[Springframework-developer] Spring Framework 1.0 final released

[Ken K. <kk...@kk...>]

It's fitting on this occasion to mention something that occurred at our 
local Madison Wisconsin Java Users Group meeting last night.

Bruce Tate (author of Bitter Java & Bitter EJB) spoke about persistence 
frameworks, specifically EJB CMP, JDO, and Hibernate, providing a look 
under the hood at the underlying strategies and a pretty fair and 
balanced comparison of the advantages and disadvantages of each. At the 
end of the talk he asked the audience if they wanted to hear his take on 
Session Beans. It was then that he started talking about Spring and 
lightweight containers and made the bold prediction that they would 
"take down the J2EE container". A skeptic might say that he was just 
trying to promote his upcoming new book, which will apparently contain a 
lot of Spring content, by saying something controversial but I think 
there's more to it than that ;).