I have been a big fan of the Spring Framework since its first release in 2004 and have been using it in almost all my projects. When the application server written by the same company--the SpringSource dm Server--first came out in April 2008, even though it was in the beta release, I immediately installed it on my machine and tried it out. Note that when it was in the beta release, the dm Server was named the SpringSource Application Platform. When...