Springframework 重演 Redhat/Fedora/CentOS 既歷史

SpringFramework 已經成為Java application最重要既application framework 之一, 佢背後既 SpringSource公司亦開始收緊spring framework 既更新發佈.

http://www.springframework.org/node/768

Customers who are using SpringSource Enterprise, available under a subscription, will receive maintenance releases for three years from the general availability of a major new version. These customers receive ongoing, rapid patches as well as regular maintenance releases to address bugs, security vulnerabilities and usability issues, making SpringSource Enterprise the best option for production systems.

After a new major version of Spring is released, community maintenance updates will be issued for three months to address initial stability issues. Subsequent maintenance releases will be available to SpringSource Enterprise customers. Bug fixes will be folded into the open source development trunk and will be made available in the next major community release of the software.

SpringFramework 始終都係open source software, 呢D bug fix 仍然係會source code repository 出現. 不過要有最新update 就要自己build. 情況就好似收費既Redhat Enterprise 同免費Fedora Linux 既關係. 於是Linux 既世界有左CentOS, 佢拎番Redhat Enterprise 既 source 重新build 一個免費既版本. 但仍然可以緊跟Redhat 為RHEL 發佈既fixes.

同樣既事發生係Spring framework. 有人搞左個freespring.org. 會將最新既Springframework 自行compile 同發佈. 而唔需要等major release 先有bug fix.

呢度其實多唔多人/有無人用緊Spring?