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…

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 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…”

ProNetBeans.com can be your source for learning NetBeans. You can find tutorials, news, etc. on the open source, agile NetBeans IDE.

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

blogs.sun.com: NetBeans Podcast Episode #27 – Interview with Adam Myatt of Pro NetBeans IDE 5.5 Enterprise Edition. Adam is interviewed about his new NetBeans book, his favorite features in NetBeans, future of Java and other interesting topics.

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.

Apress and NetBeans power developer/user Adam Myatt proudly announce that Pro NetBeans IDE 5.5 Enterprise Edition has published, and is/will soon be available on Amazon.com as well as other booksellers. As editor of this book, I’ve been asked the question: Why NetBeans?

InfoQ.com interviews the esteemed Ola Bini, one of the JRuby leads.

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.

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

NetBeans announces support for Ruby/JRuby. While it comes as no surprise, it’s a reminder that Sun clearly recognizes the Java community interests in Ruby on Rails, and is providing options…

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…

InfoQ.com reports: The Spring IDE is nearing release of version 2.0. Spring IDE is a set of plugins for Eclipse and soon NetBeans providing a GUI for Spring’s config files.

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

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…

Indeed, there is lot of work going on right now that’s focusing in on the various mechanisms for deploying JRuby-based applications; and this article will summarize some of the work happening currently: Advanced Rails Deployment with JRuby.

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.