Today we're happy to announce that the Spring Framework has moved to GitHub! As you've probably noticed, nearly every other Spring project has already made the move, and those that haven't will soon. Git helps us with many of the challenges of managing a large codebase like the Spring Framework, but what's most exciting is Read more…

Amidst the flurry of Spring releases this month, Spring Python has it's own. Versions 1.1.1 and 1.2.1 are maintenance releases that patch some bugs. Version 1.3.0.RC1 is the first release of 1.3.0. In this release we have commits from team members, and have also merged pull requests through github. If you want to make contributions Read more…

It is my pleasure to announce that Spring Roo 1.2 GA has just been released. This release represents a significant amount of engineering effort by the Roo team and includes all the most popular features that the Roo user community have requested as well as many performance and usability improvements. The new features of Roo Read more…

After nearly a year in development, we are extremely excited to announce the GA release of Grails 2.0 – the second major revision of the web framework that is changing the face of web development on the JVM. This release brings a greatly enhanced user experience. Everything from the command line, to the test reports, Read more…

Welcome to this final Countdown to Grails 2.0 post: the final release is imminent! I'm not really going to say much here because some of the most interesting new features of Grails 2.0 are much better seen. For that reason, I've created a screencast so you can see exactly what awaits you when you install Read more…

It is my pleasure to announce that Spring Framework 3.1 becomes generally available today! This release delivers several key features that make Spring ready for the challenges of 2012 and beyond: * The environment abstraction and the associated bean definition profiles, along with centrally configurable property sources for placeholder resolution. * Java-based application configuration based Read more…

Spring Integration scripting support, available in the 2.1 release, builds upon the Groovy scripting support introduced in 2.0.  If you are familiar with Spring Integration, consider scripting support as another tool in your toolbox that you will find useful in certain situations.  If you have existing code written in languages such as Groovy, Python, Ruby, Read more…

It's been a while since the last Countdown blog post, but the release of 2.0.0.RC3 gives me a good reason to write another. In the last post, I focused on database migration and how we are standardising on the new Database Migration Plugin. I'll be continuing on the theme of persistence here and introducing several Read more…