[Springframework-developer] New Spring Support Forums are Live

[Colin S. <col...@ex...>]

The Spring team is pleased to announce that the new Spring support 
forums are live. The forums are available at:
     http://forum.springframework.org

The new forum infrastructure will allow support questions to be answered 
in a more efficient fashion, but with less chance of things slipping 
through the cracks. Additionally, users may easily search for existing 
answers to their questions, hopefully reducing effort for everybody.

It is expected that the use of the existing SourceForge forums and 
SourceForge 'springframework-user' mailing list will be replaced by the 
new forums, after an initial short trial period running in parallel. We 
encourage all users to direct support questions to the new forums. While 
we understand that some users do like mailing lists for support, it is 
important to realize that consolidating to the new forum infrastructure 
will reduce duplication, and save time for Spring developers, allowing 
them to work more on code and documentation. The dev list will continue 
to be used for spring development.

Note that while a default look and feel is set for new forum users, you 
may from the preferences page of the site choose another template that 
is more to your liking. 6-7 template variations have been installed.

Regards,
Colin