Spring in Automn
Friday, December 5th, 2008
Last week event was the Spring Source Conference in La Défense.
It was organized by Julien Dubois (SpringSource France) and Didier Girard (Sfeir).
It answered some of my questions as:
- Why Spring Source bought support for Apache?
- Did they really change their release policy?!
- What’s next? Roadmap etc…
One main concept explained by Peter Cooper ( SpringSource) was a 3 steps concept: Development, Deployment and Support.
Spring Source aims the 3 fields.
For example, a Tomcat Source Commiter from SpringSource gave a brillant demonstration of Tomcat Tunings: launch parameters depending on the server CPU, maxThread etc.
The Enterprise package is quite simple: they offer the hole services in One Package.
Some improvement i noticed in Spring3:
- Hibernate Model Validation
- REST support
- More and more Annotation facilities in configuration files and classes.
And of course the main buz: SpringSource acquires G2One (Groovy and Grails)!