Performance Improvements in STS 3.2.0
The latest release of the Spring Tool Suite (3.2.0) contains a large number of performance improvements in many different areas. We are not only adopting the latest improvements from the Eclipse Juno SR2 maintenance release (which fixes a large number of performance issues with the new Eclipse 4 platform UI), we also worked on the Read more…
Spring at China Scale: Alibaba Group (Alipay, TaoBao, and TMall)
So What Does It Take to Operate at China Scale? The challenges inherent to building enterprise applications that meet China-scale demand are unparalleled. One exemplary Chinese organization using Spring heavily to solve very unique challenges is the Alibaba group. Alibaba is itself an online auction site, like eBay in the west. The Alibaba group in Read more…
Spring for Apache Hadoop 1.0 Goes GA
We are happy to announce the first GA release (1.0) for Spring for Apache Hadoop, almost one year to the date from the release of its first milestone release. During that time we have incorporated a great deal of your feedback to drive the road-map, so thanks everyone from the community who have helped! While Read more…
Next Stop: Spring Framework 4.0
Dear Spring community, I'm happy to announce that the next iteration of the core framework will be Spring Framework 4.0! The current 3.2 generation is a natural conclusion of the 3.x line, with Java-based configuration and REST having been recent focus areas next to Java SE 7 and Servlet 3.0 support. For Spring Framework 4.0, Read more…
Spring Roo 1.2.3.RELEASE available
The Spring Roo team is pleased to announce the availability 1.2.3.RELEASE. This is the third maintenance release for 1.2 and includes fixes for a number of issues and includes support for Spring Framework 3.2.0. Please see the change log for a list of the bugs and improvements completed. I hope you enjoy this new release! Read more…
Spring Security 3.2 M1 Highlights, Servlet 3 API Support
Last week I announced the release of Spring Security 3.2 M1 that contains improved Servlet 3 support. In this post, I will introduce some of the more exciting features found in the 3.2 M1 release. Specifically, we will take a look at the following new Spring Security features: Concurrency Support Servlet 3 API Integration Servlet Read more…
Spring Framework 3.2 goes GA
Dear Spring community, Exactly one year after the Spring Framework 3.1 release, I'm pleased to announce that Spring Framework 3.2 is generally available now! We recommend an upgrade from all previous Spring releases, in particular from Spring Framework 3.1.x which this is a direct successor for. As previously discussed, key features in Spring Framework 3.2 Read more…
Introducing Spring Scala
Last October, at SpringOne2GX, I introduced the Spring Scala project to the world. Since then, I've also presented this project at Devoxx. In this blog post, I would like to give further details about this project and how you can use it in your Scala projects. Why Spring Scala? The goal of the Spring Scala Read more…
IOC + Javascript at SpringOne 2GX
by Brian Cavalier & John Hann We gave a talk on IOC + Javascript at SpringOne 2GX. Front-end web application architecture seemed to be quite a hot topic at the conference, in general, and our talk seemed to be very well received. Here are the video and slides from the talk. We'll also be starting a blog series about architectural Read more…
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…
