My boys over at InfoQ just posted the big news!!!  With JavaOne around the corner, SpringSource released a non-JEE application server. Spring founder, Rob Johnson, explained the main motivations for the release:

“Rod pointed to a number of pain points with today’s current development/production environments such as the duplication of meta data across configuration files, the fact it is common for projects to in essence deploy a server on top of a server (deploying your application along with many tools and frameworks in the same deployable unit), meanwhile they were mostly using only the web container portion of their appserver. SpringSource as a result wanted to provide a simpler platform based on today’s development needs.”

The Spring Framework was game changing when it came out and started to take over a large portion of the J2EE market,  to the point where many projects really only use Tomcat now – along with the different POJO frameworks.  So, this may be a revolution that has already happened, but it is still very interesting.   I cannot wait to see how the Java world reacts.