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Spring Framework Training Summary (May)

Fri, 9 May 2008 15:33:07 -0500

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 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

JavaOne 2008: From the show floor - Day Three

Fri, 9 May 2008 12:12:30 -0500

The third day of JavaOne 2008 was even busier for the SpringSource technologists than the first two. The SpringSource Application Platform t-shirt was a big hit with hundreds of people wearing them at the show. The booth was crowded with people looking to see demos of the SpringSource Application Platform and other Spring projects. In advance of his technical session on Friday, Ben Alex was answering lots of questions about Spring Security.


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.

Spring Batch 1.0.1 Released

Wed, 7 May 2008 09:25:17 -0500

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.

JavaOne 2008: From the show floor - Day One

Wed, 7 May 2008 01:20:33 -0500

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

Spring Web Services 1.5.1 Released

Sun, 4 May 2008 07:51:48 -0500

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 Released

Fri, 2 May 2008 18:32:41 -0500

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.

SpringSource Application Platform Beta Released

Wed, 30 Apr 2008 19:13:45 -0500

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:

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

SpringOne 2008 Open for Registration

Sun, 27 Apr 2008 19:58:16 -0500

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 Sessions at JavaOne 2008

Wed, 23 Apr 2008 18:05:05 -0500

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.

Application Management Suite 1.0.0.RC1 released

Thu, 17 Apr 2008 13:19:13 -0500

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.

Spring Integration 1.0.0 M3 Released

Mon, 7 Apr 2008 17:52:13 -0500

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

Spring .NET 1.1.1 Released

Mon, 7 Apr 2008 12:36:45 -0500

Dear Spring Community,

We are pleased to announce that Spring .NET 1.1.1 has been released.

Download | Site | Documentation | Changelog

This is primarily a bugfix and enhancement release but some minor new features were introduced:

ParameterValidationAdvice to validate method arguments.
A Required attribute and RequiredObjectFactoryPostProcessor for enforcing the configuration of required properties.
ASP.NET Panel control to disable DI on custom user controls.

Spring Framework 2.5.3 Released

Mon, 7 Apr 2008 06:23:01 -0500

Dear Spring community,

I'm pleased to announce that Spring Framework 2.5.3 has been released! Download | Documentation

This is the third update release in the Spring 2.5 series. It fixes issues reported since 2.5.2 and introduces various enhancements, such as:

@Autowired and @Required annotations interact more intuitively
ControllerClassNameHandlerMapping detects @Controller beans by default
"bean(...)" pointcut designator matches against bean aliases as well
Spring 2.5 "jee:*" config elements use resource-ref="true" by default
new CachingConnectionFactory for JMS session and producer pooling
new DB2MainframeSequenceMaxValueIncrementer for DB2/390 and DB2/400

Please see the changelog for details. We recommend upgrading to Spring 2.5.3 from all previous Spring 2.5.x releases!

Spring Framework Training Summary (April)

Fri, 4 Apr 2008 11:36:08 -0500

USA and Canada

Core Spring: April 8th - 11th, Washington, DC
Core Spring: April 15th - 18th, Columbia, MD
Core Spring: April 22nd - 25th, Chicago, IL
Core Spring .NET: April 29th - May 1st, New York, NY
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

Europe & Middle East

Core Spring: April 8th - 11th, Stockholm, Sweden
Core Spring: April 8th - 11th, Paris, France
Core Web Services: April 10th - 11th, London, UK
Core Spring: April 15th - 18th , Frankfurt, Germany (in German)
Core Spring: April 15th - 18th, Copenhagen, Denmark
Core Spring .NET: April 16th - 18th, London, UK
Core Spring: April 22nd - 25th, Manchester, UK
Beginning Enterprise Java Development: April 22nd - 25th, Amsterdam, NL
Core Spring: April 29th - May 2nd, London, UK
Core Spring: May 6th - 9th, Helsinki, Finland
Core Spring: May 13th - 16th, Rome, Italy
Beginning Enterprise Java Development: May 20th - 23, London, UK
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: June 24th - 27th, London, UK
Beginning Enterprise Java Development: June 24th - 27th, 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: May 26th - 27th, Brisbane, 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

... plus others

Spring Security 2.0.0 RC1 Released

Tue, 1 Apr 2008 17:23:13 -0500

Spring Security 2.0.0 RC1 is now available.

Download | Changelog | Announcement

Over 65 issues have been addressed, including OpenID integration, a new "protect-pointcut" for AspectJ expressions, dynamic retrieval of method authorization metadata, support for method authorization on all method types (interface, class, bridge, generic, superclass), restful URI authorization, namespace improvements, dependency updates and much more!