The anniversary of the announcement that Spring 2.5 was available is just around the corner. There are many reasons to upgrade the SpringFramework from 2.0 to 2.5. Spring 2.5 is designed as a drop-in replacement for 2.0 so there are no valid technical arguments for not upgrading. Here are my top 5 favorite features.
Jonas Partner has just announced that Spring Integration in Action is now available via the Manning early access program on his blog
SpringSource has recently released a self-service tool that allow developers to deploy their feature rich Java apps to Amazon’s EC2. It’s an apache webapp that allow you to “build, deploy, and manage” your Java applications with ease.
You simply upload your war files, sql scripts and enter your database specs. Cloud Foundry will take it from there by launching an EC2 instance, configure Apache, TCServer, and MySQL. Your app should be deployed within minutes under the context root you specified.
Currently under Beta, Cloud Foundry is planning to allow you to choose your own on/off premise cloud computing infrastructure.
