DZone has just published a reference card for Spring 2.5 Configuration. The card was written by the very knowledgeable Craig Walls and provides exhaustive details about all the XML configuration options for your Spring 2.5 contexts. It provides a handy desktop reference for any developer building Spring powered applications. XML averse developers should also check out the options in Spring 2.5 for annotation based configuration.

One of the goals of Spring MVC has always been to allow you to test your controllers right inside your IDE, without having to fire up your web app in a servlet engine. It's always gratifying during trainings to see the faces of old-time Struts developers light up as they see just how easy this is to achieve. Here are a couple of blog entries I came across recently which give a glimpse into the Spring MVC testing experience:

Craig Walls: Unit-testing Spring MVC: It gets even awesomer

John Ferguson Smart: Unit testing your Spring-MVC applications

There has been some recent blogging about the upcoming Spring Tools Suite:

Adrian Colyer: The Spring Tool Suite

Mik Kersten: The Tasktop and Interface21 partnership: people, technologies and Eclipse

Mik Kersten: Why the Spring Tool Suite is building on Eclipse

InfoQ: Interface21 and Tasktop Discuss The Upcoming Spring Tool Suite

Spring Web Services has been attracting a lot of attention since its release last month. In this DDJ Interview, Arjen Poutsma, project lead for the Spring Web Services framework, talks about the importance of flexibility in addressing the O/X "impedance mismatch" between XML and Java.

For some more discussion on the same topic, also see this ServerSide thread.

Finally, with Spring Web Services as a released product, Interface21 is now offering a 2-day training course just on this topic!

Andy Piper of BEA has just blogged on WebLogic Event Server - Why we used Spring. One key driver for BEA making Spring central to this product's programming model: Spring's ubiquity. "The answer is pretty simple - use something that developers are already familiar with. Hence, in a word, Spring."

Andy also discusses how BEA were able to use Spring 2.x's extensible configuration mechanism to create a domain specific language for network assembly.

WebLogic Event Server 2.0 is designed for extremely demanding applications. It provides a lightweight front-office infrastructure for low latency, event-driven applications.

Spring is also used in the core of  BEA WebLogic Server 10.

This eWeek article describes the large amount of OSGi related activity at EclipseCon, including several mentions of Spring and the Spring-OSGi project. Spring-OSGi is still pre-release, but has already been generating a lot of interest and excitement in the Spring user community.

InfoQ's Stefan Tilkov talks to Spring Web Services creator Arjen Poutsma about Web services in general and the Spring support in particular, in this nice interview: Arjen Poutsma on Spring Web Services. The Spring Web Services project is a relatively new part of the Spring stack that is focused on the easy creation of document-driven Web services and aims to facilitate contract-first SOAP service development.

More links to The Spring Experience 2006 Day 2 and Day 3 sessions and activities :

Day 2:

Stephan Schwab: [TSE] System Integration Testing with Spring

Matt Raible: [TSE] The Holy Grails of Web Frameworks with Guillaume LaForge

Matt Raible: [TSE] Spring-OSGI with Adrian Colyer

Matt Raible: [TSE] Keynote: The Bigger Picture with Adrian Colyer

Cameron Purdy: Grid Summit

WillCode4Beer:  Hidden Gems Notes

WillCode4Beer:  Myth Buster: Spring is XML Hell

Day 3:

The Spring Experience 2006 conference kicked off on Thursday night (Dec. 7th) with ~400 happy Spring developers in attendance. That evening's dinner keynote by Rod Johnson was followed by the first full day of content on Friday.

Here are a dozen or so blog posts and links I've found for the first keynote and day 1 sessions (click on the post link or "read more" to see the full content!):

infoq: Rod Johnson: 2006 the year Spring became Ubiquitous

Eamonn McManus: The Spring Experience 2006

Craig Walls: Top 10 things that I'll be doing instead of going to The Spring Experience
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The Oracle OpenWorld conference taking place Oct. 22-26, features a number of sessions about or including Spring Framework, including one by Rod Johnson.