SpringSource Enterprise Released

Enterprise Subscription Delivers Comprehensive Capabilities and Support to Develop and Run Spring-Powered Applications

SAN MATEO, Calif.—April 2, 2008— SpringSource, the company behind Spring, the ubiquitous enterprise Java™ application platform, today announced the availability of  SpringSource Enterprise, which includes certified, tested and indemnified software coupled with advanced production and development capabilities and support.

“Spring software has been downloaded more than five million times, and is now the ubiquitous platform for applications throughout the world of enterprise Java,” said Neelan Choksi, chief operating officer at SpringSource. “With SpringSource Enterprise, customers receive stable, secure and trusted downloads and support directly from the creators of Spring.”

SpringSource Enterprise customers receive stable software, maintained with the latest patches and bug fixes, as well as responsive production and developer support. SpringSource Enterprise is comprised of:

  • Spring Enterprise Edition – the enterprise version of Spring which is certified, warranted and indemnified.  This includes the latest bug fixes as well as enterprise-class monitoring integration.
  • SpringSource Support – support from the source maximizes production uptime, developer productivity and application performance using Spring.
  • SpringSource Performance Suite – applications to ensure that customers develop, test and run Spring applications effectively. 

The SpringSource Performance Suite provides the tools that enable customers to benefit from next-generation application development tools, advanced database integration capabilities and comprehensive application monitoring and management capabilities. The suite is comprised of:

SpringSource Tool Suite
The recently introduced SpringSource Tool Suite is an Eclipse-powered development environment for building enterprise applications using the Spring Portfolio. The tool incorporates a task focused user interface to speed development, architecture review tools to guide developers toward best practices, and runtime error analysis with automated resolution lookup to help developers solve problems in running applications.

SpringSource Advanced Pack for Oracle
SpringSource Advanced Pack for Oracle Database enables enterprise Java applications using the Spring Portfolio to leverage powerful features only available in the Oracle database. The Advanced Pack does this without any code changes to the Spring Beans running in the application. Getting more reliable, better performing and more flexible applications is now possible without compromising the integrity of the business model objects. SpringSource Advanced Pack for Oracle finally allows the investment in high performing databases to be realized in the application tier.

SpringSource Application Management Suite
SpringSource Application Management Suite (AMS) is a comprehensive enterprise application management tool. It is designed to manage and monitor all of your Spring-powered applications, the Spring runtime, and a variety of platforms and application servers. SpringSource AMS provides a single console with powerful dashboards that enable you to easily check the health of your applications. With SpringSource AMS, developers and operations staff can monitor application performance, reduce application downtime, enforce service-level agreements, analyze trends over time, and much more.

Availability
SpringSource Enterprise is available as an annual subscription in three different support levels, Silver, Gold and Platinum, tailored to organizations' different sizes and needs. Please visit http://www.springsource.com/web/guest/products/enterprise for more information.

About SpringSource
SpringSource is the company behind the ubiquitous Spring Portfolio, the leading enterprise Java™ application platform. SpringSource offers a single source for products and services to help organizations utilize Spring and, through its recent acquisition of Covalent, manage infrastructure technologies from the Apache Software Foundation. An increasing number of organizations are choosing a combination of Spring and Apache Tomcat for their production infrastructure to rapidly develop, test, deploy and run mission-critical enterprise applications. More than half of the Fortune 500, including many of the world’s largest financial institutions, retailers, manufacturers, healthcare, technology and public sector clients are SpringSource customers. For more information visit:  www.springsource.com.

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