Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! It's been an exciting week for Spring at Pivotal, which you can hear more about at the re-scheduled Pivotal launch event on April 24th.

Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! As usual, we've got a lot to cover, so let's get to it! Spring Mobile lead Roy Clarkson has announced that Spring Mobile 1.1.0.M3 has been released featuring simpler configuration when using a custom domain strategy with SiteSwitcherHandlerInterceptor, support for Kindle Fire device detection (as tablet or mobile depending on which mode they are in), several resolved issues and compatibility with Spring Framework 3.2.2. Our pal Mark Serrano is back, this time with a review of Spring Security lead Rob Winch's book on Spring…

Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring ! I've just returned from Devoxx UK and Devoxx France where I was very happy to talk to developers using Spring from all walks of industry. I also spoke at Skills Matter in London on building web applications using Spring. Thanks to Skills Matter, the London Spring User Group, and to the amazing Rob Harrop for having me, it was such a pleasure! The video from that session is available online if you're interested.

The Kamal's blog has a nice post on how to setup a Spring MVC 3.0-based application. NB that, with more recent releases of Spring, you don't need any XML for web.xml or the Spring application context.

We've got a lot to cover, though, so let's get to it!

The challenges inherent to building enterprise applications that meet China-scale demand are unparalleled. One exemplary Chinese organization using Spring heavily to solve very unique challenges is the Alibaba group. Alibaba is itself an online auction site, like eBay in the west. The Alibaba group in turn owns a few other online service companies, like Alipay (a secure transaction processor, like PayPal in the west), TaoBao (a comparison shopping engine, like Shopzilla in the west), and TMall (an e-tailer, exposing the catalogues of merchants, like Amazon in the west). From the InfoQ article…