While SQL executed through JDBC may solve all of your database needs for a client application, as your application becomes more robust you may find yourself in need of a more advanced architecture. In this article I review two of the most popular frameworks for building enterprise applications in the context of building a client application: Hibernate and Spring.... more »

Dear Spring Community, We are pleased to announce that the first milestone release of the Spring Android project is now available! Spring Android supports usage of the Spring Framework in a Android environment. The defining feature of the 1.0.0.M1 release is RestTemplate support that provides a robust REST client to use in native Android applications. To get you started, Keith has posted a Spring into Mobile Application Development blog, which provides insight into the project. This milestone is the first in an exciting road ahead. If you're building native Android applications that communicate with Spring web apps, we invite you to join us in the development of the Spring Android project! ... more »

The primary goal of the Spring Data project is to make it easier to build Spring-powered applications that use new data access technologies such as non-relational databases, map-reduce frameworks, and cloud based data services. A secondary goal is to provide additional support for relational database technologies such as Oracle RAC and convenience classes for Java generic based DAO classes. Spring Data is an umbrella open source project which contains many subprojects that are specific to a given datastore. The projects are developed by working together with many of the companies and developers that are behind these exciting technologies. ... more »

Screencast: Using Spring Insight wit... * Get Started o Installation o Quick Start o IDE Setup o Tutorials o Screencasts * Reference o Documentation o FAQs o Roadmap * Community o Testimonials o Issue Tracker o Source code o Plugins o Mailing Lists o Nabble Forums ... more »

Apache Maven is a popular open source tool that offers a convention-over-configuration approach to project build management. Indeed the Eclipse Community Surveys show Maven increased its adoption from 8% in 2009 to 28% in 2010, underscoring its usefulness in a wide range of project settings. Even though you can use Spring without using Maven, there are many reasons to recommend its use to Spring developers. In this post I'll show you how to get started using Maven, and how to use it successfully with Spring libraries, repositories and tooling like SpringSource Tool Suite and Spring Roo. Maven handles project builds. Maven can provide a lot of power and sophistication with relative ease if your project follows Maven's conventions. It is declarative; you describe what you want done, not how you want it done. This approach will seem different if you've come from venerable build tools like Make, or Ant.... more »

Since the big Spring 3 release last year, I've been working on a number of application development projects and extracting "showcases" of various framework features. These "showcases" are not reference applications or tutorials, they're more like acceptance tests for specific framework capabilities. After seeing a showcase, you should have a good idea of what the technology can do. The first showcase I've put together is for Spring MVC 3, our web framework. It includes a sample project, along with a supporting slide presentation and screencast. After digging in, you should have a good understanding of what Spring MVC can do and get a feel for how easy it is to use.... more »

In this post, we will introduce the core concepts of messaging, as well as the rich support for various types of messaging that the Spring framework and its sister projects provide. What is Messaging? To best explain this, I'll paraphrase the example offered by the groundbreaking Enterprise Integration Patterns book by Gregor Hohpe and Bobby [...]... more »

Dear Spring community, We are pleased to announce that Spring Web Services 2.0 Release Candidate 2 has been released! This is the second release candidate in the 2.0 release cycle. The most important new feature in this release is the update of the Spring-WS XML namespace, which now contains and elements (similar to the Spring-MVC namespace), and and for exporting your WSDLs. All of these features are described in the updated reference documentation. We consider this release (RC2) complete. If no major new issues are found, we will release 2.0.0-RELEASE in the first half of January 2011. While we did make some changes, Spring-WS 2.0 should be a drop-in replacement for 1.5 with just one exception. Please read the forum post for the details. ... more »

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 »