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.

Here is a link to the new Apress Editorial Calendar. It’s a rolling calendar from years past looking into 2008. Enjoy.

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.

From PCWorld.com: “Don’t expect much to be added to Ruby on Rails this year. …he’s (David Heinemeier Hansson) as likely to talk about what’s coming out as what’s going in…”

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…

Check out this chapter excerpt from Pro Apache Geronimo, which covers Web Application Development with Geronimo.

Here are our highlights from JavaOne so far. Contributed in part by Rob Warner. From JavaFX to what to expect in Java EE 6 platform and much more.

With JavaOne here and the likely anticipated news of an official Java EE 6 and JSF 2 proposal, here’s an Apress book excerpt on Using Rich Internet Technologies, revisiting the acclaimed Pro JSF and Ajax by Jonas Jacobi and John Fallows.

Check out this DevX article on the battle brewing between IBM and Red Hat JBoss over the open source J2EE/Java EE application servers, Apache Geronimo and JBoss Application Server, respectively.

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.

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

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

Apache Geronimo 2.0-M1 has been released and is available for user download.

InfoQ.com and many other sites are reporting that Java SE and Java ME platforms has been GPL’d. But who really cares?

TheServerSide.com points to this SOA meets Web 2.0: Where the Java EE standards fall short article on SearchWebServices. While it’s an interesting piece, I disagree.