Spring 1.2.3 has just been released. This is a bugfix and minor enhancement release, fixing a number of issues related to the application context startup sequence and introducing various minor new features.

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If you are going to OSCON 2005 in the beginning of August, be sure to attend the JDBC and Web Development with the Spring Framework tutorial on Monday morning. Rob and I have been preparing what should be a very hands on tutorial session on how to get started using Spring in your web applications.

The book “Professional Java Development with the Spring Framework” by Rod Johnson, Juergen Hoeller, Alef Arendsen, Thomas Risberg and Colin Sampaleanu is now published.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments.
Introduction.
Chapter 1. Introducing the Spring Framework.
Chapter 2. The Bean Factory and Application Context.
Chapter 3. Advanced Container Concepts.
Chapter 4. Spring and AOP.
Chapter 5. DAO Support and JDBC Framework.
Chapter 6. Transaction and Resource Management.
Chapter 7. Object/Relational Mapping.
Chapter 8. Lightweight Remoting.
Chapter 9. Supporting Services.
Chapter 10. Acegi Security System for Spring.
Chapter 11. Spring and EJB.
Chapter 12. Web MVC Framework.
Chapter 13. Web View Technologies.
Chapter 14. Integrating with Other Web Frameworks.
Chapter 15. The Sample Application.
Chapter 16. Conclusion.
Appendix A: Requirements for the Sample Application.
Index

You can buy it from Amazon or Bookpool.

Spring 1.2.2 has just been released. This is a bugfix and minor enhancement release. It also provides a unified basis for the upcoming Spring WebFlow release candidate.

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There has been some news surrounding Spring at JavaOne. The most important one must be the announcement by BEA that they will now support Spring. Read the BEA announcement here or watch the BEA General Session: “Enterprise Java: Much More than J2EE on the Way” from the JavaOne presentations page

Spring 1.2.1 has just been released. This is a bugfix and refinement release, addressing a number of issues found in 1.2 final.

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Spring Modules 0.2 Released.
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Spring 1.2 final has been released.

The major new features since 1.2 RC2 are:

* TopLink support (for both TopLink 9.0.4 and 10.1.3)
* JDO 2.0 support (tested against JPOX 1.1 beta 3)
* Hibernate 3.0.3 support (aggressive release of Connections)

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Presentation slides from the “JDBC Development with the Spring Framework” presentation at No Fluff Just Stuff in Philadelphia in March of 2005.
JDBC Development with Spring Framework Presentation

Learn to develop a Spring web application in the Spring MVC step-by-step tutorial