A Space to Think...

At the latest Spring User Group in London, attendees got to see Sam Brannen, a member of the dm Server team in SpringSource, and Jan Machacek talk about web applications in OSGi and the new Spring Workflow Spring Extension.

As sponsor for the workflow extension I'll be writing up some samples here in the next few days so watch this space. In the meantime, if you can't wait then there's always the video of the user group to whet your appetite.

Just a quick post to say that Spring for .NET 1.2.0 is now official out of the bag and available for download.

The team and community have worked incredibly hard to get things ready for GA and we're all really pleased that we now have a fresh set of features for you to use in your own .NET development.

Highlights of 1.2.0 (from the official release announcement) include:

• WCF Integration - Configure WCF services using dependency injection.Apply AOP advice to WCF services.
• MSMQ integration - MSMQ helper classes to increase your productivity developing messaging applications. Provides integration with Spring's transaction management features.
• Apache ActiveMQ integration - Helper classes to increase your productivity developing messaging applications with ActiveMQ/NMS
• Quartz integration -Configure Quartz jobs, schedulers, triggers using dependency injection. Convenience classes for implementing Quartz Jobs.
• AOP -  New inheritance based AOP proxy generation
• NHibernate 2.0.1 support.

If you'd like to see some of these features in action, and are in London next week, then sign up for my "In the brain..." talk at Skills Matter where I'll be demonstrating these and more.

Fantastic work guys! Onwards and upwards towards 2.0.

After a huge amount of work, the Spring Integration Release Candidate 1.0 is on the shelves.

I've been working with Spring Integration for a while now, through its various releases, with a number of clients and it's great to see the move towards a GA release.

To accompany the release, Iwein Fuld (a colleague of mine in the consultancy and services division of SpringSource) has been interviewed by InfoQ to highlight some of the challenges and choices that needed to be made to bring Spring Integration confidently to the masses. Iwein is a core committer on Spring Integration and has started to pull together a collection of blogs introducing how to start to use it on the SpringSource team blog.

If that whets your appetite then head here to get hold of the RC1 download.

In addition, the first extension related to Spring Integration has also been launched. Spring Integration Adapters within Spring Extensions is a project that will provide common and reusable adapters that you can pick and choose to add to your SI-based applications.

All of the talks from the Spring in Finance day in London are now available as podcasts.

 

My own foray into public speaking that day, giving a talk with the title "Introducing Spring for .NET and Spring Extensions", has also been recorded and it is actually quite different from the talk I gave at the Spring User Group of the same name. That talk and accompanying slides can be found here also.

I've recently had the honour of becoming project lead of Spring Extensions. That on its own might be worth a post, but the real fun for me is becoming the SpringSource sponsor for Spring Python.

From Greg Turnquist's (Spring Python project lead) description:

Spring Python is an offshoot of the Java-based Spring framework and Acegi Security framework, targeted for Python. Spring provides many useful features, and I wanted those same features available when working with Python.

This is the Spring programming model and approach being actively brought to the Python environment and I for one am extremely excited to be part of that.

We're doing the final rounds on the final content for the Spring Extensions public face as I write this, but in the meantime I wanted to provide some useful links to the services that have been put in place for Spring Python:

• SVN: https://src.springframework.org/svn/se-springpython-py/
• Forums: http://forum.springframework.org/forumdisplay.php?f=45
• Issue Tracker: http://jira.springframework.org/browse/SESPRINGPYTHONPY
  
• FishEye: https://fisheye.springframework.org/browse/se-springpython-py
  
• Mailing List: http://lists.springsource.com/listmanager/listinfo/springpython-users
  
• Continuous Integration: http://build.springframework.org/browse/EXT-PYSNAPSHOT

Look for more on Spring Python right here on this blog as I begin to pull together a simple tutorial for getting the most from the framework.