As you may have seen, the first milestone of Spring Framework 4.0 was already announced and with it we've released early WebSocket support. Why WebSocket matters? It enables efficient, two-way communication over the web that is essential in applications where messages need to be exchanged between client (typically browser) and server at high frequency and Read more…

Dear Spring community, It's my pleasure to announce the first milestone towards Spring Framework 4.0, delivering a first cut of our work on several key themes: the first wave of Java SE 8 / OpenJDK 8 support (some details following below) initial support for JMS 2.0, JPA 2.1, Bean Validation 1.1, and JSR-236 concurrency (from Read more…

We’re pleased to announce that, after a long period of internal incubation, we’re releasing a foundational framework for asynchronous applications on the JVM which we’re calling Reactor. It provides abstractions for Java, Groovy and other JVM languages to make building event and data-driven applications easier. It’s also really fast. On modest hardware, it's possible to Read more…