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5 reasons to upgrade Spring from 2.0 to 2.5

November 2nd, 2009 / Transient Technology

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.

Spring Integration in Action available now

October 25th, 2009 / Transient Technology

Jonas Partner has just announced that Spring Integration in Action is now available via the Manning early access program on his blog

CloudFoundry – Quick Cloud Deployment of your Java Apps

August 23rd, 2009 / Gotham Canuk

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.