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 Web Services 2.0 Released
After being in the works for almost a year, I'm happy to announce that Spring Web Services 2.0 has been released! In this post, I'd like to go over some of the major new features. Java 5+ and Spring 3.0 Required As you are probably aware, we moved the Object XML Mapping (OXM) module from Read more…
Spring Integration 2.0 Milestone 3 Released
The 3rd development milestone for Spring Integration 2.0 was released last week (download it here). If you have read Oleg's recent blog, you already know that we have started working on a new reference sample implementation based on the "Loan Broker" example that plays a significant role in Gregor Hohpe and Bobby Woolf's Enterprise Integration Read more…
REST in Spring 3: @MVC
In the last couple of years, REST has emerged as a compelling alternative to SOAP/WSDL/WS-*-based distributed architectures. So when we started to plan our work on the next major release of Spring – version 3.0, it was quite clear to us that we had to focus on making the development of 'RESTful' Web services and Read more…
What's New in Spring Web Services 1.5?
After being in the works for about six months, I'm happy to announce that Spring Web Services 1.5.0 has been released! In this post, I'd like to go over some of the major new features. New Transports The 1.5 release includes two new transports: JMS and email. Using these new transports requires no Java code Read more…
Spring: simple, not simplistic…
…and a little tale about why Spring does not necessarily lead to less code and certainly wasn't designed with this in mind (although of course it is a nice side-effect).
XPath Support in Spring Web Services
Following up on my post on WS-DuckTyping, I thought it would be interesting to show what support Spring Web Services offers for XPath. Some of these features are available right now, but most will be part of the RC1 release we will release later this month. Throughout this post I will be using the contacts Read more…
