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URL: Interface21 becomes SpringSource
At 2:49 PM on Nov 19, 2007, Geertjan wrote:
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In his blog, yesterday, Interface21 founder Rod Johnson announces the company's new name: SpringSource. "We’ve evolved naturally to SpringSource. We are not making a fuss about it. It just makes so much sense for us to use the name that’s so close to what people naturally (and almost accidentally) use," he writes. "It's simply confusing to have a name that's unnaturally distanced from the product we created and drive. Our tagline has always been 'Spring from the Source,' making it easy to see what the new name should be. I've always loved the way the water associations from 'Spring' made 'Spring from the Source' so natural."
In tandem with this development, Spring 2.5 is being released. Despite the dot release, this is a major milestone in terms of enhancements. As with the upcoming Groovy 1.1 release, Spring 2.5 is focused on aligning itself with JDK 5 language features. However, in addition, it also integrates with JDK 6, partly in the form of enhanced JDBC support. The enhancements in the 2.5 release are many, specifically focusing on a set of pumped up annotation options, but also providing improved testing options, messaging support, annotated web controllers, AspectJ integration, WebSphere integration, and component autodetection.
On a sidenote, InfoWorld quotes our own Rick Ross as not having a problem with Spring's decision to drop support for Java SE 1.3 and, in the future, 1.4: "Rod Johnson knows who his users are and I know he wouldn't leave them up a creek without a paddle."
With all these improvements... why isn't this Spring 3, one wonders? At this point, Spring has been around for more than 5 years and is making serious headway in the Enterprise Java community. Its flexibility and ease of use have seen it going head to head with EJB-oriented solutions in the Java EE space. Here on InfoQ a series on the Spring 2.5 improvements has started, today, so check it out, especially for the annotation enhancements in Spring 2.5. Download Spring here. At the time of writing, 2.5 RC 2 was available, though this should be incremented to the final release soon.
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Re: Interface21 Refactored to SpringSource
Spring is not dropping Java EE 1.3 support, only Java SE 1.3 support.Regards,
Colin
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Colin Sampaleanu
http://www.springsource.com
Re: Interface21 Refactored to SpringSource
Thank you to Mr.Rod Johnson for give us a wonderful software framework. I think the Spring Framework has been the best thing that ever happened to IT in a long time.Spring Source and Spring Framework Rocks!!
Best Wishes.
Re: Interface21 Refactored to SpringSource
Thanks for the clarification, Colin! I have changed the text accordingly.Re: Interface21 Refactored to SpringSource
Wow, I talked for some time with one of the guys at the Interface21 stand at JavaOne about how much better it would be to use the Spring brand in the company name......Now all they need to do is stop spreading their team too thin on too many products and concentate on making Spring the best Java persistence framework (they are so close already ....)
Re: Interface21 Refactored to SpringSource
I haven't seen a release of the Spring Rich Client Platform (RCP) on SourceForge since the 0.2.1 release on 9/21/2006. Is SpringSource still commiting development resources to this project?