It’s time to summarize the best of Java tools of 2008 as seen from the Spring Centre of Excellence. Be sure to take a look at every item in the list, you will not be wasting your time.
Spring Framework
We begin with the usual suspect, the Spring Framework. Spring is a light-weight alternative to EJBs. At its core, it is a dependency injection container and AOP runtime, but includes many other technologies that make up today’s Java EE applications.
Head off to springframework.org and download the latest release version. To get you started, get our latest book, Pro Spring 2.5.
SpringSource dm Server
The dm Server and Spring Dynamic Modules bring advances to Java EE application deployment and management similar to the adances the Spring Framework brought to Java EE development.
Go to SpringSource dm Server, download it and give it a try.