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.

The first day of JavaOne 2008 was full of frantic activity around Spring and SpringSource products. The SpringSource booth was flooded with people asking all sorts of fascinating questions about SpringSource Application Platform, SpringSource Tool Suite and SpringSource Application Management Suite. Rod Johnson's technical session, Spring 2.5: New and Notable, was totally packed to capacity - I guess that is why he has been asked to repeat the session on Friday afternoon!

Rod Johnson discusses the SpringSource Application Platform	Jennifer Hickey demonstrates SpringSource Application Management Suite

SpringSource is pleased to offer a number of Spring Framework 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:

• USA and Canada
• Core Spring: May 6th - 9th, Raleigh, NC
• Core Spring: May 13th - 16th, Washington (Dulles)
• Core AOP: May 14th - 15h, New York, NY
• 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 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 6th - 9th, Helsinki, Finland
• 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 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
• 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

• Australia/Asia/Other
• Core Spring: May 6th - 9th, Wellington, New Zealand
• Core Spring: May 12th - 15th, Auckland, New Zealand
• Core Spring: May 13th - 16th, Melbourne, Australia
• Core Spring: May 19th - 22nd, Sydney, 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

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.

Today marks the beta release of SpringSource Application Platform, a completely module-based Java application server that is based on the new SpringSource Dynamic Module Kernel™ (dm-Kernel). The dm-Kernel harnesses the power of Spring, Apache Tomcat and OSGi-based technologies to give the platform incredible flexibility and resilience for both development and production.

Rob Harrop has written an excellent blog post about the basic architecture for the SpringSource Application Platform that serves as a solid introduction. Interested community members can find more information at the following resources:

• SpringSource Application Platform Beta Download
• User's Guide
• Programmer's Guide
• SpringSource Enterprise Bundle Repository

Be sure to check out the Application Platform and add your comments to the discussion.

Register now for SpringOne 2008, the premiere European conference on Spring technologies and SpringSource products. The event is being held in Antwerp, Belgium on 11th & 12th June 2008. All the Spring technical thought leaders and experts will be there, including Rod Johnson and Adrian Colyer. If you want to learn how the experts use Spring, find out what is on the roadmap for upcoming releases or pick up tips to make your Spring applications run faster, then SpringOne is the place to be.

Spring will once again be one of the hot topics being discussed at JavaOne 2008. There are multiple technical sessions presented by SpringSource thought leaders:

•  Spring Framework 2.5: New and Notable (TS-6169) by Rod Johnson
•  Patterns of and Solutions to Challenges of Offline and Batch Processing (TS-6587) by Dave Syer
•  Addressing Tomorrow’s Security Requirements in Enterprise Applications (TS-6348) by Ben Alex

SpringSource will also have a booth in the Exhibit Hall, so be sure to come by booth 218 to meet theSpring experts and get some SpringSource goodies.  

SpringSource Application Management Suite 1.0.0.RC1 is now available in the SpringSource beta program. Highlights of this release include:

• The supported platforms for Spring services to be discovered and displayed in the AMS dashboard has been extended to include JBoss Application Server (v3.2+).
• Metrics of stereotyped components (@Component, @Service, @Transactional, @Controller, and @Repository) are now visible in the AMS dashboard.
• A ResetMetrics operation to all applicable managed resources has been added as a Control Action.

Download the latest version here.

Dear Spring community,

We are pleased to announce that Spring Integration 1.0.0.M3 has been released.
Download | Reference Documentation | JavaDoc

To see a list of the new features and improvements since Milestone 2, view the changelog. For more information, visit the Spring Integration Home.

Mark Fisher
Spring Integration Lead