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Too busy coding to update the blog so here’s some news: Spring Framework 2.5 Released!

A much welcome new version with some great new additions from the Spring Team. I’m excited to try out the new testing framework and annotation based configuration!

There’s a great article over at the server side about Spring as the new Java EE.

I favored Spring and Hibernate over the more widely sanctioned Struts and EJB combo a long time ago. It’s always nice to see I’m not the only one embracing change and the article covers nicely similar transitions in the Java conference space.

Despite course titles like: Embracing the Standard: Migrating a Spring/Hibernate Application to Java Platform, Enterprise Edition (Java EE) 5, there was a lot of Spring sessions at Java One this year. Appropriate timing by The Server Side and a good read.

I love the Spring Framework. It’s pretty much changed my enterprise Java development. I’ve also ditched Struts for Spring MVC to keep my technology stack simple.

A new project calls for Ajax enabled pages so I’ve been researching AJAX integration with Spring MVC.

Here are some references as a starting point:

• Mangeability’s Open Source AJAX Frameworks with Server-Side Java Support
• Ajax Pattern’s Java Ajax Frameworks

These articles both point to promising choices for a pre-existing framework:

• Spring Modules XT Framework
  
• Ajax and the Spring Framework with TIBCO General Interface
• DWR and Spring

Honerable mention (but probably not headed in this direction):

• Google Web Toolkit (GWT). Pretty cool, but overkill for this project
• Also Using the GWTSpringController and GWTHandler
• OpenLaszlo. Also interesting, also overkill

I’ll post my final pick and why when finished.