Spring Integration

[Drew Varner <dr...@redops.org>]

  I was wondering what would be necessary to move the Spring support  
out of samples into the core of Controls.

There has been talk of supporting non-Tomcat containers and I think  
the Spring support is the closest thing out there now. It'd provide  
the ability to support transactions, timers (Quartz or CommonJ), AOP  
and other J2EE goodies across multiple containers.

I'd really like to see Controls made available to Grails using Spring  
service injection (perhaps via their plugin mechanism, but that's a  
patch for Grails...).

I am not sure what the criteria would be to transition the Spring  
support out of samples.  I think a full set of unit tests and  
documentation would be in order. Would this be a good thing?

- Drew