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Dear Spring Community, We are pleased to announce the third milestone release of the Spring GemFire 1.1 project is now available! The Spring GemFire project aims to make it easier to build Spring-powered highly scalable applications using GemFire as distributed data management platform. The new milestone updates include: read more

Dear Spring Community, I'm pleased to announce that we just released the second milestone build for the next release of the SpringSource Tool Suite (STS). Highlights from this milestone towards 2.8.0: Spring 3.1 support c-Namespace content-assist ... [More] , quick-fix and validation update to m2e 1.0 support for Groovy 1.8.2 enhanced type inferencing for Groovy support for Grails 2.0.0.M2 improved Grails-aware rename refactorings enhancements to the Gradle support More details can be found in the New and Noteworthy for 2.8.0.M2 document. Detailed installation instructions are also available, please look at the installation from the milestone update sites. As always downloads are available from the STS download page, check "Other Downloads". The 2.8.0 release GA is planned for mid October 2011. [Less]

This video provides a live coding introduction to the Spring Data JPA project by Oliver Gierke. Spring JPA aims to significantly improve the implementation of data access layers by reducing the effort to the amount that's actually needed. As a ... [More] developer you write your repository interfaces, including custom finder methods, and Spring will provide the implementation automatically. Spring JPA also takes the concept of a specification from Eric Evans' book Domain Driven Design, that carries the same semantics and provides an API to define such Specifications using the JPA criteria API. Be sure to thumbs up the presentation if you find it useful and subscribe to the SpringSourceDev channel to receive updates about all the latest presentation recordings and screencasts. [Less]

The Cloud Foundry™ team has released the Cloud Foundry Maven Plugin to integrate with applications’ development lifecycle, including deployment to the cloud. The same Maven plugin can be used to manage application pushes and updates to any ... [More] Cloud Foundry instance. Now Cloud Foundry can be integrated directly into your build processes! Just another great reason to try out Cloud Foundry. For all the details read the full post: Rapid Cloud Foundry Deployments with Maven. [Less]

Arjen Poutsma will host a special Spring presentation at GOTOcon Amsterdam this year. Arjen will inform attendees about the new features in Spring 3.1: Spring Framework 3.1 continues Spring's mission with a focus on flexible Java-based ... [More] configuration. This session introduces foundational 3.1 facilities such as environment profiles for application contexts, feature specifications within configuration classes, and Spring’s new caching abstraction. Finally, the session will cover Spring’s ongoing support for enterprise Java specifications: in particular Servlet 3.0 support. Time: Thursday 13:20 - 14:10 Location: Grand Ballroom € 200,- SpringSource discount code for this event: springsource [Less]

Welcome back to another installment of "This Week in Spring." We've got a lot of content this week surrounding Spring Roo, and so, in that spirit, I move that we christen today Rooday, in honor of all the great Roo-related content in this week's ... [More] roundup. Things are kicking into over drive at SpringSource as everybody's preparing for SpringOne. This year's show is an exciting one because it'll be the first year where CloudFoundry will be present, which means that there will be lots of content around CloudFoundry and Spring, together, working as an unbeatable combination. I can't wait! InfoQ did an interview with Spring Social lead Craig Walls on the just-released Spring Social 1.0. Fascinating read! Once the interview has whetted your appetite, be sure to try the Spring Social quickstart. Spring Social got some great coverage elsewhere, too, including this post from adtmag.com on the new 1.0 release. SpringSource Tool Suite 2.7.2 has been released. The new release features support for vFabric tc Server 2.6, support for Spring Roo 1.2.0.M1, and also updates Mylyn to 3.6.2. Great stuff! Spring Roo 1.2.M1 released. The new release is a really exciting one. There are some exciting backoffice changes, of course, like the switch from GPL to Apache 2, and the migration of the code to Github.com, but those are absolutely the least interesting bits in this new milestone. The first, and obvious, improvement for any user will be the speed boost: Spring Roo 1.2 is now ten times faster. If that wasn't enough, there's also service-layer support (e.g, you can generate service objects), choice in which type of repository layer is generated (active-record style or traditional repository objects), much improved, very flexible GWT support, MongoDB support, and multi-schema aware database reverse engineering (DBRE) and shell improvements. Honestly, this little paragraph doesn't do it justice. Check out the blog for the skinny. Spring Roo's moved to Github.com! The source code is now available on the SpringSource Github page. There's a readme.txt at the root of the directory (or, indeed, presented inline on the Spring Roo Github.com page) that you can follow to start hacking on Spring Roo. If nothing else, having the Spring Roo source code is helpful to learn how to write your own custom add-ons, so check it out! Stefan Schmidt chimes in to talk about the the application layering and persistence choices for Spring Roo, providing details on some of the features enumerated in the new release. Speaking of Spring Roo... and Cloud Foundry.. here's a busy post on both of them. It feels like it should be two or three posts, but good stuff, either way! Thymeleaf 1.1's just been released! Thymeleaf is a view template library (like Velocity or FreeMarker) that offers a very clean integration for Spring users. Check it out! Jan Machacek at CakeSolutions has written up a post about his extensions to the Specs2 specification testing framework, BeanTables, which lets you inject and work with Spring beans from your specifications. The blog's helpful, but I would definitely also check the Github.com page itself for a good introduction. Singaram Subramanian has written up a blog on how he was tasked with solving an email integration problem and decided to use Spring Integration. The blog details the code and approach and even talks a bit about the patterns involved. Nice blog, Singaram! [Less]

