Dear Spring Community,

We are pleased to announce general availability of Spring Web Flow 2.  Download | Documentation

Spring Web Flow is the project in the Spring Portfolio that focuses on the development of rich web applications.  As a Spring project, Web Flow builds on the Spring Web MVC framework to provide:

• A domain-specific-language for defining reusable controller modules called flows
• An advanced controller engine for managing conversational state
• First-class support for using Ajax to construct rich user interfaces
• First-class support for using JavaServerFaces with Spring

The modules of the Web Flow 2 distribution and their relationship with the Spring Framework are illustrated below:

More exciting new webinars in May for anyone using Spring.

• On May 21st, 2008 Rob Harrop will present an Introduction to SpringSource Application Platform which will show developers how to get started using the completely module-based Java application server that is redefining how enterprise Java is run.
• On May 28th, 2008 Jared Rodriguez, CTO and Founder of SkywaySoftware, will present Model Centric Design and Development for Spring which will discuss how developers can use Skyway Builder to modify/customize existing Spring applications quickly and accurately.

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 1.0.0.RC2 is now available in the SpringSource beta program. Highlights of this release include:

• Added management of SpringSource Application Platform
• Added instrumentation of Spring Security 2.0
• Added instrumentation of Spring Web Flow 2.0
• Upgraded instrumented Spring Framework from 2.5.3 to 2.5.4

Download the latest version here.

• USA and Canada
• Core Spring: May 13th - 16th, Washington (Dulles)
• Core Spring: May 20th - 23rd, New York, NY
• Core Spring: June 3rd - 6th, San Diego, CA
  
• Core Spring: June 10th - 13th, Boston, MA
• Core Spring: June 17th - 20th, Chicago, IL
• Core-AOP: June 24th - 25th, New York, NY
• Core Spring: June 24th - 27th, Vancouver, Canada
  
• Core Spring: June 24th - 27th, Minneapolis, MN
  
• Core Spring: July 8th - 11th, Columbia, MD
• Core Spring: July 15th - 18th, San Jose, CA
  
• Core Spring: July 22nd - 25th, Ottawa, Canada
  
• Core Spring: July 22nd - 25th, New York, NY
• Core Spring: July 29th - August 1st, Seattle, WA

• Europe & Middle East
  
• Core Spring: May 13th - 16th, Rome, Italy
• Beginning Enterprise Java Development: May 20th - 23, London, UK
• Core Web Services: May 20th - 21st, Stockholm, Sweden
• Core Spring .NET: May 21st - 23rd, London, UK
• Core Web Services: May 22nd - 23rd, Paris, France
  
• Core Spring: May 27th - 30th, Zurich, Switzerland
  
• Core Spring: May 27th - 30th, Istanbul, Turkey
  
• Core Spring: May 27th - 30th, London, UK
• Core Spring: June 3rd - 6th, Amsterdam, NL
• Core AOP: June 3rd - 6th, London, UK
• Core Spring: June 10th - 13th, London, UK
• Beginning Enterprise Java Development: June 10th - 13th, Paris, France
  
• Core Spring .NET: June 18th - 20th, Paris, France
• Core Spring: June 24th - 27th, London, UK
  
• Beginning Enterprise Java Development: June 24th - 27th, London, UK
• Core Spring: July 1st - 4th, Paris, France
  
• Core Spring: July 15th - 18th, London, UK
  
• Core Spring: July 15th - 18th, Munich, Germany
• Core Web Services: July 24th - 25th, London, UK
• Core Spring .NET: July 30th - August 1st, London, UK

• Australia/Asia/Other
  
• Core Spring: May 19th - 22nd, Sydney, Australia
• Core Spring: May 27th - 30th, Wellington, New Zealand
  
• Core Spring: May 27th - 30th, Melbourne, Australia
• Core Spring: June 10th - 13th, Canberra, Australia
  
• Core Web Services: June 5th - 6th, Sydney, Australia
• Core Spring: June 23rd - 26th, Brisbane, Australia
• Core Web Services: June 26th - 27th, Wellington, New Zealand
• Core Spring: July 1st - 4th - Hong Kong
• Core Web Services: July 10th - 11th, Hong Kong
• Core Spring: July 15th - 18th, Singapore
• Core Web Services: July 24th - 25th, Bangalore, India
  
• Core Spring: July 29 - August 1st, Bangalore, India
  

... plus others

Filip Hanik explains deployment options for SpringSource Application Platform and Apache Tomcat to a crowd of attendees.	Rod Johnson congratulates the lucky winner of the MacBook Air drawing.

For anyone who did not get a chance to meet the Spring technologists at JavaOne be sure to register for SpringOne 2008.

Dear Spring community,
We are pleased to announce that Spring Batch 1.0.1.RELEASE has been released!

Downloads | Site | Changelog

This release focuses on bug-fixes and improvements in documentation.

Dear Spring community,

I'm pleased to announce that Spring Web Services 1.5.1 has been released!

Downloads | Site | Changelog | Announcement

Spring Security 2.0.1 is now available.

Download | Changelog | Announcement | Web Site

Spring Security 2.0.1 provides a number of fixes to the recent 2.0.0 release. It also offers some further improvements in relation to OSGi support, extended namespace configuration, and cryptographically-strong token generation. It is entirely backward compatible with 2.0.0 and can be used as a drop-in JAR replacement.