Last updated on November 5th, 2012 (Spring MVC 3.2 RC1) In my last post I introduced the new Servlet 3 based, async support in Spring MVC 3.2 and talked about long-running requests. A second very important motivation for async processing is the need for browsers to receive real-time updates. Examples include chatting in a browser, stock quotes, status updates, live sports results, and others. To be sure not all examples are equally delay-sensitive but all of them share a similar need. Traditional Polling Long Polling HTTP Streaming WebSocket Protocol

Last updated on November 5th, 2012 (Spring MVC 3.2 RC1) Overview At a Glance Motivation for Asynchronicity In Web Applications

Spring Web Flow 2.3.1 is now available for download. This maintenance release includes an upgrade to Spring 3.1.1, JavaServer Faces 2.1.7 along with a number of bug fixes. For those tracking the project it is now hosted on Github including a separate issue repository to help reproduce issues based on one of several project templates.

Spring Web Flow 2.3 is now available for download. You can review what's new in the reference documentation, see the complete changelog, or download the release. A few of the highlights include:

In this 5th post of the series describing Spring 3.1 M1 features, I will focus on web applications. In the first half I'll discuss enhancements to the MVC XML namespace. Then I'll show how to create the equivalent of the MVC namespace with all Java configuration. At the end I mention some of the Servlet 3.0 related configuration changes you can expect in 3.1 M2. Spring MVC 3.0 provided a custom MVC namespace. The centerpiece of the namespace -- the element, configured everything required to process requests with annotated controller methods. More importantly though it…

I'm pleased to announce the availability of Spring Web Flow 2.2: Please check out the updated documentation and samples for details. Download | What's New | Changelog

Building on the JSF 2 support in M1 this release features: Full Changelog | Download Note that documentation is not yet updated. Please use the sample code provided with the distribution and the comments in the appropriate JIRA tickets.

I'm pleased to announce the first milestone of Spring Web Flow 2.2 is now available for download. The release is also available through the Maven milestone repository at http://maven.springframework.org/milestone. As with Spring Web Flow 2.1, this release requires JDK 1.5, Spring 3 and Spring Security 3. The main focus of the release is to address the needs of JSF users by extending the list of supported JSF 2 features. Not long ago Web Flow 2.1 made it possible to use JSF 2 dependencies without the need for the separate Sun Facelets jar that is commonly used with JSF 1.2 today. In Spring Web…

The first maintenance release in the 2.1 branch of Spring Web Flow is now available for download.