Large Corporate Customers

[Rod Johnson]

You might also find this post by Bill Roth (a BEA VP) interesting:

Spring is coming to the now-verdant hills of San Jose. Not only has the season come to the Diablo range of mountains that borders our fair city, but the framework popularized by Interface21 and Rod Johnson is showing up in a big way as well. Spring is being broadly used in WebLogic customer sites. As I travel around to customer sites, it seemingly comes up everywhere. I have seen it in large government agencies, financial companies, and internet companies. I have seen it used by small consultancies and the large systems integrators.

Source: http://dev2dev.bea.com/blog/wgroth2/..._is_busti.html

[Rod Johnson]

Some other interesting facts:

- The French online tax submission system, delivered by Accenture, is based on Spring. It provides excellent quality of service to serve 34 million tax payers, and was built very quickly due to the productivity benefits brought by Spring. Thomas Van de Velde, the Accenture architect who led this project, has publically presented on this and will be doing so again in June at SpringOne.

- The European Patent Office uses Spring and Spring Web Flow in mission-critical applications providing public access to intellectual property management across 25 countries.

- 5 out of the world's top 10 banks (as reported by The Economist) are clients of Interface21, and making strategic investments in Spring adoption. Numerous products across these companies have been rolled out into production, with excellent results. At least another one of the top 10 banks makes significant use of Spring.

[matthewramella]

We're using Spring here at Anheuser-Busch in St. Louis, MO. AB's a pretty big company, needless to say...

[Rod Johnson]

We normally are unable to cite our largest customers and Spring users publically. However, some of what JP Morgan are doing seems to be public:

http://www.watersonline.com/public/s...ml?page=322256

From a JPM architect:

Tyger now helps us influence which versions of tools are used by providing a pre-integrated stack. Maven, a popular open-source package, allows us to establish a central repository that all systems can automatically pull libraries from as they build. Tyger also leverages Tomcat and Apache, well-established open-source packages, as well as Spring, which is a lightweight container.

Tyger is intended as a standard for use across the bank.

[kris_lander]

Obviously this isn't an official statement, but I we are using Spring through out in a re-implementation of Virgin Mobile UK's (5th biggest mobile phone provider in the UK) B2C website. (www.virginmobile.com). I know that the company that I previously worked for www.opodo.com (one of Europe's largest travel sites) has moved to Spring, and I only have to search for jobs to see how widely it's been used in a lot of big companies.

[gmatthews]

The global medical device company that I work for operates business systems built using Spring, Hibernate, Oracle.

They're reasonably big systems, used almost 24x7 by offices in the US, UK/Europe, Australia, Japan and various other countries.

There's no way that only a few of us developers could have built the systems, with their various email, scheduling, remoting, and web interfaces to the high standard that it is built without Spring. By high standard, I am reflecting on the reasonably low number of bugs compared with previous projects I've been in.

- Spring makes it easy to do simple things quickly.

- Systematic way to do everything so that software architecture doesn't go off the rails once the usual barrage of enhancement requests come flooding in as the business really begins using the application.

- Even though the terms have been around for a long time, it seems like Spring pulls it all together and provides a lingo for describing how a system can be put together. You can have quite a short conversation with another Spring developer and convey a lot of information about how you intend to build a component.

[Cowboy Bob]

I completed work on the British Trust For Ornithology's new sales site a few months ago, and it has now gone live - http://blx1.bto.org/btos

This is a Spring/Hibernate/Oracle/OC4J based application and since it has gone live I have had no reports of instability etc. They don't get hits in the millions, but the site is one of the more popular sites in the UK for birdwatchers apparantly so the load is fairly reasonable.

[AndyG]

Nice site, Cowboy Bob! Looks and feels great!

May I ask what view technology you implemented?

[Cowboy Bob]

May I ask what view technology you implemented?

Certainly. It's just using JSP with standard JSTL includes. The site isn't really complex enough (header, footer, side nav, content) to warrant anything more heavy duty.

I used Andromda - http://www.andromda.org/ - to generate my DTOs, DAO stubs, and Spring service stubs from a UML diagram which is a great time saver.

Shameless plug : I also used a bunch of extension modules that I've open-sourced to do security, auto-generated breadcrumbs etc - http://mpsc-modules.sourceforge.net

[AndyG]

Certainly. It's just using JSP with standard JSTL includes. The site isn't really complex enough (header, footer, side nav, content) to warrant anything more heavy duty.

I used Andromda - http://www.andromda.org/ - to generate my DTOs, DAO stubs, and Spring service stubs from a UML diagram which is a great time saver.

Shameless plug : I also used a bunch of extension modules that I've open-sourced to do security, auto-generated breadcrumbs etc - http://mpsc-modules.sourceforge.net

Thanks for the info and for sharing the extension modules!