Dear Spring Community I'm pleased to announce that we just released SpringSource Tool Suite (STS) 2.5.2.RELEASE. Some highlights from the new release: * Support for Spring Roo 1.1.1.RELEASE * Easy creation of new tc Server instances * Improved graphical Spring Web Flow editor * Agent-based reloading (experimental) * A large number of improvements to the Spring and Groovy/Grails tooling * Integration of Spring User Agent Analysis (UAA) More details on new features and bug fixes can be found in the New and Noteworthy document. Detailed installation instructions are also available. As always downloads are available from the STS Download page. Feel free to stop by the community support forum if you have any question or issue. ... more »

The purpose of this tutorial is to demonstrate the technical solution for integration of 4 leading frameworks: * Maven * Spring * Hibernate * Struts2 Such a combination allow the development of you web applications with maximal of flexibility and minimal effort. In addition, the integration with SVN will be also demonstrated to enable the efficient development.... more »

Developing applications with GWT can be seen as a straightforward job, but you should ask some interesting questions to unlock the way to powerful, distinct, applications. What kind of applications should you develop with GWT? (And, given the current push for Cloud Computing, you can even add "Where would you deploy your application?") How can you go about it? And, why would you use GWT?... more »

SpringSource has just released a new milestone version of SpringSource Tool Suite: 2.3.2.M2. STS provides the best Eclipse-powered development environment for building Spring and Grails powered enterprise applications. Here are some highlights from the release: * integration with GWT and Google App Engine * visual editor for Spring Integration * support for Spring Roo 1.1.0.M2 * non-locking class loader infrastructure * new Grails Project Explorer, Perspective and Plugin Manager * new Subclipse and Subversive extension installs ... more »

The Spring AMQP project applies core Spring concepts to the development of AMQP-based messaging solutions. We provide a "template" as a high-level abstraction for sending and receiving messages. We also provide support for Message-driven POJOs. These libraries facilitate management of AMQP resources while promoting the use of dependency injection and declarative configuration. In all of these cases, you will see similarities to the JMS support in the Spring Framework. The project consists of both Java and .NET versions.... more »

I'm pleased to announce we've just released Spring Roo 1.1.0.M2 (download here). We've also concurrently released SpringSource Tool Suite 2.3.3.M2, which offers the latest integration with this new Spring Roo release. For production use we recommend you continue to use Spring Roo 1.0.2, although we know a very large number of people are happily using the Roo 1.1.0 development releases as well.... more »

The first Apache Tomcat 7 release, Tomcat 7.0.0 beta, is now available from the Tomcat 7 download page at the Apache Software Foundation. SpringSource's Tomcat expert, Mark Thomas, describes the details of the release at TomcatExpert.com.In addition to the implementation of the Servlet 3.0, JSP 2.2 and EL 2.2 specifications, Tomcat 7 boasts a number of new features:... more »

Because of the excellent job of the Java development team at Sun (now Oracle), Java developers are probably more familiar with the Iterator design pattern than developers in other languages. So much so that we seldom refer to traversing over a collection, but instead use the vernacular of “iterating over” a collection. While you may have used iterators built into the Java programming language, this article shows you the rational behind iterators and describes how to build an iterator of your own.... more »

It's been a busy year for MySQL. Perhaps you've heard. Here are some recent improvements to the speed, scalability, and user-friendliness of the MySQL database and the InnoDB storage engine that we think deserve their own headlines. Now is a great time to beta test the 5.5 release and give feedback to the MySQL engineering team.... more »

MySQL Cluster Carrier Grade Edition is a clustered real-time database that is deployed in some of the most demanding subscriber database systems found in the telecommunications industry. In this paper we describe how MySQL Cluster Carrier Grade Edition can be used to build a scalable, highly available, geographically replicated Subscriber Database. We show how user-defined partitioning and distribution keys help a subscriber database to scale its performance linearly with cluster size, while maintaining the benefits of a relational database, accessed via an SQL API.... more »