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Spring (Acegi) Security 2.0 Adds OpenID Support, REST Capabilities, and Performance Improvements
Spring Security 2.0 has been released after almost two years of development. This new release replaces Acegi Security as the official security module for Spring applications and includes significant enhancements and new features.
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Spring Web Flow 2.0.0.RC1 Released; Adds Ajax, JSF, and Security Integration
InfoQ sat down with Keith Donald and Jeremy Grelle of the Spring Web team to discuss the release of Web Flow 2.0.0.RC1, the first production release candidate for the next major release of Web Flow. Web Flow is an extension to Spring MVC for implementing flows in a web application.
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Try to get the best of your Statically Typed Language
The use of dynamic type-checking in static languages is often perceived as unavoidable on complex projects, even though workarounds necessary to enforce it tend to negatively impact the quality of code. According to Debasish Ghosh, features in static languages, i.e. Java generics, offer an opportunity to avoid runtime type checking and optimize the advantages of static typing.
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SpringSource Enterprise Delivers Enhanced Spring Support and Monitoring Capabilities
Today SpringSource announced the availability of SpringSource Enterprise, which includes a certified and indemnified version of the popular Spring software stack for enterprise Java development as well as production and development capabilities and support.
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SpringSource Announces Acquisition by Microsoft
In a surprise announcement, SpringSource CEO Rod Johnson announced that SpringSource has agreed to be acquired by Microsoft. InfoQ interviewed Johnson to learn more about this acquisition and what it will mean for the future of both Spring and the .Net Framework.
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Enhanced Manageability with OSGi, SCA, BPEL and Spring
Ever since the OpenSOA initiative published the white paper entitled: "Power Combination, SCA, OSGi and Spring", the combination of these three technologies has generated some interest. In a recent post, William Vambenepe explores potential new management capabilities for this type of SOA platform.
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Spring Overtakes EJB as a Skills Requirement?
Job listings comparisons on Indeed.com show Spring surpassing EJB. Using this observation, SpringSource CEO Rod Johnson, argues that EJB is becoming legacy and that the EJB3.0 spec is doing too little, too late to prevent this trend. Do these comparisons indeed reflect significant shifts in the choices companies are making in regards to their core components for Java enterprise development?
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Interview: Rod Johnson discusses the Spring Portfolio
In this interview from QCon San Francisco, SpringSource CEO Rod Johnson discusses the origins and philosophy of Spring, the Spring Portfolio, Spring Web Flow, Spring Batch, Spring.Net, the partnership with Tasktop Technologies, and community involvement and utilization of Spring.
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Mark Pollack on Spring and Spring.NET
Mark Pollack, founder of Spring.NET, talks about shares ideas between the Java and .NET communities and the history of Spring.NET. Topics include how to use dependency injection and AOP for more than just logging and where Spring.NET overlaps with WCF.
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Dependency Injection: New Ground or Solid Footing?
Dependency Injection seems like a shiny new tool in the toolbox. Andrew McVeigh tells us that DI shares a long history with architecture description languages (ADLs), simple yet sophisticated languages for component-based development through descriptive wiring. This article looks at the history of ADLs and sheds light on possible future directions of dependency injection.
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SpringSource Expands Service and Support Offerings by Acquiring Covalent
Today SpringSource announced the acquisition of Covalent Technologies. The acquisition comes 10 months after SpringSource (formerly Interface21) announced it had received $10 million in Series A financing from Benchmark Capital.
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Presentation: Using AOP in the Enterprise
In this presentation from QCon San Francisco 2007, SpringSource CTO and AspectJ project lead Adrian Colyer discusses where Aspect-Oriented Programming (AOP) should be used, practical applications of AOP in enterprise situations such as Hibernate exception translation and automatic operation retry on nonfatal exceptions, and AOP mechanisms in Spring 2.5.
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SpringSource Announces Commercial Software Strategy, Spring Integration
At The Spring Experience yesterday, SpringSource (the company behind Spring) announced their commercial software subscription strategy as well as Spring Integration, a new EAI framework. Spring Certification will also be coming in 2008. InfoQ video interviewed Spring founder Rod Johnson & SpringSource COO Neelan Choksi to get the news from the source.
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SpringSource's Adrian Colyer Details Spring in Production
Adrian Colyer from SpringSource hosted a webinar on "Spring In Production" topic three weeks ago. The presentation covered the topics on Spring Runtime Kernel architecture, how Spring supports enterprise services like transactions, data access, security, and messaging, and how to tune a Spring-powered application.
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Article: What's New in Spring 2.5: Part 1: Annotation-Based Configuration
Spring 2.5 was released on November 19th, 2007 and with it, the first article in a series Mark Fisher of SpringSource (Interface21) about the annotation-based configuration options available in Spring 2.5: annotation support for dependency injection, auto-detection of Spring components on the classpath and lifecycle methods.