News and Announcements  

Interface21 is pleased to offer a number of Spring Framework training events in the upcoming period, taught by the same people who built Spring.

For full details, please visit the main training information page.

Here is a summary of the upcoming courses and venues:

• Core Spring: Oct. 11th-14th, Washington, DC
• Core Spring: Oct. 25th-28th, Oslo, Norway (early bird date is Sep. 16th!)
• Introduction to Spring: Nov. 7th-9th, Amsterdam, NL (early bird date is Oct. 7th!)
• Core Spring: Nov. 22nd-25th, Amsterdam, NL (early bird date is Oct. 28th!)
• Core Spring: Nov. 29th - Dec. 2nd, Dallas, TX (early bird date is Nov. 4th!)
• Core Spring: Nov. 29th - Dec. 2nd, Edinburgh, UK (early bird date is Nov. 4th!)
• Introduction to Spring: Nov. 30th - Dec. 2nd, Amsterdam, NL (early bird date is Oct. 28th!)

Interesting in a bit of Spring during Winter? The Spring Experience 2005 conference is taking place in sunny Bal Harbor Beach, Florida, from Dec. 7th-10th.

The Spring Framework was in full force at BEAWorld 2005 in Santa Clara, CA, where BEA and Interface21 highlighted how well BEA's WebLogic server and Spring work together, and BEA announced its endorsement of Spring on WLS that includes 24x7 support for Spring in that environment.

BEA has released their 'Spring-on-WLS' package on dev2dev. This bundle includes Spring 1.2.5 along with an enhancement to the WebLogic management console that enables real-time management of Spring Beans.

The bundle also includes a new version of BEA's MedRec sample application.  This version has been re-architected from a legacy EJB-based architecture to a Spring-based architecture for the handling of transactions, data access, and remoting, among other services.

It is interesting to note how many lines of code were saved as a result of the port to Spring.

Open Symphony's WebWork, an open source web application framework, has standardized on Spring for the configuration, assembly, and deployment of POJO-based middle-tier services.

Patrick Lightbody, co-lead of the WebWork project, notes, "as the most complete 'lightweight container' available today, Spring is the de facto standard for the management of the internal architecture of a JEE application.  We are excited to ship official Spring integration with WebWork 2.2, which is nearing final release.  This integration will make it even easier for WebWork users to use Spring."

In addition to WebWork, Spring's middleware stack integrates with a number of other established web application frameworks including Struts, JSF, Tapestry, and Spring MVC.  Spring is committed to supporting a flexible set of configurations across both JEE and JSE environments.

For more information, see Patrick's original announcement.

We're pleased to announce that Spring 1.2.5 has just been released. This is a bugfix and minor enhancement release, fixing a number of issues found in previous 1.2.x releases and introducing various minor new features.

As always, for a full list of enhancements and fixes, please see the changelog.

Scott Priolo's article on TheServerSide describes an easy process of implementing the observer pattern with the Spring framework. Read the article.

Interface21 and NoFluffJustStuff Java Symposiums (NFJS) are pleased to announce that James Strachan and Jonas Boner have joined the list of speakers at The Spring Experience, the first ever conference exclusively for the Spring Framework community.

Taking place Dec. 7th-10th, at the Sheraton Bal Harbour Beach Resort, South Florida, The Spring Experience will feature over 40 technically focused sessions across three (3) full days spanning four (4) parallel tracks covering effective web architecture, enterprise systems, and agile process. Other featured speakers include Spring Framework founders Rod Johnson and Juergen Hoeller, as well as lead Spring developers Rob Harrop, Colin Sampaleanu, Keith Donald, Alef Arendsen, Ben Alex, and Jim Clark.  In addition, industry experts and distinguished authors Bruce Tate, Matt Raible, Craig Walls, Justin Gehtland, and Dion Almaer will each be holding sessions.

The last day for super early bird registration discounts is Sept. 19th. We encourage you to register as soon as possible because the attendance is capped at five hundred (500) and we anticipate a sold out show.

I have some great news for the Spring and the Spring AOP community. In October, Adrian Colyer, head of the AspectJ project, will be joining Interface21, the premier source for Spring Framework training, consulting, and support.

Here's an eWeek article describing Adrian's move, as well as Adrian's own blog entry on the subject.

Here's Rod Johnson's announcement from the forums:

I am pleased to announce that AspectJ lead Adrian Colyer is joining Interface21.

Adrian will remain as AspectJ lead, but will also focus much more on Spring. Adrian and Rob and I are working together to enhance the integration between Spring and AspectJ, and I also expect Adrian to make a significant contribution to Spring AOP.

Some Spring/AspectJ integration features on the way:

(updated 2005-9-8 with dates for Oslo and Edinburgh!)

Interface21 is pleased to offer a number of Spring Framework training events in the upcoming period, taught by the same people who built Spring.

For full details, please visit the main training information page.

Here is a summary of the upcoming courses and venues:

• Core Spring: Sep. 13th-16th, New York City, USA (early bird date is Aug. 19th!)
• Core Spring: Sep. 27th-30th, San Jose, CA, USA (early bird date is Sep. 9th!)
• Core Spring: Oct. 11th-14th, Washington, DC (early bird date is Sep. 23rd!)
• Core Spring: Oct. 25th-28th, Oslo, Norway (early bird date is Sep. 16th!)
• Introduction to Spring: Nov. 7th-9th, Amsterdam, NL (early bird date is Oct. 7th!)
• Core Spring: Nov. 22nd-25th, Amsterdam, NL (early bird date is Oct. 28th!)
• Core Spring: Nov. 29th - Dec. 2nd, Edinburgh, UK (early bird date is Nov. 4th!)
• Introduction to Spring: Nov. 30th - Dec. 2nd, Amsterdam, NL (early bird date is Oct. 28th!)

Not interested in formal Spring Framework training? How about a bit of Spring during Winter? The Spring Experience 2005 conference is taking place in sunny Bal Harbor, Florida, from Dec. 7th-10th.

We're pleased to announce that Spring 1.2.4 has just been released. This is a bugfix and minor enhancement release, fixing a number of issues found in previous 1.2.x releases and introducing various minor new features.

All Spring 1.2.x users are encouraged to upgrade to Spring 1.2.4. Watch out for a Spring 1.3 release candidate, including Portlet support, and the first Web Flow release candidate in late September!

As always, for a full list of enhancements and fixes, please see the changelog.