04/30/2008

SpringSource today announced the release of the SpringSource Application Platform™, an enterprise Java application server that provides a simpler alternative to legacy application servers and changes the way in which Java applications are deployed and run.

ebizQ received the following:

The new SpringSource Application Platform liberates Java users after years of contending with antiquated legacy Java technologies. The SpringSource Application Platform is based on the new SpringSource Dynamic Module Kernel™ (dm-Kernel) technology. The dm-Kernel provides a module-based backbone for the server, which also harnesses the power of Spring, Apache Tomcat and OSGi-based technologies. With the release of the Application Platform, SpringSource now delivers Spring, the de facto standard enterprise Java programming model and a next-generation runtime application server.

“The future of enterprise Java is clear and bright, with leaner, more powerful solutions increasingly being used in both development and production,” said Rod Johnson, CEO of SpringSource. “The SpringSource Application Platform, comprised of the dm-Kernel we developed, along with the proven Spring, Eclipse Equinox and Apache Tomcat technologies inside, provides the industry with the leanest, most flexible server for running enterprise Java applications. Organizations now have a choice that reduces the complexity associated with legacy Java EE servers.”

Built in accordance with Spring’s longstanding standards of simplicity, flexibility and power, the SpringSource Application Platform offers significant benefits to developers, operations and management.

For the operations team, the SpringSource Application Platform features seamless application and resource library upgrades, side-by-side version deployments, as well as application monitoring and analysis from URL throughput to query, cache and transaction statistics. For the development team, it provides a flexible and resilient development server that resolves the vexing application dependency problems that are a common challenge with legacy Java EE application packaging. The SpringSource Application Platform enables repeated incremental deployments without server restarts, shortening iterative development-test cycles and providing an ideal platform for today’s agile development approaches.

“To date, Java developers have had two choices for deploying web applications: Java EE servers and servlet containers. Java EE servers are complex, and servlet containers aren't designed for exposing software components as services," said Joe Niski and Kirk Knoernschild, analysts with Burton Group. "Meanwhile, OSGi offers a modular, dynamic, and flexible runtime environment for application code, but without networking capabilities. The combination of an OSGi container and the Apache Tomcat servlet engine offers a different model for designing and deploying applications and services written in Java.”