Oracle Development Kit for Spring

To help you better understand the support Oracle offers to Spring developers, everything you need to get started with Spring on Oracle Containers for Java EE is now available in the Oracle Development Kit for Spring. Whether you're new to Spring or an old hand, you're sure to benefit from the contents of the Development Kit:

• A comprehensive set of How-To examples illustrating Spring-OC4J integration
• The Oracle Developer Depot Web application, which enables you to deploy and run the How-To projects on OC4J
• A Spring extension to JDeveloper, Oracle's free Java IDE
• Supporting documentation and white papers

The Kit is available as a self-extracting ZIP archive. Note that you will need Oracle Containers for Java EE (10.1.3.2) or higher to use all of the How-To projects provided.

Spring and Oracle: I21 blog entry about Oracle contribution to Spring

Rod Johnson in the Interface21 team blog entry named "Oracle Contributing Oracle Application Server Integration Code to Spring Framework" described the contribution of Oracle to Spring framework.

This contribution allows Spring applications to leverage the OracleAS transaction manager and its features. In addition to this contribution and some previous investments of Oracle in Spring, see the Oracle and Spring page of OTN; Oracle continues to invest more and more in Spring, as contributor or as user since, as stated by Rod, Spring has an important roles in Oracle Fusion Middleware, and its upcoming Services Component Architecture offering.

SourceLabs SASH certified on Oracle Fusion Middleware

Oracle Fusion Middleware is now a certified platform for the SourceLabs "SASH" stack: Apache Struts, Apache Axis, the Spring Framework, and Hibernate. Visit this page to download free SASH software!

SASH is a distribution from SourceLabs that: 1. Reconciles library versions and dependencies across the entire stack. 2. Includes dependability fixes for the baseline open source projects 3. Is rigorously tested according to the CERT7 method. 4. Is commercially supported.

Oracle Toplink and Spring framework integration

You can now find a preview of the Oracle Toplink & framework integration. This allows you to easily use Toplink features in your Spring application. You can download it from OTN Web site.