Tomcat 7

The Apache Software Foundation Announces Apache Tomcat Version 7.0

https://blogs.apache.org/foundation/entry/the_apache_software_foundation_announces5

Spring Framework 3.0.3

..." all major persistence providers have released GA versions with JPA 2.0 support, even including a JPA 2.0 feature pack for WebSphere 7. This clearly suggests that JPA 2.0 is about to become mainstream… A good time to give it a try if you haven't done so already! Of course, Spring 3 is happy to work with a server-provided JPA 2.0 EntityManagerFactory (e.g. in a WebSphere environment), while also being able to bring the full power of embedded JPA 2.0 to Tomcat and standalone environments"...

Spring Source Blog

http://blog.springsource.com/2010/06/15/spring-framework-3-0-3-released/

bpm with activiti

Getting started with Activiti 5.0.alpha2

Activiti is a Business Process Management (BPM) and workflow system targeted at business people, developers and system admins. Its core is a super-fast and rock-solid BPMN 2 process engine for Java. It's open-source and distributed under the Apache license. Activiti runs in any Java application, on a server, on a cluster or in the cloud. It integrates perfectly with Spring, it is extremely lightweight and based on simple concepts.

VIDEO:

http://vimeo.com/12289522