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Spring Framework is one of the best examples of technology success on the back of a very strong community. Back in early 2000, there was no one to question J2EE as a standard, which was driven by Sun Microsystems – the creators of Java itself. Without incredible support from the Java development community, it would have been impossible for rebel framework like Spring to succeed – but, that’s what happened and now there are more than 10 million downloads (estimated by Gartner) and over 6 million active Spring users worldwide.

As we know, it is the Spring community that is behind the incredible success that the technology has enjoyed – there are numerous strong and active Spring User Groups in various countries. It is good to see that an active Spring user community developing in India. It’s also heartening to see SpringSource playing an active role in imparting the Spring Framework expertise through their official training courses to the massive Spring user community in India – by partnering with SpringPeople (http://www.springpeople.com), the master training and consulting partners for SpringSource. This has been a much awaited and welcome news for Java developers in India looking for quality training on Spring Framework and related technologies – the only two alternatives before this were either to undergo training from other grey market training providers, often are very poor in quality, or to go for official SpringSource University training outside India – a very expensive and inconvenient option.

SpringPeople recently published the full training schedule for 2011 (http://www.springpeople.com/courses/schedule.php) – and to the delight of many, it includes not just Core Spring, but also other eagerly awaited courses like Enterprise Integration with Spring, Rich Web Applications with Spring, Hibernate with Spring, Tomcat Administration and Groovy & Grails. Needless to say, the possibilities/options for Spring users in India to improve their skills and enhance their expertise of the technology have taken a massive leap – be it undergoing the official Spring training or interacting with the local, like minded software developers.