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Dear Spring Community, I am pleased to announce the second milestone release of Spring Data Redis 1.1! Downloads | JavaDocs | Reference Documentation | Changelog Highlights include: Significant enhancements to pipelining functionality Data type ... [More] conversion and deserialization of Redis transaction results High level support for Redis 2.6 scripting through RedisTemplate Modified API for adding or removing multiple List, Set, and Hash elements in one call Support for using RedisTemplate without serialization There is also a new GA release, Spring Data Redis 1.0.6! Downloads | JavaDocs | Reference Documentation | Changelog Spring Data Redis 1.0.6 is a maintenance release containing a few bug fixes and minor enhancements. See the Changelog for more information. For more information about Spring Data Redis please see the home page for a live sample and webinar recording. We look forward to your feedback on the forum or in the issue tracker. We hope to see you at the upcoming SpringOne conference in Santa Clara, CA. Checkout the schedule and register! [Less]

Dear Spring Community, We are happy to announce the release of Spring Mobile 1.1.0.RC1! Spring Mobile provides extensions to Spring MVC that aid in the development of cross-platform mobile web applications. This release includes the following: ... [More] Firefox OS now detected as mobile device Corrected an issue with redirects and forwards when using LiteDeviceDelegatingViewResolver Additional bug fixes and improvements See the changelog and reference manual for more information. To retrieve the software, download the release distribution, or add the maven artifacts to your project. Sample apps are available to help you get started. If you are building a mobile web app, we encourage you try Spring Mobile 1.1.0.RC1 and collaborate with us on the next iteration of the project. [Less]

Dear Spring Community, We are happy to announce the release of Spring Mobile 1.0.2! Spring Mobile provides extensions to Spring MVC that aid in the development of cross-platform mobile web applications. This release includes the following: ... [More] Firefox OS now detected as mobile device Kindle devices are now detected as tablets Kindle Fire devices are detected as tablet if they are in Silk Desktop mode or Android WebView, and as mobile when in Silk Mobile mode Additional bug fixes and improvements See the changelog and reference manual for more information. To retrieve the software, download the release distribution, or add the maven artifacts to your project. Sample apps are available to help you get started. If you are building a mobile web app, we encourage you try Spring Mobile 1.0.2 and collaborate with us on the next iteration of the project. [Less]

I am pleased to announce the first and final release candidate of the Babbage episode of the Spring Data release train. I consists of the following modules: Spring Data Commons 1.6 RC1 - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - Changelog Spring Data ... [More] JPA 1.4 RC1 - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - Changelog Spring Data MongoDB 1.3 RC1 - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - Changelog Spring Data Neo4j 2.3 RC1 - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - Changelog The release forms a significant milestone towards the GA releases expected around SpringOne this year. We added support for the MongoDB Aggregation Framework and improved the execution of polymorphic queries. On the JPA side of things we introduced support to use SpEL expressions in manually defined queries, improved the handling of entities using @IdClass and now allow to define the Date binding for repository query parameters using @TemporalType. The Neo4j module added support for countBy(…) queries and type safe query execution for repositories. You can find a more detailed list of features at the wiki page summarizing the Babbage content. This release is the perfect time to play with the new features and report back your experiences before we turn it to a GA release in a few weeks. We'd be happy to hear your opinions in the forums or in the bug tracker in case you run into any issues. If you want to learn more about Spring Data or the Spring eco-system in general, the upcoming SpringOne conference in Santa Clara, CA is the perfect time and place to be. Checkout the schedule and register! [Less]

Speaker: Hemant Joshi Learn how Spring and Cucumber integrate to make test automation easier. Cucumber is a framework for Behavior-Driven-Development (BDD), a refinement of TDD (Test-Driven-Development). Its intent is to enable developers to write ... [More] high-level use cases in plain text that can be verified by non-technical stakeholders, and turn them into executable tests, written in a language called Gherkin. Using Spring, Cucumber, WebDriver2, Hemant Joshi will show you how to use Spring & Cucumber to do BDD with elegance and joy. About the speaker Hemant Joshi Hemant currently works at Visa Europe on automation framework technical arhcitect. Spring, Cucumber, Java for Visa worldwide. [Less]

Speakers: Mattias Severson & Johan Haleby, Jayway Inc You've probably heard the buzz about functional programming and you may have glanced at the new Lambda features in Java 8. What is less known is that it's actually possible to leverage some ... [More] of the functional-style techniques even in older Java versions. This means that you can program in a functional style, even if your organization has not updated to Java 8. In this session, you'll learn about real-world experiences with functional frameworks such as LamdaJ, Functional Java and Guava. What should you consider before adopting them? How do they compare against one another? If you are stuck with a legacy Java version and want to be prepared for the functional future of Java 8, make sure to attend this session. About the speakers Mattias Severson, Jayway, Inc With a background in the hardware and embedded area, Mattias has shifted his focus to Java and the enterprise domain. He is a clean code proponent who appreciates Test Driven Development and Agile methodologies. Mattias has experience from many different environments, including everything between big server solutions for multinational companies down to flashing LEDs by using small micro controllers. He is curious, open-minded and believes in continuous improvement on all levels. Johan Haleby, Jayway, Inc Johan Haleby is a Swedish developer, speaker, and writer with a profound interest in software engineering and testability in particular. He has founded and contributed to numerous open source projects such as PowerMock, REST Assured and Awaitility and has spoken at several conferences and user groups such as Öredev and Devoxx. [Less]

