Some slightly older Spring news

A few interesting articles about the Spring framework have caught my eye recently. What they have in common is that they’re closely connected to Spring without being directly about it.

Interface21, the company that backs the Spring framework commercially, received a $10 million investment at the end of May. The money is intended to support further development of Spring. It’s up to Interface21 how and where to spend it.

Over time, interesting subprojects such as WebFlow and Acegi Security were built on top of the original Spring framework. At first a few enthusiasts were behind these subprojects, but as their popularity grew, so did the community around them. One area that should receive funding is the further development and maintenance of these subprojects. At least that’s how Rod Johnson sees it in “Why did we raise $10m?”

At almost the same time, TheServerSide carried two announcements about products for clustering Spring applications.

• Cluster4Spring (Clustered Remoting for Spring) 0.85 released — a library that brings clustering features such as failover and load balancing to Spring’s remoting capabilities
• GigaSpaces 6 announced, allows POJOs in JavaSpaces via Spring

Add existing solutions like Open Terracotta or Tangosol Coherence, and we already have solid clustering support for applications built on Spring.