The Spring Integration team proudly announces the availability of the Spring Integration Extensions repository. The main goal for this new GitHub-based repository is to promote a vibrant community of adapter and extension developers, and to encourage a broader segment of the community to contribute to the project. The Spring Integration Extensions project is hosted at: Read more…

Introduction We are proud to announce that the newest major release of our Eclipse-based developer tooling is now available. This is a major release not only in terms new features but because of other serious changes like componentization, open-sourcing and the fact that for the first time we are making multiple distributions available, each tailored Read more…

The last ten years has been an exciting and challenging journey for me and I’m very proud of the technology and community that my SpringSource cofounders and I fostered. However, there always comes a time to make a choice about the places you’ll go, and it’s time for me to leave VMware and pursue other Read more…

The Groovy development team and SpringSource are happy to echo the announcement of the release of Groovy 2.0, the highly popular dynamic language for the Java platform. The key highlights of this important milestone are: a static type checker to let the compiler tell you about the correctness of your code, static compilation for the performance Read more…

Introduction Over the last year a number of significant changes have been made to the infrastructure and processes we use to keep the Spring family of projects running smoothly. You may have seen individual announcements about some of these as they happened, while others may have slipped under your radar. I'll recap these changes below. Read more…

I am happy to announce that the second milestone (1.0.0.M2) of Spring for Apache Hadoop project is available. In this blog post, I would like to quickly highlight the major new features in M2. HBase DAO support One of the most versatile and powerful feature in Spring Framework is the Data Access Object (or DAO) Read more…

I am happy to announce that the first milestone release (1.0.0.M1) for Spring for Apache Hadoop project is available and talk about some of the work we have been doing over the last few months. Part of the Spring Data umbrella, Spring for Apache Hadoop provides support for developing applications based on Apache Hadoop technologies Read more…

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…

We saw in the previous blog post Using Cloud Foundry Services with Spring: Part 2 – Auto-reconfiguration that when you deploy a Spring application, your use of data services will be detected, and your application will automatically be re-configured to use the cloud services available to your application. This works great for simple applications and Read more…

It has been a while since my initial posts on using Maven with Spring Android, and the state of the tools has changed somewhat. With the recent release of the SDK for Android 4.0 and revision 14 of the Android Development Tools (ADT), Google made several changes that impacted the third party Maven plugin support Read more…