Saturday 16 August 2014

Executive View of Spring IO

Pivotal released the first version of their new Spring IO Platform 1.0 in June 2014, which is indeed in line with original Spring's aim: bring simplicity to Java development.

Before moving to executive highlights of Spring IO platform, one should know some formerly vs. current key points about Spring.
Formerly
Now
Referred as "Spring Framework and related project"
Highlighted as "Spring IO Platform = Spring IO Foundation + Spring Execution"
Spring framework founders -> Created SpringSource -> Purchased by VMWare -> In April 2013 VMware, and its parent company EMC Corporation created a joint venture called Pivotal
Sponsored and led by Pivotal

A bird's-eye view of Spring IO Platform and Projects

Following mind mapping diagram represents high level view of Spring IO, which brings together the Spring family of projects into a cohesive and versioned foundational platform for modern applications. On top of this foundation it also provides domain-specific execution environments for a variety of enterprise workloads.

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