pleased to be working with Jay Zimmerman, Director of NoFluffJustStuff Software Symposiums, for our third consecutive year.

We look forward to seeing you and your team at The Spring Experience 2007!

Vote for the SpringFramework in the Best Technical Design category at the SourceForge.net Community Choice Awards.  Voting closes July 26th.

Interface21 is pleased to offer a number of Spring Framework 2.0 and AOP training events in the upcoming period, delivered by the people who build and sustain the Spring Framework. 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 10th - 13th, San Diego, CA
  
• Core Spring: July 17th - 20th, New York, NY
  
• Core Spring: July 24th - 27th, Denver, CO
• Core Spring: Aug 7th - 10th, Raleigh, NC
• Core Spring: Aug 21st - 24th, Chicago, IL
• Core Spring: Aug 27th - 30th, San Francisco, CA
• Core Spring: Sep 11th - 14th, Washington, DC (Dulles)
  
• Core Spring: Sep 18th - 21st, New York, NY
  

• Europe
• Core Spring: July 10th - 13th, Core AOP, Amsterdam, NL
• Core Spring: July 3rd - 6th, London, UK
  
• Core Spring: July 24th - 27th, London, UK
  
• Spring 2.0 Update: August 6th - 7th, London, UK
  
• Core Spring: August 14th - 17th, London, UK
  
• Core Spring: September 18th - 21st, London, UK
  
• Core Spring: September 25th - 28th, Munich, Germany
  

• Australia/Asia/Other
  
• Core Spring: July 9th - 12, Canberra, Australia
  
• Core Spring: July 16th - 19th, Brisbane, Australia
  
• Core Spring: August 20th - 23rd, Sydney, Australia
  
• Core Spring: November 5th - 8th, New Delhi, India
  
• Core Spring: November 19th - 22nd, Bangalore, India
  

... plus others

After fixing approximately 250 bugs and working uncountable hours on adding support for Spring 2.0, Spring Web Flow, Spring AOP and Spring JavaConfig, we are proud to announce the immediate availability of Spring IDE 2.0.

Download | Documentation | Changelog

The release is available from our release update site. Spring IDE 2.0 is licensed under the terms of the Eclipse Public License - v1.0.

New Features

Spring IDE 2.0 contains lots of new features and a bunch of bug fixes. A list of all closed tickets is available in our ticketing system. For those of you that are not familiar with recent development of Spring IDE here is a short list of features included:

• Support for Spring 2.0 namespace-based configurations. We have put lots of work into that to make the support as extensible as possible. You can read more about that in another post.
• Support for Spring Web Flow, including an extension to WTP’s XML editor for content assist and hyperlinking as well as validation and graphical editing. More information is available here.
• Tools for Spring AOP based development. This includes support for validating configurations (parsing of pointcut expressions) and visualization of cross cutting references based on <aop:config> and @AspectJ-style aspects.
• Support for Spring JavaConfig M2. This serves as sandbox for testing the extension points of Spring IDE’s core. Read more about that here and here.
• Usability and UI improvements: A new Spring Explorer that replaces the Beans View, Content contribution to the Eclipse’s Project Explorer, a Spring Working Set type to reduce cluttering in the Project and Spring Explorer, Refactoring participants for rename and move refactorings of Java Packages and Classes as well as Bean names, New Project and Spring Bean configuration file wizard.

Spring IDE 2.0 is compatible with upcoming Eclipse 3.3 (aka Eclipse Europa).

Read more at the Spring IDE Blog.

This article by Sunil Patil is a detailed introduction to Spring LDAP, showing both lower level and CRUD style operations, including the use of dynamic filters.

Dear Spring Community,

We are pleased to announce that Spring 2.0.6 has been released.  Spring 2.0.6 is a bugfix and enhancement release in the Spring 2.0 series, addressing all issues reported since 2.0.5 and backporting various refinements from 2.1 M2 (e.g. compatibility with JRuby 1.0).

Please see the changelog and JIRA roadmap for all the details of the issues addressed in this release.

Juergen Hoeller
Lead, Spring Framework Development
Interface21 - http://www.interface21.com

We are proud to announce that the last release candidate of Spring IDE 2.0 has been released. Read the announcement on the Spring IDE blog.

Download | Documentation | Changelog

The release candidate is available immediately from our developer update site at http://springide.org/updatesite_dev. Please take some time for testing and provide feedback on any errors, bugs or problems you might find. Many thanks to all that already provided feedback and bug reports. The feedback is really valuable for us.

The final version of Spring IDE 2.0 should be available around SpringOne 2007.

We are pleased to announce that Spring Web Services 1.0 RC2 has been released.

 
This is the second release candidate of Spring-WS, a product of the Spring community focused on creating document-driven Web services. This release contains fixes for bugs discovered since the RC1 release along with minor improvements.  In addition, the "Airline" sample application has been enhanced to use Java 5 features including the new @Endpoint programming model, JPA support, @Transactional, and more.