The Spring Framework is the leading enterprise Java programmingmodel; currently supporting half of all enterprise Java projects andused by approximately two million developers worldwide. The SpringFramework provides a high productivity, lightweight programmingenvironment that makes applications portable across open source andcommercial application server environments from IBM, Oracle and others.
ApacheTomcat is the world’s most widely used Java application server,deployed at more than 60% of all organizations running Java serverapplications. SpringSource is the key contributor to and maintainer ofTomcat and is responsible for more than 95% of the bug fixes over thepast two years.
SpringSource leads Groovy and Grails, a rapidlygrowing dynamic language and Web application framework, each with morethan 70,000 downloads per month. Together, Groovy and Grails deliverthe rapid application productivity of Ruby on Rails for webapplications, while maintaining skill-set and infrastructurecompatibility with Java Virtual Machine (JVM) environments.
Withmore than 3,500 deployments worldwide, SpringSource’s Hypericapplication monitoring and management tools are recognized as among theleading open source offerings in the space. In March,SpringSource/Hyperic was named one of Gartner’s “Cool Vendors in CloudComputing Management and Professional Services.”
