On Thursday October 16th, join Colin Sampaleanu, SpringSource co-founder and original Spring contributor, in this webinar to get a hands-on overview of SpringSource Enterprise, which includes certified, tested and indemnified Spring software coupled with advanced production and development capabilities and support. In this webinar, you will learn about:

This webinar is offered at two different times: 3pm CEST for developers in Europe and 1pm EDT for developers in North America.

Dear Spring community,
I'm pleased to announce that Spring Dynamic Modules for OSGi(tm) Service Platforms (formerly known as Spring OSGi) 1.1.2 has been released.

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We're pleased to an announce the release of Spring Security 2.0.4.

This release contains minor bugfixes and improvements. There are also some changes to the security namespace so you should update to the new 2.0.4 schema file if necessary. There are also some documentation updates, including two new reference appendices in the manual - one describing the database schema used within Spring Security and one describing the elements and attributes in the namespace and how they map to underlying implementation classes.

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All courses are delivered by the people who build and sustain the Spring Framework. For full details, please visit the main training information page. Here is a summary of some of the upcoming courses and venues:
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SpringSource announced today that the SpringSource dm Server 1.0.0 is now generally available. The dm Server is a completely modular, OSGi-based Java server to run enterprise Java applications and Spring-powered applications with a new degree of flexibility and reliability.

Check out the User Guide and the Programming Guide on how to get started and be sure to download it now.

Spring in Finance is a free, 1 day event, full of sessions and discussions on the Spring Framework, exclusively aimed at Developers and Architects that work in Financial Services. The programme for this day:

The event will be held at the Crypt in London on the 10th of October. Attendance is free for registered participants. Register now!

The recent announcement about the SpringSource Enterprise Maintenance Policy, effective September 2008, has caused some vigorous discussion in the community.

Some comments and blogs show an understanding of the new policy but there has also been a lot of misinformation and exaggeration by some others. We have created a Frequently Asked Questions document to help the Spring community and SpringSource customers to understand exactly what this means for them.

Mark Brewer

For Spring developers in German speaking countries we have a new three part webinar series "auf Deutsch".

Be sure to check out the sessions and register for these valuable learning opportunities.

All courses are delivered by the people who build and sustain the Spring Framework. For full details, please visit the main training information page. Here is a summary of some of the upcoming courses and venues:
... plus others

Jeremy Grelle, SpringSource senior software engineer and lead of the Spring Faces and Spring JavaScript projects, has written an excellent article about Spring Faces which has been published on JSF Central. Spring Faces provides first class integration between JavaServer Faces and Spring and enhances the experience of developing and running JSF applications. Jeremy's article gives an overview of Spring Faces, provides a sample application and describes how Spring Faces, together with Spring Web Flow, addresses many of the common pain points developers face when working with JSF.

Be sure to check to read Part One of the article.