The Spring Framework (2.5.4) is now available at the GlassFish v2 Update Center (UC@TA). Installation should be straight-forward: after installing GlassFish v2, run the updatecenter via: $GLASSFISH_ROOT/updatecenter/bin/updatetool There are a couple of post-intallation steps to do; check out the details at Pramod's Note and let us know of your experience, positive or negative.

Note this is the GF v2 update center. And thanks to Rajeshaw to help pushing the module out.

JAX-RS co-spec lead and Jersey implementation lead Paul Sandoz has a post on integration between Spring and Jersey 0.6. The approach adapts the basic implementation of ComponentProvider (responsible for component instantiation in Jersey) to the Spring framework. Giving the deployment choices offered by Jersey (Grizzly, GlassFish, Java SE 6), you don't have to be using Tomcat :)

Carol McDonald has updated her sample application to the latest versions of GlassFish (v2ur1), Spring (v2.5), and NetBeans (6.0) : • Sample Application using JSF, Spring 2.5, and Java Persistence APIs

Jersey News from Marc: • How to Integrate Spring and Jersey using the SPI previously reported. • The integration is also mentioned by Paul. • ... and don't forget that Jersey is now in the Update Center.

The first of a series: I'm pleased to announce that one of the GlassFish Day pods will be dedicated to showcasing the Spring Framework. Among others features, I expect demos of the new Spring support in GlassFish WebServices. Thanks to Rod Johnson for his willingness to join us. I hope this will be a good opportunity to improve further the integration between GlassFish and Spring.

For an overview of GF Day check here; and, for a free registration, here. And stay tuned for more announcements.

The GlassFish Web Services team has released a new version of Spring Support as part of the set of JAX-WS Extensions. This release includes support for Local (in-JVM) Transport, mostly useful for testing without a web container. Check Kohsuke's announcement, and enjoy!

What about this for a catchy title for a blog: Spring and GlassFish VS Seam and JBoss... The answer is that GlassFish is happy to work with both the Spring and the Hibernate and JBoss Seam communities. Sorry, no duels not to the Death, ... and neither to the Pain!.

Rod Johnson reports that GlassFish is gaining traction and that both his Interface 21 team and some users (such as Wotif) have found it to be a very good application server. He goes on to mention the JAX-WS Spring integration which is now provided as part of the newly released JAX-WS 2.1 (see also performance numbers).

GlassFish is becoming more than just a Java EE 5 production-ready application server. It's also a suite of very capable libraries which you are welcome to use and reuse in various software architectures--with Spring or any other technology you'd like.

The JAX-WS @ GlassFish team added Spring Support to the JAX-WS RI in early January and there were so many comments to the blog that the team started a mailing thread. The response so far has been quite positive, see for example this quote: We're now going from XFire to JAXWS (XFire had a big bug regarding soap headers)... Thanks Kohsuke!!

The JAX-WS RI will be available in the GlassFish v2 beta later this month, but it can also be used in other containers. There is plenty of time to improve this support before GlassFish v2 final, so please check it out and provide feedback.

Check out the first installment of the improved support for the Spring Framework in GlassFish that enables the use of Spring for wiring implementation and handler classes for JAX-WS Web Services. Kohsuke is soliciting feedback from people with Spring experience. The Spring support is an extension to the JAX-WS implementation and, like HTTP Session State it is described at the JAX-WS-Commons project, similar in spirit to JAXB2-Commons project.