At the Spring Experience last night Spring founder Rod Johnson declared that Spring became ubiquitous in 2006, and that it had become a defacto standard. Rod did a review of what happened in 2006 to drive such strong growth for Spring:
Februrary.
- Arjen Poustma joins Interface21, focused on Spring Web Services.
May
- Spring gets a gold award for innovation at the JAX conference in Germany.
- Pitchfork released in cooperation with BEA who is using Spring inside WebLogic.
- Oracle also announces Spring integration, and that Oracle Developer Depot runs Spring
- Acegi Security goes 1.0
June
- French online tax portal based on Spring goes into production - handles taxation for 34 million users
- Spring One held in Antwerp, belgium
July
- Voca payment engine goes live in the UK, coinciding with Rod's birthday. Voca has handled 80M transactions since. Voca processses direct debits, credits, and money orders between banks.
August
- Spring LDAP joins the Spring portfolio
- Interface21 trains its 1000th developer on Spring, they have a huge list of upcoming trainings
September
- Spring gets it's 1 millionth download
October
- Spring 2 final releases. 12,000 downloads in the fist 24 hours
- Spring Web Flow goes 1.0 final.
- Former Solarmetric co-founder Neelan Choksi joins I21 from BEA, where he managed the open sourcing of Kodo as the OpenJPA project. Adrian Colyer and Ramniavs Laddadd also joined I21 last year.
2007 will be an even more exciting year, according to Rod. Upcoming are releases of Spring OSGi, Spring Web Services, and further improvements to Spring Web Flow.
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