• North America
• Core Spring: August 21st - 24th, Chicago, IL
• Core Spring: August 27th - 30th, San Francisco, CA
• Core Spring: September 11th - 14th, Washington, DC (Dulles)
  
• Core Spring: September 18th - 21st, New York, NY
• Core Spring: September 25th - 28th, Seattle, WA
  
• Core Spring: October 2nd - 5th, Philadelphia, PA
  
• Core Spring: October 9th - 12th, Minneapolis, MN
  
• Core Spring: October 23rd - 26th, Los Angeles, CA
  

• Europe
• Core Spring: August 14th - 17th, London, UK
• Core Spring: September 11th - 14th, Paris, France
  
• Core Spring: September 18th - 21st, London, UK
  
• Core Spring: September 25th - 28th, Munich, Germany
• Core Spring: October 2nd - 5th, Antwerp, Belgium
  
• Core Spring: October 9th - 12th, London, UK
• Core Spring: October 16th - 19th, Stockholm, Sweden
• Core Spring: October 23rd - 26th, Helsinki, Finland
• Core Spring: October 23rd - 26th, Hamburg, Germany

• Australia/Asia/Other
  
• Core Spring: August 20th - 23rd, Sydney, Australia
• Core Spring: August 21st - 24th, Hong Kong, China
• Core Spring: September 18th - 21st, Beijing, China
• Core Spring: October 15th - 18th, Sydney, Australia
• Core Spring: October 22nd - 25th, Melbourne, Australia
• Core Spring: October 23rd - 26th, Shanghai, China
  
• Core Spring: Oct 29th - Nov 1st, Wellington, New Zealand
  
• Core Spring: November 5th - 8th, New Delhi, India
  
• Core Spring: November 19th - 22nd, Bangalore, India

... plus others

From the publisher:

"Spring is a fresh breeze blowing over the Java landscape. Based on the principles of dependency injection, interface-oriented design, and aspect-oriented programming, Spring combines enterprise application power with the simplicity of plain-old Java objects (POJOs).

In this second edition, Spring in Action has been completely updated to cover the exciting new features of Spring 2.0. The book begins by introducing you to the core concepts of Spring and then quickly launches into a hands-on exploration of the framework. Combining short code snippets and an ongoing example developed throughout the book, it shows you how to build simple and efficient J2EE applications. You will see how to solve persistence problems, handle asynchronous messaging, create and consume remote services, build web applications, and integrate with most popular web frameworks. You will learn how to use Spring to write simpler, easier to maintain code so that you can focus on what really matters--your critical business needs."

Enjoy using Spring in your job? Imagine if Spring was your job. Interface21, the company behind the open source Spring portfolio, has a number of positions open worldwide. Please see the Interface21 careers page for more information

Dear Spring Community,

I'm pleased to announce that Spring 2.1 M3 has been released!

This is the third milestone release in the Spring 2.1 series, introducing autowiring for collections, the "bean(name)" pointcut element, various JDBC enhancements, JRuby 1.0 support and many refinements all over the framework.

Please see the changelog and JIRA roadmap for more details on the new features introduced in this release.

FYI, we have also released 2.0.7 snapshots, containing backported fixes from 2.1 M3. Please give a recent snapshot a try as a drop-in replacement for 2.0.5/2.0.6! The official 2.0.7 release is scheduled for August 15th. 

Enjoy, 

Juergen Hoeller
Lead, Spring Framework Development
Interface21 - https://www.interface21.com

Capgemini's Java community and its partners IBM, Oracle, BEA Systems, Interface21, JBoss and Sun Microsystems are organising an exciting evening on the 18th of September with several BOF sessions that will inform you on the latest Java technology developments. These sessions are given by the top Java professionals and some JavaOne speakers from Capgemini and its partners.

During the evening you will find Spring-related sessions by Arjen Poutsma and Alef Arendsen of Interface21 (on Spring & OSGi) and Patrick Linskey of BEA (on Using Spring 2, JPA and Kodo JDO in WebLogic Server).

Register quickly (www.javanight.nl) for this FREE event because seating is limited!

Dear Spring Community,

We are pleased to announce that the agenda for The Spring Experience 2007 has been posted and that conference registration is now open.  We look forward to seeing you in Florida this December for our biggest and most exciting show yet.

The Spring Experience is the conference for the global Spring community.  This one-of-a-kind event is for application developers, solution architects, and project managers who develop business applications with Spring and the technologies Spring integrates with.

2007 will be our third year, and our biggest show yet.  This year's agenda features five concurrent tracks and over 60 technical sessions delivering new and exclusive Spring content.  The five tracks are:

1. Essential Spring
   Covers the latest version of the Spring Framework, its central concepts, and the unique Spring application development approach and toolset


2. Enterprise Integration
   Presents solutions to integration challenges facing teams developing large enterprise applications


3. Rich Web
   Focuses on web application development patterns and best practices, with a practical focus on developing beautiful user interfaces 
   


4. Application Architecture and Design
   Presents design approaches and architectural guidance for solving common problems faced when developing business applications on the Spring stack 
   


5. Emerging Tech
   Showcases bold, cutting-edge topics that offer a new perspective

Spring's ecosystem and community has grown significantly over the last year and continues to grow rapidly.  We are proud to have this year's Spring Experience showcasing that growth, featuring such new and exciting content as:

• A two-part workshop on applying Enterprise Integration Patterns to build event-driven architectures with Spring, lead by Mark Fisher.

• Holistic coverage for developers of batch processing applications, including the first ever series offered on Spring Batch, Spring's new batch processing framework.

• Sessions on high-availability architectures by Billy Newport, Distinguished Engineer at IBM.

• A view inside Oracle showing how the company is building out its next generation Application Server product on Spring and OSGi, by Hal Hildebrand.

• Comprehensive coverage for developers building web applications with Spring, from techniques to simplify CRUD action development, to Ajax integration guidelines, to best practices for conversational data access and UI component design.

• How Spring application developers can take advantage of Groovy and Grails, with Graeme Rocher, lead of the Grails project.

• The latest and greatest on Spring Portfolio products Spring Security, Spring Web Services, Spring Web Flow, Spring OSGi, Spring LDAP, and Spring.NET from the developers who created and sustain those products.

• A mini Portal Development workshop, by John Lewis, creator of Spring Portlet MVC.

• A must-see tour through the state-of-the-art in Spring application development tools, with Mik Kersten, of Eclipse, and Christian Dupuis, of Spring IDE.
  

Building on the success of our previous years, this year's show will take us back to the Westin Diplomat Resort & Spa, a five-star beach resort located in the greater Miami Beach area.  We are also pleased to be working with Jay Zimmerman, Director of NoFluffJustStuff Software Symposiums, for our third consecutive year.

We look forward to seeing you and your team at The Spring Experience 2007!

Interface21 is pleased to bring its Core Spring training into China beginning this August. The first series for 2007 has been scheduled for major cities of China including Hong Kong, Beijing, Shanghai, ChengDu, and Dalian.  Alef Arendsen, a Principal Consultant of Interface21 is working with Chris Yeung of XML Asia, a Hong-Kong based company, to deliver the training primarily in Chinese.  Please refer to www.interface21.com/training for details.

Vote for the SpringFramework in the Best Technical Design category at the SourceForge.net Community Choice Awards.  Voting closes July 26th.