How do you keep up with all resources related to the Spring Framework and Spring Portfolio?

SpringHub.com is to the rescue! SpringHub.com is an independent initiative to provide the global Open Source community with a SPRING  knowledge base: Your ONE-STOP online portal for free, easy and fast access to all resources related to the Spring Framework and Spring Portfolio of projects...

Finding such resources online by just relying on search engines can be difficult, time-consuming and laborious for you. Search engines can not substitute the laborious work of selection, review and categorization that we are doing for you for free! As SpringHub.com is updated daily with new resources, please enjoy today and come back tomorrow!

What SpringHub.com is all about?

To help you easily and quickly  find the Spring Framework  and Spring Portfolio resources you are looking for, I have centered the SpringHub.com  directory around the following main sections:

1. SPRING DIGEST: List of all blogs, articles, presentations, interviews and news added to SpringHub.com in the current month and in all previous months back to March 2004 in which Spring Framework 1.0 Final was released. Please notice that the ordering defaults to "Newest first", you can rearrange the resources by "Oldest first", "Most popular", "Alphabetical", "Section/Category". 

2. SPRING QUICK START: (Spring Projects, Spring Reference Docs, Spring Portfolio APIs, Spring Terminolgy, Spring Tutorials, Sample Book Chapters, Spring  eBooks)                                                                                                                

2.1 Spring Projects: Access the home of the Spring Framework as well as as Interface21 the company behind the Spring Framework and Spring Portfolio. Browse the source code repository of Spring at FishEye and better understand the changes made to the source code using the following options: Browse, Changelog and Search. Download Spring from SourceForge.net. Search Maven Repository by group, artifact or description for all related projects to Spring. Watch in real time the build activity of Spring Framework and all products of the Spring Portofio. Access the JIRA server for tracking of issues, bugs and patches of Spring. Access reports about Spring provided by SourceKibitzer.org: Progress and Trend Report, Completeness Report, Complexity Report, Size Report. Access the Analysis of Spring Framework by ohloh.net. Particularly interesting is the estimation on how much it would cost to hire a team to write this project from scratch.                                               

2.2 Spring Reference Docs: For each project of the Spring Portfolio, browse the references documentations (HTML format)  or print the related PDF version. Also, browse the Japanese version of the Reference Documentation of the Spring Framework.

2.3 Spring Portfolio APIs:  Convenient access to all APIs (JavaDocs) of each project of the Spring Portfolio.

3. COMMUNITY SUPPORT: (Spring Forums, Spring Mailing Lists, Spring User Groups, Spring FAQs)

4. SPRING RESOURCES: (Spring Blogs, Spring Articles, Spring Presentations, Spring Wikis, Spring Interviews, Spring News, Spring Events) 

5. SPRING PRODUCTS: (Spring Portfolio, Other Related Projects, Spring Libraries, Spring Tools, Spring Books, Miscellaneous)

6. SPRING SERVICES: (Commercial Support, Spring Consulting, Spring Trainings, Spring Jobs, Spring Hosting, Analyst Firms)

7. SPRING USAGE: (Sample Applications/Code, Real-World Usage) 

8. SPRING IN ACADEMIA: (Spring Courses, Academic Papers, Academic Presentations, Academic Thesis, Academic Conferences, Academic Projects)

9. RELATED FRAMEWORKS: (Meta-Frameworks, IoC Frameworks, AOP Frameworks, Web Frameworks, Business Logic, Data Persistence, RIA Frameworks, REST Frameworks, Validation Frameworks, XML Binding Frameworks, Batch Frameworks)

10. RELATED RESOURCES: (Remoting-Web Services, Sun Official Resources, Java IDEs, Web Servers, Web Containers, Application Servers, View Technologies, Open Source Stacks, More Open Source ...)

  Refining this project is an ongoing task, please feel free to give me your feedback.  I hope that you will enjoy surfing through SpringHub.com and come back soon for the frequently updated resources.

Regards,

Slim Baltagi
Chicago, IL, USA