Spring Releases
May 20th, 2008 — Interviews, Java, Releases, Spring
The Spring community has been busy over the last month coming out with a slew of new releases. Spring Web Flow 2 has been released with better support for JavaServer Faces and JavaScript. For those of you whom haven’t heard of Web Flow, it is a continuations framework that allows you to write flows for your web application. For example, think of the page flow of a user performing a search on your site and then interacting with the results. After running the search, the user may follow a result link or they may click the back button on their browser to refine their search. Web Flow helps you define the valid paths a user can take through the pages and helps manage state between these pages. Ajaxian has a writeup on the new JavaScript support and InfoQ has an interview with Keith Donald and Jeremy Grelle regarding the release.
In other Spring related news, the SpringSource Application Platform has been released. This is an OSGi-based application server that promises to allow you to update your application in real-time on the server. For more information on this, check out the discussion on TheServerSide.com as well as this interview with Spring creator Rod Johnson on dZone.
