
Introducing Spring Migration Analyzer
It's my pleasure to announce that we've released the first milestone of Spring Migration Analyzer (SMA), a command-line utility that analyzes enterprise Java applications and produces a report describing the application and how it can be migrated to Spring. Why migrate an application to Spring? We see two main reasons when people choose to use Read more…

Dependency analysis in Scripted
Scripted, a JavaScript editor from VMWare was announced on this blog last month. In this article we'll take a look under the hood at Scripted's Dependency Analysis Engine. But before diving into the details, lets motivate why we need it. Main Motivation: Cross-file Content Assist To provide a great JavaScript editing experience, Scripted needs to Read more…

Spring Framework 3.2 RC1: Spring MVC Test Framework
Update Dec 19, 2012 The final Spring Framework reference documentation contains guidance on migration as well as a complete section on Spring MVC Test. Last week Juergen Hoeller announced the release of Spring Framework 3.2 RC1 and Sam Brannen discussed exciting additions in its spring-test module such as support for WebApplicationContext's and upcoming plans for Read more…

Spring Framework 3.2 RC1: New Testing Features
As Juergen Hoeller mentioned in his post announcing the release of Spring Framework 3.2 RC1, the Spring Team has introduced some exciting new features in terms of testing support. Most importantly, we've added first-class support for testing web applications. [1] Please note: this is a cross post from my Swiftmind company blog. In this post Read more…

A Groovy DSL For Spring Integration
Spring Integration implements Enterprise Integration Patterrns using the Spring programming model to enable messaging in Spring-based applications. Spring Integration also provides integration with external systems using declarative adapters supporting jms, http, amqp, tcp, ftp(s), smtp, and so on. Currently, configuring message flows is primarily done via Spring XML and Spring Integration supports several namespaces to Read more…

Spring Framework 3.2 RC1 released
Dear Spring community, I'm pleased to announce that the first Spring Framework 3.2 release candidate is now available. This generation of the core framework is a straightforward next step after last year's Spring Framework 3.1, continuing several well-established themes. Key features in Spring Framework 3.2 include: * A new Gradle-based framework build, making it easier Read more…

