Thursday, 5 October 2006

Spring and Oracle Enhance Open Source Offering

In a move aimed at extending its support of Interface21 and the Spring community, Oracle has announced that it has provided integration of TopLink Essentials, the open source EJB 3.0 Java Persistence API (JPA) reference implementation, with the latest Spring Framework release. Among numerous other innovations and enhancements, version 2.0 of the Spring Framework includes support for JPA and will ship with TopLink Essentials. Interface21, the company behind Spring, and Oracle have been working closely together to add JPA support to Spring Framework 2.0. Oracle and Interface21 will use their combined technologies to drive adoption of lightweight open source development frameworks that simplify the creation of next-generation application platforms.

“The recently reached milestone of one million downloads of the Spring Framework is a testament to its value for developers and its ability to simplify the development process,” said Dennis Leung, vice president, Oracle Fusion Middleware development, Oracle. “By combining the Spring Framework with the premier JPA solution in the open source community – TopLink Essentials – developers gain an integrated open source framework which will help them decrease costs and improve their productivity.”

The integration of TopLink Essentials with the Spring Framework 2.0 is expected to make it easier for developers to build next-generation applications by enabling them to access business data as POJOs (Plain Old Java Objects). "Until now, there was no standard persistence implementation, which forced developers to use proprietary persistence solutions", said Oracle. Spring 2.0 now comes with built-in support for the Java Persistence API, integrated with Spring’s own, proven, POJO programming model, and includes TopLink Essentials.

“Extending our partnership with Oracle and completing this technology integration is a significant addition to the Spring Framework directly benefiting our open source community and corporate users,” said Rod Johnson, founder of the Spring Framework and CEO of Interface21.