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.

Reviewed by Struts2 co-creator Patrick Lightbody, Practical Apache Struts2 Web 2.0 Projects by Ian Roughley has just published, and should be available at your bookstore. Click here for a sample chapter excerpt on Web 2.0 and Struts2.

Here are a couple of links to JavaWorld.com articles on the new more agile and lightweight Apache Struts 2.0 Java MVC Web application development framework and APIs.

• Struts 2.0 in Action

• Adopting Struts 2.0

For more on Struts 2, check out our new Apress book, Practical Apache Struts2 Web 2.0 Projects.

This book is written by practicing Struts developer and Struts contributor, Ian Roughley, and reviewed by the Apache Struts2 project co-creator, Patrick Lightbody. Enjoy.

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.

The First International Grails eXchange, sponsored by Apress, is being held October 17th-19th at the Barbican Centre, London, UK…

Ola Bini is one of the core team of developers working on JRuby and the author of Practical JRuby on Rails Web 2.0 Projects, announced separately here on Ruby Inside. In conjunction with the launch of the book, I wanted to ask Ola some questions about his involvement with JRuby, how he used his knowledge to write the book, and where JRuby’s future is heading from here….

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.

Ruby on Rails to Java: this may be a possible alternative to JRuby on Rails, according to Brian Leonard on Java.net. What do you think?

From Crazy Bob Lee, founder and lead of Google Guice project, here’s a quote and link to article on the differences between Spring and Google Guice…

Here is a chapter excerpt from the new Practical JBoss Seam Projects book: click here to download.

This week, Apress publishes its second book on the popular open source Java EE 5 application development framework, JBoss Seam. Written by enterprise Java expert and best selling author, Jim Farley…

Eclipse Europa is apparently coming on June 29th, but I do not sense any kind of level of excitement around this release for the Java community. Do you?

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…

Learn more about the Spring Web framework in this excerpt on the Spring MVC Application Architecture, from one of the best selling Apress Java books, Expert Spring MVC and Web Flow.

As reported on a number of sites, Adobe announced plans to release source code for Adobe Flex SDK and framework under the open source Mozilla Public License (MPL)...

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…

Michael Yuan: Petr Pisl of Sun has just released a first-look Seam Gen plugin for NetBeans. It allows you to generate complete Seam CRUD applications in NetBeans

JBoss Seam is apparently at a critical juncture, according to Seam founder/lead Gavin King in his blog...

Get an introduction to the JBoss Seam framework in this chapter excerpt from the recently published Beginning JBoss Seam book.

From Skills Matter: Free Session: In-the-Brain of Graeme Rocher: Grails: Spring + Hibernate development re-invented, April 19th…

Check out this IndicThreads.com interview: Grails is a breath of fresh air for Java developers. Grame is author of The Definitive Guide to Grails.

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.

If you’re in the London area and are interested in learning more about Grails, consider attending a one-day workshop put on by Grails founder and Apress author Graeme Rocher.

News breaking on tutorial day from EclipseCon: Red Hat JBoss announces a partnership with Exadel…

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

From TheServerSide.com: The Groovy Series is an audio lecture on Groovy and is part of the Grails Podcast. The episodes are produced by Dierk König and Sven Haiges. The first episode…

TheServerSide.com is reporting that JBoss Seam 1.2 GA is now available. It includes Spring Framework integration via Spring beans…

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.

Apache Struts 2, otherwise known as Struts Action Framework 2, combines the best of Struts 1.2 + J2SE 5 compliance + WebWork Framework to get…

Here is an overview of the new Spring Framework 2.0, as it is re-purposed from The Spring Framework – Reference Documentation found in its entirety online at SpringFramework.org.

I recently downloaded the latest Seam distribution, 1.1.5. I mainly wanted this for the Security release. Officially 1.1.5 is when Seam adds Security, and I wanted to update the source code for my book, Beginning JBoss Seam, accordingly. Here’s what happened…

The Grails project is pleased to announce the immediate availability of the 0.4 release of the Grails web application framework.

DevX.com: This article introduces you to the Apache Geronimo GBean framework architecture and shows you how to build and deploy a simple GBean.

Here are my top ten predictions in Java for 2007…

From InfoQ.com: The momentum behind Groovy continued to increase this week with the announcement of Big Sky Technology’s funding of Jochen Theodorou’s services full time to work on the project and the launch of the aboutGroovy portal.

Check out this excerpt from the newly published The Definitive Guide to Grails by Grails lead Graeme Rocher.

The Definitive Guide to Grails written by Grails founder and lead Graeme Rocher and reviewed by Groovy lead Guillaume LaForge and Dierk Koenig, has published…

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.

With the Google Web Toolkit (GWT) 1.3 Release Candidate, the GWT development team announces that all of GWT is now open source under the Apache 2.0 license. The GWT is now also a part of Eclipse.

This article by Tom Wheeler, Senior Software Engineer at Object Computing, Inc. (OCI) introduces the NetBeans platform and shows you how you can get started by reusing existing components.

An Apress eBook is now available for the forthcoming The Definitive Guide to Grails book by Grails founder and lead Graeme Rocher.

While you’re waiting for Beginning JBoss Seam from Apress, check out the currently available tutorial reference on Seam, essentially the definitive guide to JBoss Seam, available now online from Red Hat JBoss.

BTW, this is a good resource… my colleague and Apress open source editorial director, Jason Gilmore, is pointing to it from the Apress Inside Open Source site.

Otherwise, you can also find it directly at Eclipse Plugin Central.