SpringSource Team Blog

Spring MVC 3.2 Preview: Chat Sample

Rossen Stoyanchev — Wed, 16 May 2012 23:22:55 +0000

My last blog post was based on a Spring AMQP stocks sample that involved reacting to external events. This blog post continues that theme with a chat sample where the external events are not AMQP messages but rather HTTP POST requests. Later on I'll switch to a distributed chat where the events will be Redis Read more...

Spring MVC 3.2 Preview: Adding Long Polling to an Existing Web Application

Rossen Stoyanchev — Mon, 14 May 2012 02:24:20 +0000

In my last post I discussed how to make a Spring MVC controller method asynchronous by returning a Callable which is then invoked in a separate thread by Spring MVC. But what if async processing depended on receiving an external event that will take place in a thread outside the control of the current request Read more...

Spring MVC 3.2 Preview: Making a Controller Method Asynchronous

Rossen Stoyanchev — Thu, 10 May 2012 18:16:06 +0000

In previous posts I introduced the Servlet 3, async support feature in Spring MVC 3.2 M1 and provided background on techniques for real-time updates. In today's post I'll turn to the technical details of the new Spring MVC feature and its impact on various aspects of the Spring MVC request lifecycle. To make any existing Read more...

Using Cloud Foundry Workers with Spring

Josh Long — Wed, 09 May 2012 16:33:09 +0000

You've no doubt read Jennifer Hickey's amazing blog posts introducing Cloud Foundry workers, their application in setting up Ruby Resque background jobs, and today's post introducing the Spring support. Key Takeaways for Spring Developers You need to update your version of vmc with gem update vmc. Cloud Foundry workers let you run public static void Read more...

Spring MVC 3.2 Preview: Techniques for Real-time Updates

Rossen Stoyanchev — Tue, 08 May 2012 16:36:04 +0000

In my last post I introduced the new Servlet 3, async support feature in Spring MVC 3.2 M1 in the context of 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 Read more...

Spring MVC 3.2 Preview: Introducing Servlet 3, Async Support

Rossen Stoyanchev — Mon, 07 May 2012 02:36:35 +0000

Overview Spring MVC 3.2 M1 will introduce asynchronous request processing support based on Servlet 3.0. This is the first of several blog posts covering the new feature, providing along the way sufficient background and context to understand how and why you might want to take advantage of it. A major goal of any milestone release Read more...

Create Spring Integration Projects using STS

Gunnar Hillert — Mon, 09 Apr 2012 16:46:24 +0000

Just days ago, SpringSource Tool Suite™ (STS) 2.9.1 was released. Besides many new features, it provides several features that are especially exciting for Spring Integration users. First of all, the latest STS release adds support for Spring Integration 2.1 and improves the visualization capabilities for Spring Integration flows. STS supports now all recently added Spring Read more...

Migrating to Spring 3.1 and Hibernate 4.1

Michael Isvy — Fri, 06 Apr 2012 07:59:26 +0000

As part of the Core-Spring course, we have a lab application that we use to show how to integrate Spring and JPA/Hibernate together. We have just upgraded it to Spring 3.1 / Hibernate 4.1, and thought we should share a few tips. 1) Maven Dependencies The configuration sample below is based on Maven (but you Read more...

Secure Data Binding With Grails

Jeff Brown — Wed, 28 Mar 2012 16:43:36 +0000

Introduction The Grails Framework provides a lot of tools and techniques to web application developers to simplify solving common application development challenges. Among those are a number of things which simplify the complicated and tedious problems often associated with data binding. In general, data binding is made very simple by Grails as it offers several Read more...

Early Access: SpringSource Tool Suite for Eclipse Juno (4.2)

Martin Lippert — Wed, 14 Mar 2012 11:16:01 +0000

Wanna use the SpringSource Tool Suite on the latest Eclipse Juno (4.2) milestone builds? Here you go: How to install Download and install the latest: Eclipse Juno JEE milestone build Download the bookmarks.xml and import that to your list of update sites (Preferences -> Install/Update -> Available Update Sites -> Import). Go to "Install New Software" and Read more...