Spring.Net - java/j2ee Application Framework

PRESENTATION: Oliver Paulus provides an overview of Spring and Spring.NET in this presentation made to his development team. In German.

[2006-3-9]

ANNOUNCEMENT: Daily builds using the latest snapshot from CVS are now available. See the Downloads page for more information.

[2005-12-1]

EVENT: The The Spring Experience is is the first conference devoted exclusively to the Spring Framework.

While most of the talks will be Java focused, Rob Harrop and Aleksander Seovic will be presenting Introducing Spring.NET.

Conference dates are Dec 7-10 in Florida. Once again sorry for the last minute posting.

[2005-11-30]

ANNOUNCEMENT: The Spring.NET team is pleased to announce the 1.0.1 and 1.1 Preview 2 releases of Spring.NET

The 1.1 Preview 2 release fixes some bugs in Spring.Web and adds new features. It includes all changes made in the 1.0.1 release. Highlights include:

• .NET Remoting helper classes and example application.
• Fix Request Scope on object defintions

The 1.0.1 release contains bug fixes, enhancements, and new features. Highlights include:

• Support type aliasing for more concise configuration
• Allow registration of user defined IResource implementations and XML parsers to create object definitions.
• Add support for object alias naming.
• Add convenience class for defining attribute matching aspects, AttributeMatchMethodPointcutAdvisor.
• Fix setting of transparent proxy as a property.
• Fix exception thrown from AOP proxies to be that of the target class.

See the changelog and documentation for details.

Downloads are available through the SourceForge project page

Thanks once again for your help and support.

[2005-11-16]

CANCELLED EVENT: Unfortunately the No Fluff Just Stuff .NET Conference on December 2-4th in Denver has been cancelled.

[2005-11-16]

ANNOUNCEMENT: Spring.NET is now being "continuously integrated" using CruiseControl.NET. Clover code coverage reports are also generated. Check out the CruiseControl Web Application for more information.

[2005-11-10]

ANNOUNCEMENT: A preview of the Spring.Web functionality is now available for easy download as a Spring 1.1 Preview Release.

This release contains the following Spring.Web functionality

• Dependency Injection for ASP.NET web pages and controls
• Bi-directional data binding between web controls and the data model
• Advanced localization support
• Externalized page flow based on Result Mapping
• Master Page support for ASP.NET 1.1 applications
• Method return value caching aspect using ASP.NET Cache object as cache item store.
• SpringAir example application showcasing above features

Downloads are available through the SourceForge project page

[2005-10-11]

EVENT: Aleksander Seovic will be presenting "Building ASP.NET applications with Spring.NET" at VSLive! Orlando on Tuesday October 11th at 11:45 am. See the conference web site for more information. (Apologies for the last minute posting.)

[2005-10-07]

ANNOUNCEMENT: The Spring.NET team is pleased to announce the 1.0.0 release of Spring.NET

This release is primarily a bug fix and documentation enhancement release. Some minor new features were added.

Important bug fixes and new features are:

• Configuration of custom collection classes
• ContextRegistry.GetContext instantiates IApplicationContext from spring/context configuration section
• AOP proxy support for inner classes
• Added AddAdvice and RemoveAdvice methods to the IAdvised interface and removed deprecated specific Add/Remove methods for BeforeAdvice, ThrowsAdvice and Interceptor. (As per Spring.Java 1.2.4)
• Fix incorrect processing of resources as applied to child and parent contexts that would create extraneous singleton instances.

Thanks once again for your comments and suggestions. Enjoy!

See the changelog for details. Downloads are available through the SourceForge project page

[2005-09-14]