Spring 2.5 released

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It’s finally there, and with quite a handful of impressive new features, too. I especially like the new configuration options and the way you can actually do something vaguely similar to rapid prototyping even in the Java Enterprise world now. In my humble opinion, annotation-based controllers go a long way towards establishing Spring MVC as a viable web framework alternative. Being a huge fan of Stripes’ “configuration-less” approach, I see some convergence here.

I also appreciate the efford that has gone into obtaining WebSphere certification for Spring 2.5, as lack of server vendor support can - at least with the clients I usually work for - still be an exclusion criterion.

So, to put it in a nutshell: Congratulations on this release to everybody at SpringSource and thanks for the awesome job you’re doing there.

Nov

12

Things Spring can’t help with…

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As you will most probably have noticed, I haven’t written all that much recently - nothing at all, actually. This is mainly due to the fact that I have been exceptionally busy with things entirely out of Spring’s scope (yes, they exist). Please give a warm welcome to my son, Leo Wloka, who has been born on the 21st of October. As you can imagine, he and his mom will keep me rather busy for a while.

Nevertheless, I will, as I play around with the recent Spring 2.5 Release Candidate, blog about all noteworthy experiences. In the meantime, my german readers might enjoy reading the Spring Praxishandbuch, which I had the pleasure of writing the JMS chapter for.