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 3.1 adds significant new support for environments. This new Environment API makes it easy to expose properties to an application or conditionally load a fragment of configuration. In an earlier post in this series, Ramnivas showed how Cloud Foundry can automatically connect to a database without manual configuration. When you need more control over 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 is my pleasure to announce that the first Spring Framework 3.1 release candidate has – finally – been released this week! We have been working on this release for several months, completing our milestone work and recently adding support for Java SE 7 and for Hibernate 4.0 to the feature list. Spring Framework 3.1 Read more…

As Jürgen Höller mentioned in his post announcing the release of Spring 3.1 M2, the Spring TestContext Framework(*) has been overhauled to provide first-class testing support for @Configuration classes and environment profiles. In this post I'll first walk you through some examples that demonstrate these new testing features. I'll then cover some of the new Read more…

This post focuses on what's new for Spring MVC in Spring 3.1 M2. Here are the topics: Code-based equivalent for the MVC namespace. Customizable @MVC processing. Programming model improvements. A brief reminder that the features discussed here are in action at the Greenhouse project. Code-based Configuration For Spring MVC As Chris pointed out in his Read more…

As Juergen mentioned in his post yesterday, and as I've mentioned in my previous posts on 3.1 M1, one of the major themes of Spring 3.1 is completing our vision for code-based configuration in Spring. We think a modern enterprise Java application should have a choice between Java and XML as first class options for Read more…

Spring Framework 3.1 M2 has been released this week, marking the end of the 3.1 milestone phase. We are moving on to the release candidate phase now, preparing for a feature-complete RC1 in July and a GA release in September. 3.1 M2 completes the work on several major themes started in 3.1 M1 back in Read more…

Traditionally, applications have been defined by the principle technology they use. If you're building a Spring MVC application, we call it a "Java app". Since our application is primarily composed of Java components, we tend to stay in our own yards and not be terribly friendly with our neighbors until we're forced to interact with Read more…

One of the major features added in Spring Framework 3.1 M1 is the generic cache abstraction for transparently applying caching to Spring applications. Just like the transaction support, the caching abstraction allows consistent use of various caching solutions with minimal impact on the code. Purpose Caches are in general used to improve application performance by Read more…