I'm very excited to announce that Bundlor 1.0.0.RC1 is now available. There have been numerous changes to Bundlor since the M6 release including additions to detection and warning criteria as well as improvements to the ANT and Maven configurations.

This milestone marks feature-complete status for the 1.0.0 release. Baring any major issues, this candidate will be released as 1.0.0.RELEASE shortly.

Detection and Warning Criteria

Bundlor now detects Java types in the following locations:

• Java Types
• Spring Context Files
• Blueprint Service Configuration Files
• Web Application Files
• Contained JARs
• JPA Configuration Files
• Hibernate Configuration Files
• JSP Files
• Log4J Configuration Files
• Static Resources

Bundlor also scans the its generated manifest for the following issues and generates warnings based on them:

• Unlikely Import Version Ranges
• Importing of Exported Packages
• Manifest from Signed JAR
• Imports Unversioned
• Exports Unvesioned
• Missing Bundle-SymbolicName
• Missing Manifest-Version

Standardized and Simplified Configuration

One of the most glaringly bad parts of Bundlor up until the RC1 release was the inconsistency of features and configuration across the various front ends (command-line, ANT, Maven). RC1 has unfortunately had to change the configuration parameters of all of these but the end result is consistency and in many cases simplification of Bundlor's configuration.

Please see the Bundlor documentation for the configuration options for your…

Second in a series of posts on "Spring 3 Simplifications" started yesterday by Keith, I'd like to provide a very brief and hands-on introduction to Spring's new @Configuration annotation and related support.

As those that followed the Spring JavaConfig project will know, a @Configuration-annotated class serves much the same role as a Spring XML file. It provides a code-centric way of declaring Spring bean definitions using nothing more than methods and annotations. You might call it Plain Old Configuration* :) This means that for simple situations, no XML will be required!

Let's get started. To demonstrate @Configuration functionality, I've created a very simple project in the new spring-samples SVN repository. You may want to sync up and…

The Groovy development team and SpringSource are very pleased to announce the final release of Groovy 1.7, the most popular and successful dynamic language for the JVM! After two betas and two release candidates, we're are happy to deliver this new and very important milestone to our ever-growing user base.

Over the years, the Groovy project has managed to grow a community, but not only that, a very rich and active ecosystem of Groovy-related projects: the Grails web stack, the Griffon swing application framework, the Gant and Gradle build solutions, the Gaelyk lightweight toolkit for Google App Engine, the Gpars parallel system, the Spock testing frameworks and the GMock mocking library, the CodeNarc and GMetrics quality tools, and many more! With all…

As Juergen and Arjen have mentioned, Java developers everywhere have a smooth upgrade with Spring 3.0. Now that Spring 3 is out, I'd like to take you through some of the new MVC features you may not know about. I hope you find these features useful and can start putting them to work in your web applications immediately.

This is also the start of a series on "Spring 3 Simplifications", so expect more posts like these in the coming days and weeks.

Configuration Simplification

Spring 3 introduces a mvc namespace that greatly simplifies Spring MVC setup. Along with other enhancements, it has never been easier to get Spring web applications up and running. This can be illustrated by the mvc-basic…

Hot on the heels of Spring 3.0 and Spring DM 1.2.1, I'm delighted to announce that dm Server 2.0 RC1 is now available. RC1 is feature complete and, barring any major problems being found, will be the final 2.0 release early in the new year. So, please download the RC and give us your feedback: it's your last chance to shape the 2.0 release!

If you're interested in what's changed since M6, please take a look at the release notes.

Thank you for all of the feedback that we've had during the development of 2.0. Please keep it coming as we move towards the final release.

Feature overview

There's a lot of great…

To assist all developers with their upgrade to Spring 3.0 GA, SpringSource has released an update to SpringSource Tool Suite (STS), the best Eclipse-powered development environment for building Spring, Groovy and Grails powered enterprise applications. The new version (2.3.0) is now available for download and includes:

• Comprehensive updates to support all new Spring 3.0.0.RELEASE features.
• New support for Spring Integration, Spring Web Services and Spring BlazeDS/Flex namespaces.
• Updates to support the recent Spring Roo 1.0.0.RC4.
• Improved Grails tooling, including support for the latest Grails 1.2 snapshot.

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We hope you enjoy using STS and please use the community forum to give your feedback and ask questions.

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Dear Spring Community,

We are pleased to announce that Spring .NET 1.3.0 is now available.  

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This release contains the following new major features:

• Micosoft Test Framework integration - Integration test classes to support MSTest in addition to NUnit.
• TIBCO EMS integration - Helper classes to increase your productivity developing messaging based applications with TIBCO EMS.
• NVelocity integration - Helper classes to configure a NVelocity template engine in a Spring based application
• VS.NET Solution Templates - VS.NET 2008 based…

After a long ride, it is my pleasure to announce that Spring 3.0 GA (.RELEASE) is finally available (download page)! All of SpringSource is celebrating - join the party :-)

For some very recent news, Spring 3.0 GA is compatible with Java EE 6 final in terms of runtime environments now (e.g. on GlassFish v3 as released last week) and supports JPA 2.0 final already (e.g. using EclipseLink 2.0). We also support the newly introduced @ManagedBean (JSR-250 v1.1) annotation for component scanning now, which nicely complements our @Inject (JSR-330) support for annotation-driven dependency injection.

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It's here just in time for the holidays! Arjen Poutsma has just announced that Spring 3.0.0 is now final and Juergen Hoeller has blogged about the features in the release.

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Congratulations to Juergen, Arjen and all the other SpringSource engineers that worked so hard on the release. Also a huge thank you to all of the dedicated community members that have given feedback and identified issues along the way. Please keep up the good work so that we can continue to make all the Spring projects better and better.