SpringSource Team Blog

Pluggable styling with SpringSource Slices

Andy Wilkinson — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 15:33:26 +0000

Since we announced SpringSource Slices, a number of users and customers have asked about using Slices to make the styling and branding of their Web sites pluggable. In this blog, I'll demonstrate how easy it is with Slices. Pluggable styling I have a standard war file, named styled.host.war, that contains a very simple index.html page: <html> <head> <title>SpringSource Slices Pluggable [...]

Using Yourkit to Find a Memory Leak

Dave Syer — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 21:09:05 +0000

I had such a great experience today with Yourkit that I thought I'd write a quick plug. It's been a couple of years since I used it in anger, and even then it was the best tool I could find, but now it really is ultra slick. I haven't done an exhaustive survey [...]

Maven PAR Plugin 1.0.0.M1

Ben Hale — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 12:00:20 +0000

Shortly after the introduction of SpringSource dm Server (Application Platform at the time), Thorsten Maus created a Maven plugin for creating PAR files. This was a great community contribution and we even used it in the Getting Started Guide for dm Server 1.0.x. As dm Server's 2.0 milestones have progressed we've been adding new functionality [...]

Installing STS into Eclipse 3.5

Christian Dupuis — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 09:28:16 +0000

Today marks a big day for Eclipse and for everybody involved with the Eclipse ecosystem: Congratulations to the Eclipse folks for releasing Eclipse 3.5 aka Galileo. You can read more about the release at http://www.eclipse.org/galileo/. I encourage everybody to download Eclipse 3.5 today and try it out. [ Editor's Note: STS 2.1.0.RC1, which includes full packaged [...]

OSGi Test Stubs 1.0.0.M1

Ben Hale — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 09:38:25 +0000

I'm pleased to announce the 1.0.0.M1 release of SpringSource's OSGi Test Stubs. These stubs offer a way to unit test complex OSGi Framework interactions without needing a full OSGi container. Package - Download Git - git://git.springsource.org/osgi-test-stubs/osgi-test-stubs.git The Problem As the dm Server team has been developing, we found that one of the biggest problem areas for testing for us [...]

Messaging meets OSGi at OSGi DevCon Europe

Iwein Fuld — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 09:10:57 +0000

Yesterday I was speaking at OSGi DevCon Europe about using Spring Integration and dm Server to tackle common problems in large applications in a pragmatic way. Before and after my session I talked to various people that liked to have a little more information about these ideas. This blog will give an overview of what [...]

Modular Web Applications with SpringSource Slices

Rob Harrop — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 15:19:22 +0000

I've talked in the past about providing support for truly modular applications, and I'm pleased to announce that you can now access the early prototype code of SpringSource Slices. Building and Installing You can access the source code from our Git repository: git clone git://git.springsource.org/slices/slices.git To build a packaged version of Slices simply run ant clean jar package [...]

dm Server Repository Content via JMX

Ben Hale — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 10:59:42 +0000

In the dm Server 2.0.0.M1 release we added support for shared repositories. As a followup to this new functionality, we've added support for browsing those repositories via JMX. Connecting to a running dm Server instance with a JMX client now shows you a Repository group. Under this group, each configured repository (with the exception [...]

Exploring Roo's Architecture

Ben Alex — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 13:29:52 +0000

Last month we discovered how easy it is to build a fully-fledged enterprise application in just a few minutes using Spring Roo - our new productivity tool for Java developers. While many Java developers have already started evaluating Roo to help save time on their projects, I've received a lot of questions from people curious [...]

Deploying WARs to the OSGi Web Container is now even easier

Andy Wilkinson — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 10:37:22 +0000

As Rob mentioned in his introduction to the OSGi Web Container, dm Server automatically imports system packages into Web bundles. This has proved very useful, especially when deploying existing WAR files into an OSGi environment. I've recently spent some time moving this functionality from dm Server's Web subsystem into the OSGi Web Container RI. This [...]