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First Spring 2.0 Release Candidate is Out
The first release candidate for Spring 2.0 has been released. Spring 2.0 is a major new release, some of the notable enhancements include simplified configuration, AspectJ annotation support, EJB JPA support, a task executor framework and asychronous pojo's, convention-based Spring MVC update, and more. The new Spring PetClinic showing Spring+JPA is also included.
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Book: Java Transaction Design Strategies Published
InfoQ's first book, Java Transaction Design Strategies has been published! The book is available for free download and the published print version is available for $22.95. Written by IBM architect and nofluff speaker Mark Richards, the book is one of the very few works on transactions, and definitely one of the most practical.
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Acegi Security System for Spring 1.0 is out
Acegi Security 1.0 has just been released, after more than two and a half years of use in large production software projects, 70,000+ downloads and hundreds of community contributions. The Acegi framework is particularly useful with Spring, it offers authentication, authorization, instance-based access control, channel security and human user detection capabilities.
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Pitchfork: EJB 3 Interception & Injection to WebLogic using Spring
Spring 2.0 is now being used by BEA to provide EJB 3 dependency injection and interception, the result of Pitchfork, a new Spring add-on project by BEA and Interface21 that allows Spring to provide JSR 250 dependency injection and EJB style interception. WebLogic users can also use additional Spring features over the EJB spec, and Pitchfork may be used by other Java EE servers in the future.