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Aspectow v4.2.0 is a major feature and performance milestone that introduces full integration with Aspectran 9.8.0 and its embedded Netty (aspectran-with-netty) server engine, real-time metric time-series visualizations in the AppMon dashboard (inline sparklines and interactive popover charts), a lightweight lock-free Redis connection pool architecture, and a lightweight MaxMind GeoIP2-based IPCountryResolver. Read More ›

This release is a major architectural milestone featuring native HTTP/2 protocol support for Netty and Undertow, a high-performance Redis Sorted Set-based session expiration index and lock-free striped connection pool for large-scale distributed clustering, enhanced WebSocket multi-message broadcasting and serialized asynchronous messaging, streamlined action execution exception handling and parameter binding, and comprehensive modernization and JSpecify null-safety standardization across the core utilities. Read More ›

For many developers, a CLI (Command-Line Interface) is often viewed merely as a transient script runner for starting servers or executing simple administration tasks. Within the Aspectran ecosystem, however, Aspectran Shell is far more than a basic command runner. It is a standalone, full-featured interactive application platform seamlessly integrated with an IoC/DI container, AOP proxy engine, stateful session management, and the unified Translet architecture. Read More ›

An architectural design proposal for zero-downtime routing that seamlessly redirects incoming client requests to other active cluster nodes when a specific node transitions to a paused state. Read More ›

This release is a major architectural milestone that moves beyond the limitations of the traditional Jakarta Servlet ecosystem, introducing the aspectran-with-netty module for high-performance non-blocking networking combined with Java 21 Virtual Threads, and comprehensively refactoring the web module architecture into aspectran-web and aspectran-web-servlet. Read More ›

Aspectran recently achieved #1 among Java web frameworks in the global Web Frameworks Benchmark, proving its industry-leading throughput, efficiency, and architectural resilience to engineers worldwide. Yet Aspectran’s journey of innovation never stands still. The upcoming Aspectran 9.7.0 release is far more than an incremental version bump—it marks a fundamental paradigm shift in Aspectran’s web runtime architecture. Ahead of the official 9.7.0 release, we want to share the architectural philosophy, motivation, and exciting breakthroughs behind this milestone. Read More ›

Aspectran has officially been registered and evaluated in the open-source Web Frameworks Benchmark project. In the latest benchmark results released today, Aspectran achieved #1 in Average Throughput (Average RPS) and #1 across Concurrency 64 and 256 among all tested Java web frameworks. Read More ›

The Aspectow v4.1.0 release is a feature-rich minor update that significantly enhances Continuous Integration & Delivery (CI/CD) automation and remote lifecycle operations (Build & Deployment), introduces process-independent safe server restarts (Detached Server Restart), and strengthens enterprise security governance and compliance audit trails (Security & Compliance Audit). Read More ›

This release marks a major milestone for Aspectow, the foundational framework powering the commercial Aspectow Enterprise edition. Notably, aspectow-console is now bundled by default to deliver the administration control plane for Aspectow Enterprise. Evolving from the legacy aspectow-appmon project, Aspectow establishes a robust modular architecture composed of three core components: Node Manager (aspectow-node) for clustering, AppMon (aspectow-appmon) for application telemetry, and Aspectow Console (aspectow-console) for managing Aspectran-based web applications across distributed environments. Read More ›

This release focuses on adding dependsOn support for the IoC container, introducing a job locking mechanism for distributed environments, and a complete overhaul of the wildcard matching engine. Various features have been added and the internal architecture improved to enhance stability and operational efficiency in enterprise environments. Read More ›