Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring ! I've just returned from Devoxx UK and Devoxx France where I was very happy to talk to developers using Spring from all walks of industry. I also spoke at Skills Matter in London on building web applications using Spring. Thanks to Skills Matter, the London Spring User Group, and to the amazing Rob Harrop for having me, it was such a pleasure! The video from that session is available online if you're interested.
The Kamal's blog has a nice post
on how to setup a Spring MVC 3.0-based application.
NB that, with more recent releases of Spring, you don't need any XML for web.xml or the Spring application context.
We've got a lot to cover, though, so let's get to it!
The challenges inherent to building enterprise applications that meet China-scale demand are unparalleled. One exemplary Chinese organization using Spring heavily to solve very unique challenges is the Alibaba group. Alibaba is itself an online auction site, like eBay in the west. The Alibaba group in turn owns a few other online service companies, like Alipay (a secure transaction processor, like PayPal in the west), TaoBao (a comparison shopping engine, like Shopzilla in the west), and TMall (an e-tailer, exposing the catalogues of merchants, like Amazon in the west). From the InfoQ article…
The release was in the news a lot yesterday. Here's a nice post on GigaOm, another on CIO , and yet another on
CRN and another still on
Silicon Angle. Pas Apicella has written a very nice post
on using Spring and MyBatis, along with VMware SQLFire
.
There's some great video content is available online this week, so be sure to check the content out. Also, you asked and we are delivering - we now maintain an single index page for all SpringOne2GX recordings along with the link to the InfoQ page for their recordings of the event. On with the roundup!
In the meantime, as usual, we've got quite a bit of news to cover this week, including more news on the Spring 4 roadmap announcement from last week. If you want to get the absolute latest, check out the Spring 3.2 GA webinar replay on YouTube, where Spring Framework 4.0 is covered a bit toward the end. Let's get to it!
