Spring 3.1 and Beyond – Themes and Trends
Jürgen Höller reviews the major elements of Spring 3.1 and takes a peak into upcoming features in Spring 3.2 such as multi-core concurrent programming support for Java SE 7.
Jürgen Höller reviews the major elements of Spring 3.1 and takes a peak into upcoming features in Spring 3.2 such as multi-core concurrent programming support for Java SE 7.

Juergen discusses transactions as key to enterprise applications, the different types of transactions, the supposed universality of XA transactions and the alternative of using native transactions using the Spring framework. He talks about native transaction support by modern application frameworks and shares scenarios of Spring Framework users to illustrate the power of native transactions.

Jürgen Höller presents some of the new features coming in Java EE 6 and how their relate to Spring Framework: Profiles, Servlet 3.0, JSR-236 Concurrency, JSF 2.0, JPA 2.0, JSR-303, JAX-RS, EJB 3.1, JSR-299.