Join the technical experts behind VMforce, the first enterprise cloud for Java developers, for a new technical webinar focusing on the basics of Cloud Computing for Java Developers. The webinar covers

• Application Lifecycle – On premise & cloud-based development, testing and deployment
• Persistence – Force.com as a database
• Services in the Cloud – User Management, Security/Access Control, Search, Reporting and more

The webinar will be held on Thursday, September 9 for audiences in Europe and North America. This webinar builds on the information presented in the Spring for Force.com Developers webinar recorded last week. An archive for the presentation is now available (slides, code, video).

The SpringOne 2GX 2010 conference has over 100 deep technical sessions for both Spring and Groovy & Grails. With all the great conference sessions from the core contributors to Spring, Groovy, Grails, and Tomcat, you can see why this has become the most important Java event of 2010. If you want to build applications that are portable from the desktop to the data center and into the cloud then this conference is for you.

Sign up by September 3 and save $200. Register now!

Today at VMworld 2010, VMware announced the new vFabric cloud application platform. vFabric comprises the developer tools and frameworks that are so familiar to the Spring community combined with application platform services like elastic application runtime, cloud messaging, and data grid capabilities from existing SpringSource products. Rod Johnson explains the strategy and gives some technical details behind vFabric in his recent blog post. Community members interested in the learning more can register for the upcoming webinar on September 29th: Americas 10am PDT | Europe 2pm BST.

Thinking of taking a Class from SpringSource University? If you are, we still have seats available for our September classes. Look below to find a class near you:

North & South America:

• Brazil: Recife - Core Spring Framework
  
• Brazil: Rio de Janeiro - Core Spring Framework
  
• Canada: Ottawa - Enterprise Integration with Spring
  
• Canada: Montreal - Enterprise Integration with Spring
  
• Canada: Toronto - Enterprise Integration with Spring
  
• Boston, MA: Core Spring Framework
• Chicago, IL: Core Spring Framework Note: 2 students will win a ticket to SpringOne in Chicago at this class!
• Los Angeles, CA: Core Spring Framework
  
• New York, NY: Core Spring Framework and Core Spring.NET
  
• Philadelphia, PA: Hibernate with Spring and Enterprise Integration with Spring
  
• Portland, OR: Core Spring Framework
  
• San Francisco, CA: Core Spring Framework, Groovy & Grails and Rich Web Apps with Spring Note: Rod Johnson speaking and holding a Q&A at the Core Spring Class!

Asia Pacific:

• Australia: Sydney - Hibernate with Spring
  
• India: Bangalore - Core Spring Framework
  
• India: New Delhi - Core Spring Framework
  

No training near you? Check out our full schedule

Great news for everyone interested in advanced, scalable, enterprise and cloud messaging! The RabbitMQ team has just released a brand new version, RabbitMQ 2.0, of their popular messaging server. The release includes an all new scalable storage engine, native support for multi-protocol messaging, improvements to plugin distribution and much more.

Download | Documentation | Release Notes | Blog

Spring Community members can use the new Spring AMQP project for both Java and .NET connectivity to RabbitMQ. RabbitMQ and Spring AMQP will be among the incredible technical content featured at SpringOne 2GX 2010 in Chicago, October 19th-21st. Be sure to register now to lock in an early registration discount.

Become an expert in Spring now, learn from the creators of Spring and become officialy certified in Spring! Our professional training teaches you to become an expert in, Spring 3.0 - Spring AOP - Spring IOC - Spring JavaConfig - Spring JDBC - Spring MVC - Spring Security - SpringSource Tool Suite and more.

For all trainings in EMEA we have a special offer available if you register now:

• Register before September 04, 2010: Receive a 15% discount - use the referral code springup2 during the registration process*
• Volume Discount: Register with 2 people (10% discount on the total price). Register with 3 or more (20%). Discount will be applied automatically after registration*

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We're pleased to announce the availability of Spring Roo 1.1.0.M3. Spring Roo is a lightweight developer tool that makes it fast and easy to deliver instant results for Java developers. This new release includes more than 150 enhancements since Roo 1.1.0.M2, including:

• Incremental database reverse engineering (DBRE) support
• Latest Google Web Toolkit 2.1.0.M3 features
• Automatic JSON support, including in Spring MVC applications
• 16 social media embedding features
• Library upgrades
• Automatic Roo annotation JAR upgrades
• Usability enhancements

Please review our detailed blog entry to read more about this new release. You can also download Spring Roo, read the reference guide, or follow @SpringRoo on Twitter to learn more.

We hope you enjoy this new release.

Arjen Poutsma has just announced that Spring 3.0.4 is now available. This release addresses over 80 minor issues and updates Spring's support for some recent third-party releases including Hibernate Core 3.6, Hibernate Validator 4.1, EclipseLink 2.1, and EHCache 2.2.

Download | Documentation | Javadoc API | Change Log | JIRA

All the latest features for Spring as well as advanced technical sessions and roadmap discussion will be happening at SpringOne 2GX 2010 in Chicago, October 19th-21st. Be sure to register now to lock in an early registration discount.

Don't forget that Spring users can ask questions in the community forum and identify issues in JIRA as well.

Grails 1.3.4 has been released and contains numerous bugfixes and small improvements. Please see the changelog for a list of issues which have been addressed.

Download | Changelog | Documentation | Forum

Be sure to ask questions in the new Grails forum. Also, the Groovy and Grails sessions for SpringOne 2GX 2010 have been added to the conference schedule, so be sure to register now for early discounts.

SpringSource University has got some amazing news!

Rod Johnson will be at the September 7th Core Spring Class in San Francisco!

Yes, you read that right. He'll be talking about Spring, where it's going and let you in on some things you'll be really excited about.

After he's done, you'll get a chance to ask him your most burning question in a Q & A session.

The class is on September 7-10 in San Francisco and Rod will be dropping in on one of those days.

So do not miss this great opportunity! Click the link below to register:

Yes, I want to Meet Rod Johnson!

Or, you can send an email to springsourceuniversity@vmware.com and we'll get you signed up.

But don't wait, class size will be limited.

Oh...and this is just one of the exciting "celebrity" appearances planned at SpringSource University. To keep updated with the latest, you can now follow us on Twitter!