The next book in our Spring series has just published, Beginning Spring 2 by Dave Minter. Click here for An Introduction to Spring, an excerpt from this new book.

SpringFramework.org has announced the availability of Release Candidate 1 of the new Spring Framework 2.5.

If you’re ready to dig into it, then check out the official Spring 2.5 RC1 Reference documentation, which is like a book in terms of quality and substance.

As many Java developers consider Java EE 5, Spring or other enterprise Java alternatives, there are many in their institutional structure that still use J2EE 1.4. For those that are, Apress is here to help…

Here is a sample chapter book excerpt on a gentle introduction to the Spring Framework, as available in the newly published Building Spring 2 Enterprise Applications by i21 (founders/makers of Spring) as well as Bram Smeets and Seth Ladd.

Java EE 6 approved with reservations.

The Spring Framework 2.x is quickly becoming the de-facto open source enterprise meta-framework for J2EE/Java EE and other enterprise developers. If you’re new to Spring or looking for any documentation on Spring 2…

You might be asking why java.apress.com is posting an excerpt (and soon other content) on Ruby on Rails. Well, the answer is because…

LinuxPlanet: Sun Microsystems has partnered with Canonical to release a complete Java stack for Ubuntu users. The stack is made up of Sun software…

The 2007 TheServerSide Java Symposium – Las Vegas show report can be found here.

From InfoQ.com: See JBoss Seam and Hibernate founder/lead Gavin King’s wishlist for Java EE 6.

Could the open source agile, lightweight Google Guice be the next Spring? According to many, apparently so. Impressions are that it’s more agile or lighter then even the Spring Framework.

Check out this chapter excerpt from the newly released and highly anticipated Beginning JBoss Seam, which gives an Introduction to Seam.

I am very much excited and pleased to announce that Beginning JBoss Seam has just published, and is now available on Amazon.com, Apress.com, or your other favorite bookseller.

Today, Sun announces the following news around new products and services that allow developers to bundle Solaris with an enterprise Apache, MySQL, and PHP/Perl/Python stack solution.

In this InfoQ.com interview co EJB 3 spec lead Mike Keith discusses the current state of EJB 3. For more on Mike and EJB, check out his Apress book, Pro EJB 3: Java Persistence API

TheServerSide.com is reporting the release of JBoss Seam 1.1, which features support for RAD/IDE tools, added J2EE 1.4 deployment (and Tomcat), easy CRUD application creation, ready-to-use AJAX components, better JSF validation, and more. For more on Seam, Apress will be publishing Beginning JBoss Seam in Feb 2007.

TheServerSide.com has posted this opinion piece on Eclipse Framework. What do you think?