News and Announcements  

The "early bird" registration deadline for The Spring Experience 2006 is fast approaching Monday, October 16th.  Register by Monday and save $155 off (10%) the standard conference registration rate.

Seats are filling fast.  We look forward to seeing you and your team in paradise in December for this one-of-a-kind event!

It is our pleasure to announce that the long-awaited final release of the Spring Framework version 2.0 is now available.

Download | Documentation | Changelog 

As the leading full-stack Java/Java EE application framework, Spring delivers significant benefits for many projects, reducing development effort and costs while improving test coverage and quality.

This stable, production-grade release comes after 9 months of active development.  In this short time the Spring 2.x series has matured immensely, benefiting from over 150,000 early access downloads across 9 milestone releases, resulting in over 750 JIRA issues resolved, 50 of which introduce major new features.

What's New?

We believe three attributes capture what our users can expect from the Spring 2.0 series: Simple, Powerful, and Proven.

Interface21 is pleased to offer a number of Spring Framework 2.0 and AOP 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: October 10th - 13th, Chicago, IL
• Core Spring: October 31st - November 3rd, Washington, DC
• Core AOP:  November 7th - 10th, Washington, DC
• Core Spring: November 14th - 17th, San Francisco, CA
• Core Spring: November 28th - December 1st, Orlando, FL

• Europe/Asia
  
• Core Spring: October 17th - 20th, Milan, Italy
• Core Spring: October 23rd - 26th, Tel Aviv, Israel
• Core Spring: October 24th - 27th, London, UK
• Core Spring: October 30th - November 2nd, Istanbul, Turkey
• Core Spring: November 7th - 10th, Madrid, Spain
• Core Spring: November 14th - 17th, Paris, France
  
• Core Spring: November 20th - 23rd, Stockholm, Sweden
• Core Spring: November 21st - 24th, London, UK
• Core Spring: November 21st - 24th, Amsterdam, NL
• Core Spring: November 21st - 24th, Munich, Germany
• Core Spring: November 27th - 30th, Sydney, Australia
  

... plus others

Interested in a full-course of Spring during Winter? The Spring Experience 2006 conference is taking place in sunny Hollywood, Florida, from Dec. 7th-10th. 

Dear Spring Community,

I am pleased to announce that Spring Modules (SM) 0.6 has been released. Downloads | Docs (Html , PDF) | JavaDocs

The new version contains the following notable features:

We are pleased to announce that Spring 2.0 RC4 has been released.  Download | Documentation | Changelog

This is the last release candidate before Spring 2.0 final.  RC4 includes many further bug fixes and refinements in various areas, as well as minor new features (for example in the JMS support). Please see the changelog and JIRA issue list for all the details.  The most notable changes include...

The "super early bird" registration deadline for The Spring Experience 2006 is fast approaching this Friday, September 8th.  Register by Friday and save $300 off (20%) the standard conference registration rate.

Seats are filling fast.  We look forward to seeing you and your team in paradise in December for this one-of-a-kind event!

The much anticipated release of Spring 2.0 final is scheduled for September 26th. InfoQ spoke to Rod, Juergen, Rob, and Adrian, leads of the Spring team, to find out what has been going on with release preparations and what is coming up.

Read An Update on Spring 2.0 Final 

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 12th - 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
• Core Spring: November 14th - 17th, San Francisco, CA
• Core Spring: November 28th - December 1st, Orlando, FL

• Europe/Asia
  
• 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
• Core Spring: October 24th - 27th, London, UK

... plus others

Interested in a full-course of Spring during Winter? The Spring Experience 2006 conference is taking place in sunny Hollywood, Florida, from Dec. 7th-10th. 

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.