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Spring Security 2 Released

The new 2.0 version of Spring Security (formerly Acegi Security) was recently released.  Some good information is available in a couple spots:

http://blog.springsource.com/main/2008/04/17/spring-security-20-final-release-no-more-dead-fairies/

http://blog.springsource.com/main/2007/12/06/whats-new-in-spring-security-2/

The new version promises to use a lot less XML configuration which was a huge detractor for the 1.x version.  Additionally the Domain Object Security looks interesting; think "ACLs for objects."  Docs on this module are available here:

http://static.springframework.org/spring-security/site/reference/html/domain-acls.html

Cairngorm has some issues

This is a really good post on some of the issues with Cairngorm that most people are not aware of:

http://blog.iconara.net/2008/04/13/architectural-atrocities-part-x-cairngorms-model-locator-pattern/

Cairngorm has achieved popularity  by virtue of its early entry into the Flex framework ecosystem and not necessarily because it's the best.  There should be at least one significant entry into this space very soon that is going to really shake things up.  Framework competition is good!