Start: 2011-10-03 End: 2011-10-06 Timezone: US/Pacific Start: 2011-10-03 End: 2011-10-06 Timezone: US/Pacific Are you heading to JavaOne 2011? If you are, we invite all Spring, Groovy and ... [More] Grails community members to stop by the SpringSource booth (number 5402) to chat with the Spring engineers and see the latest innovations in Spring, Grails and Cloud Foundry. The exhibit space is open Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, roughly 10am-5pm, so there should be plenty of time to get your questions answered. SpringSource technologists are also presenting a lot of sessions as well so be sure to add the following talks to your session builder and reserve a seat: Java Workloads in the Cloud (24701) - Scott Andrews and Ramnivas Laddad Simplify Your JMS Code With Spring (22585) - Bruce Snyder Caching and Data Grids Patterns and Tips (22500) - Costin Leau Building Cloud-Ready Systems with Modern Open Technologies (17381) - Oleg Zhurakousky Fewer Hoops with Hadoop and Spring (22501) - Costin Leau Java Enterprise Applications in the Cloud: Fast, Fun and Easier than Ever (22120) - Stefan Schmidt & Gordon Dickens What's New in Groovy 1.8 (23940) - Guillaume Laforge What's New in Grails 1.4 (24262) - Graeme Rocher Polyglot Persistence in the Cloud with Grails and Java EE (24280) - Graeme Rocher Of course, if you are dedicated member of the Spring community, then SpringOne 2GX 2011 in Chicago is really the event for you. We are just one month away so be sure to register now! [Less]

Dear Spring Community, We’re happy to announce the availability of Spring Roo 1.2.0.M1. Spring Roo is a rapid application development tool for Java, allowing you to create full enterprise applications in just minutes. Please see my blog post with all ... [More] the details about the new features. Spring Roo has a very active community and responsive development team, so if you have any questions on this new release, please feel free to ask the Spring Roo engineering team on the Community Forum. You'll also find us on Twitter - either follow @SpringRoo or just include #SpringRoo in your tweets. We hope you enjoy this new release. [Less]

Dear Spring Community, I'm pleased to announce a minor update 2.7.2 of the SpringSource Tool Suite (STS). The update provides: support for vFabric tc Server 2.6 support for Spring Roo 1.2.0.M1 update to Mylyn 3.6.2 More details on new features and ... [More] bug fixes can be found in the New and Noteworthy document. Detailed installation instructions are also available. As always downloads are available from the STS download page. Enjoy! [Less]

This week you can save € 367,50 on a Core Spring Registration in Amsterdam. Make sure to sign up before Wednesday and save 15% on the official Core Spring training and learn to: Use the Spring Framework to develop Java applications Use dependency ... [More] injection to set up and configure applications Test Spring-based applications Set up Spring configuration using XML, annotations, and Java configuration Use Hibernate and JDBC with Spring to access relational databases Use Spring support for transactions Use aspect-oriented programming (AOP) to add behavior to objects and much more Completion of this training also entitles each student to receive a free voucher to schedule an exam at a Pearson VUE Center to become a Spring Certified Professional Register Now and use the discount code: lastminute15 For a Core Spring Training near you please click here for the schedule [Less]