Welcome back to another installment of This Week in Spring! As usual, we've got a lot to cover so let's get to it. Don't forget that SpringOne 2GX 2013 early bird expires August 9th, so hurry to secure the discounted rate! Spring framework ... [More] committer Rossen Stoyanchev has a great post on Spring Framework 4.0 M2's support for WebSocket Messaging Architectures. Spring Shell lead Dr. Mark Pollack has announced that Spring Shell 1.0.1.M1 has just been released. Spring Batch 2.2.1.RELEASE is now available. This release is mostly bug fixes and documentation improvements. I don't know if you've been following along, but we're starting to really flesh out the SpringOne2GX 2013 schedule! I'm looking forward to both seeing, and presenting, at many different talks this year. One talk I'd like to see is Thymeleaf: improving your Spring view layer with natural templates. I expect this year will be a very exciting year for a number of reasons, and I hope you'll share the experience with us. We've added some more SpringOne talks recently: Spring and Web Content Management Spring Data Community Lightning Talks Application Security Pitfalls Hadoop - Just the Basics for Big Data Rookies Spring Integration Internals Our pal Tobias Flohre has put together a nice post comparing how the JSR 352 API compares to the Spring Batch. Spring Batch 3.0 will be fully JSR 352 API compliant this fall by SpringOne, but was the inspiration for the JSR in the first place -- Spring Batch 1.0 was released in 2008 and has been gathering steam ever since. Want to learn more about Spring Scala? Watch Spring Scala lead talk about it at ScalaDays New York. As I mentioned last week, you'd do well to also follow This Week in Cloud Foundry, which has a lot of great content following last week's large announcement of a partnership between Pivotal and IBM. The Reactor project lead by John Brisbin has just announced support for a @EnableReactor annotation for Spring Java configuration. ..Speaking of Thymeleaf (the open source, Spring MVC, HTML5 and Tiles-friendly view and templating engine), version 2.1 will have parameterizable fragments. Do you want to test them? Try the 2.1.0-SNAPSHOT version when specifying your Maven repository-compatible coordinates. Check out a webinar next month with Param Rengaiah https://www.springsource.org/node/22645 [Less]

We are pleased to announce that Spring Batch 2.2.1.RELEASE is now available via Maven Central, Github and the SpringSource download repository. This release addresses a number of bugs and documentation updates. Many thanks to all of those who ... [More] submitted the many pull requests that went into this release. Spring Batch Home | Source on GitHub | Reference Documentation We look forward to your feedback in the forum and issue tracker. [Less]

Dear Spring Community, I am pleased to announce the first milestone release Spring Shell 1.1. Spring Shell is an interactive shell that can be easily extended with commands using a Spring based programming model. This release adds support for ... [More] testing of commands as well as several bug fixes and general improvements. Many thanks to to those who submitted pull-requests Downloads | JavaDocs | Reference Documentation | Changelog We look forward to your feedback on the forum or in the issue tracker. [Less]

Hey everyone! Remember that SpringOne 2GX 2013 early bird expires August 9th, so hurry to secure the discounted rate! Also, make sure to check the agenda as new sessions have been added. This week I'm at OSCON talking to developers in the wonderful ... [More] city of Portland, OR about Spring 4, REST and joining my colleagues at Pivotal to talk about Cloud Foundry, big data, and much more! If you'd like to chat, I hope you'll come to the talks that we're putting on and visit us at the Pivotal booth in the exhibition hall! It's been a big week for both Spring and Pivotal: Pivotal HD 1.0, the world's fastest Hadoop distribution, was released in two flavors - Community Edition, and a Pivotal Single Node Edition (VM), a Virtual Machine download. Head over to gopivotal.com and give it a test drive - Community Edition deploys up to a 50 node cluster! We're celebrating Project Reactor's initial milestone release - 1.0.0M1 - which already benchmarked TCP on Netty at 300% faster than Netty alone! When integrated into key Spring technologies, the possibilities of Fast Data are going to blow people's hair back. Congrats to Jon Brisbin! Spring Data Arora Service Release 2 is available for download. Martin Lippert published an excellent blog on Annotations and Java Config support that are available in Spring Tool Suite 3.3.0. Support of JavaConfig as an XML alternative across the Spring ecosystem is nearing a pervasive level. Join Hemant Joshi as he introduces how to use Spring and the Cucumber BDD testing framework in a webinar on July 30th, 2013. Hadoop hungry? Join us for a Webinar series -- “What You Can Do with Hadoop” on the first Thursday of every month. The first webinar on August 1st, 2013 will provide in-depth details about the features and tutorials included in the Pivotal HD Single Node (VM). Register today for the 9 AM PT session Register today for the 7 PM session My buddy Andy Piper (@andypiper) puts together a wonderful roundup of Cloud Foundry called This Week in Cloud Foundry. I can't recommend it enough! He just started, and he's doing a heckuva job! The Zenika blog has a very nice post on how to document a REST API with Swagger, which you can transparently layer on top of your Spring MVC API. Matt Stine also has a great post on Spring, Continuous Integration and CloudFoundry. The JavaCode Geeks blog has a nice post on how to add validation to a REST API The Pivotal blog has a really great post on how Tomcat compares to Pivotal's tcServer, a binary-compatible distribution of Tomcat that we support and augment for deployment Also on the Pivotal blog, a fantastic post on how Spring Data GemFire (and GemFire) can really boost your application's performance! Xavier Padró's has a really nice introduction to messaging with Spring This week at OSCON, I found affixed to all the bulletin boards and on the entry-doors into the conference a notice advertising a hackathon being run by inBloom, which is a nonprofit data and content services company working to support school districts as they implement great personalized learning tools for kids, teachers, and parents. inBloom is sponsoring a 2-day hackathon at OSCON to work on their open source content services. Check out the projects and the code! I really enjoyed meeting these fine people and encourage any Spring ninjas out there to raise your hands and contribute! [Less]