InformationWorld >_ Spring to get upgraded with REST
Due in late summer, next version will also feature unification in programming model between Spring Web Flow and Spring MVC
By Paul Krill
The popular Spring Framework for Java development will be fitted with REST (Representational State Transfer) capabilities in an upgrade planned for later this year, the founder of the framework, Rod Johnson, said Thursday at TheServerSide Java Symposium in Las Vegas.
Also, Johnson predicted a changing middleware scene, with a decline in Java application servers. He also touted capabilities in the current release of Spring, Version 2.5, pertaining to capabilities such as annotations.
The planned 3.0 version of Spring, anticipated this August or September, “will have significant enhancements with respect to Web technologies,” Johnson said. Current and previous versions of the open source framework have been downloaded about 5 million times.March 27, 2008
“We’re really seeing extensive interest and growth in REST, and it will have comprehensive support for RESTful Web services,” said Johnson, who is CEO of SpringSource, a consulting firm that provides services to Spring users. (more…)
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