Pitchfork is a metadata translater that translates the JEE metadata to Spring metadata. It enables the WebLogic Server to use Spring Framework performing JSR-250 dependency injection, annotation processing and EJB 3.0-style interception. It also provides the dependency injection extension to WebLogic Server JEE components based on standard Spring descriptors.

For detail about this feature, please refer to the WebLogic Server documentation for Spring Dependency Injection Extension for WebLogic Server

The latest version of Pitchfork that works with Spring 2.5.* is packaged with the latest WebLogic Server releases.

Sponsors

• Oracle Corp
• Spring Source

Developers:

• Rod Johnson, SpringSource
• Costin Leau, SpringSource
• Michael Chen, Oracle Corp
• Safin Li, Oracle Corp
• Xiaohai Zhang, Oracle Corp

Pitchfork sightings:

• Implementing JEE with Spring 2.0 and BEA WebLogic
• Pitchfork: EJB 3 Interception & Injection to WebLogic using Spring
• Using JSR-220/250 with Spring on Tomcat