SpringSource launches new Application Platform

SpringSource, the company behind Spring framework, launches new Application Platform without Java EE standerds! The Application Platform has been built on Spring, OSGi, and Apache Tomcat. The new appserver departs from the Java2 EE standards, exposing the Spring programming model natively, along with a new deployment and packaging system.

I was reading the overview of it and was amazed by reading the following development and production benefits. It is our dream to modularize the big applications that we are developing and do the updates in production server in real time without shutting down the system for long time.

I am just pasting the benefits SpringSource are talking about -

Production Benefits

• Real time application and server updates
• Better resource utilization
• Side by side resource versioning
• Longer server uptime
• Run new and old web application

Development Benefits

• Faster iterative development
• Small server footprint
• More manageable applications
• Greater code reuse
• Resolve transitive dependencies

Nice blogs have been written by the development team about the architecture.

http://blog.springsource.com/main/2008/04/30/introducing-the-springsource-application-platform/

The overall introduction is given on the official site of SpringSource -

http://www.springsource.com/web/guest/products/suite/applicationplatform

I have the strong desire to explore more on this!