Spring Roo 1.0.0 Released
We're delighted to announce the general availability (GA) of Spring Roo 1.0.0. Spring Roo is a next-generation rapid application development tool for Java developers. With Roo you can easily build full Java applications in minutes. It differs from other tools by focusing on: Higher Java productivity: Try the ten minute test and see for yourself. Read more…
Grails 1.2 Released
Continuing the release train, today we are excited to announce the general availability of Grails 1.2 final. Representing the most stable and performant Grails release yet, Grails 1.2 is a significant new release of the premier dynamic language framework for the JVM. As well as featuring all of the goodness of Spring 3, this release has a Read more…
Bundlor 1.0.0.RC1 Available
I'm very excited to announce that Bundlor 1.0.0.RC1 is now available. There have been numerous changes to Bundlor since the M6 release including additions to detection and warning criteria as well as improvements to the ANT and Maven configurations. This milestone marks feature-complete status for the 1.0.0 release. Baring any major issues, this candidate will Read more…
Configuration Simplifications in Spring 3.0
Second in a series of posts on "Spring 3 Simplifications" started yesterday by Keith, I'd like to provide a very brief and hands-on introduction to Spring's new @Configuration annotation and related support. As those that followed the Spring JavaConfig project will know, a @Configuration-annotated class serves much the same role as a Spring XML file. Read more…
Groovy 1.7 released
The Groovy development team and SpringSource are very pleased to announce the final release of Groovy 1.7, the most popular and successful dynamic language for the JVM! After two betas and two release candidates, we're are happy to deliver this new and very important milestone to our ever-growing user base. Over the years, the Groovy Read more…
MVC Simplifications in Spring 3.0
As Juergen and Arjen have mentioned, Java developers everywhere have a smooth upgrade with Spring 3.0. Now that Spring 3 is out, I'd like to take you through some of the new MVC features you may not know about. I hope you find these features useful and can start putting them to work in your Read more…
dm Server 2.0 RC1 released
Hot on the heels of Spring 3.0 and Spring DM 1.2.1, I'm delighted to announce that dm Server 2.0 RC1 is now available. RC1 is feature complete and, barring any major problems being found, will be the final 2.0 release early in the new year. So, please download the RC and give us your feedback: Read more…
Spring Framework 3.0 goes GA
After a long ride, it is my pleasure to announce that Spring 3.0 GA (.RELEASE) is finally available (download page)! All of SpringSource is celebrating – join the party For some very recent news, Spring 3.0 GA is compatible with Java EE 6 final in terms of runtime environments now (e.g. on GlassFish v3 as Read more…
VI Java API and CloudTools
Steve Jin, the creator of The Virtual Infrastructure Java API or vSphere API, recently contributed the work he had done for the VMworld 2009 keynote sessions to the CloudTools repository. CloudTools is the open source project that provides the core infrastructure provisioning and application deployment functionalities to Cloud Foundry. Steve's code not only demonstrates how Read more…
Logging Dependencies in Spring
This article deals with the choices that Spring makes and the options that developers have for logging in applications built with Spring. This is timed to coincide with the imminent release of Spring 3.0 not because we have changed anything much (although we are being more careful with dependency metadata now), but so that you Read more…
