Spring MVC, a part of the core Spring Framework, is a mature and capable action-response style web framework, with a wide range of capabilities and options aimed at handling a variety of UI-focused and non-UI-focused web tier use cases. All this can potentially be overwhelming to the Spring MVC neophyte. I think it's useful for this audience to show just how little work there is to get a bare Spring MVC application up and running (i.e. consider my example something akin to the world's simplest Spring MVC application), and that's what I'll spend the rest of this article demonstrating. I'm…

Spring Framework 2.0 RC4 has been released. This is the last release candidate before Spring 2.0 final, and you may find out more about it from the release announcement itself as well as the JIRA issue list for a complete list of changes in this release. Possibly the most important thing to watch out for is that this release introduces versioned file/location names for the 2.0 DTD and Schemas (XSDs). This was necessary since the XML bean definition format was significantly enahnced for 2.0, but 1.2.x users still need to be able to refer to the 1.2.8 DTD. Here is an example of using the 2.…

We're pleased to announce that 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. Besides refinements in the JTA transaction synchronization and SQLException translation, this release introduces a variety of internal refactorings and new helper classes. Furthermore, support for JDK 1.5's XML-based properties format has been added to all relevant Spring classes. We have also extended our reference documentation in various areas. Most importantly, it covers JDO, TopLink, OJB…