SAN MATEO, Calif.: SpringSource, a division of VMware, Inc., and a provider in Java application infrastructure and management, on Monday announced that it would host SpringOne 2GX, the company's fifth annual developer conference, being held at the Roosevelt Hotel in New Orleans from October 19-22, 2009.

This year, SpringOne Americas is joining forces with the Groovy/Grails Experience Conference (2GX) for a technical exploration of the Spring ecosystem along with the latest developments in Groovy and Grails, Apache Tomcat and Hyperic technologies, said a press release.

SpringSource and No Fluff Just Stuff Symposium Series are co-producing this premier Java event of 2009.
"Developers are using VMware and SpringSource solutions together to streamlineJava application development and deployment. Together, our products provide a superior end-to-end platform for the whole applications lifecycle—from building an application simply and rapidly, to running it with all the benefits of virtualization, to managing it for optimum performance and availability," said Parag Patel, vice president of alliances at VMware.

He added that they are excited to sponsor SpringOne for the second year running because the event provides Spring developers with tools to simplify Java application development, from the desktop to the datacenter to the cloud."

The four-day conference is an opportunity for application developers, solution architects, web operations and IT teams who develop, deploy and manage business applications to share insights on current development challenges and to showcase the latest advances in Spring and Groovy/Grails technologies, said the release.

Dave Gruber, group product marketing manager at Adobe said that they've seen tremendous customer demand for an integrated, enterprise solution combining the open source Spring framework with the open source Flex framework. SpringSource and Adobe have worked together to deliver a robust, scalable offering enabling Java developers to build and deploy cross-platform rich Internet applications.

Spring, Groovy, Grails and Apache Tomcat are among the most popular application infrastructure solutions in the world. Spring is the de facto standard programming model for enterprise Java applications and has been downloaded more than six million times, said the release.

Apache Tomcat is a popular application server while Groovy is one of the most popular alternative languages for JVM.

Interest in Grails, a rapid web application development framework based on Groovy and Spring adoption, is rapidly growing and Hyperic is the leading web application performance monitoring and management software used by thousands of companies worldwide.

"In our continued quest to provide leadership in Java development, we felt it was important to also include in the conference sessions that investigate all of the challenges that face today's developers, from desktop to data center and into the cloud," said Rod Johnson, general manager of SpringSource, a division of VMware.