This last week has seen a record number of... well, records, if nothing else!
First, Juergen Hoeller - Spring project lead and all around nice guy - gave a webinar introducing the new features in Spring 3.1 to record attendance numbers.
Then, as if that weren't enough, the next day the first milestone of Spring 3.1 was released to record numbers of downloads. That would've been enough. I don't know about you, but I could've stopped right there. Then, over the course of the last week we've seen what I imagine is a record number of new releases from other Spring projects! Finally, yesterday, no doubt in reaction to all this other record activity, we saw the largest record number of people hit the SpringSource blog yet!
In summary, Spring 3.1 milestone mania, numerous new projects, and as always a healthy dose of community-awesomeness (go team!)
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<li>Hot on the heels of Juergen's Spring 3.1 webinar, Chris Beams got the ball rolling on the first three of many posts on the numerous new features in Spring 3.1.
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The first post introduces Spring 3.1 M1, generally.
The second post introduces Spring 3.1's "profiles," which let you partition your beans along environment-specific lines with Environments. The third post introduces the Unified Property Management capabilities of the
Environment abstraction.
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Matt Raible has put…