Are you building new, powerful and innovative solutions using Spring? By using Spring in your project are you pushing the limits of the specifications and standards? Has Spring helped you solve difficult technical problems that were impeding your delivery of mission critical applications? Do you want to share your successes with other developers and architects using Spring?

The community wants to know about your success story with Spring. Write up a short description covering your Spring usage and submit it to us using this form. Each month we will publish the best stories here on springsource.org. All published stories will earn their author a free pass to the SpringOne conference in their region (Americas-Europe).

On Tuesday November 27th, join Apache experts and committers Mark Thomas and Filip Hanik as they outline the top tips and tricks to make management and administration of Apache Tomcat easier, faster and more productive. This webinar will cover:

• Setting up your Apache Tomcat infrastructure for large scale deployments
• How to upgrade and easily rollback different Apache Tomcat and JVM versions
• How to migrate your Apache Tomcat configurations during upgrades
• Apache Tomcat connector configurations
• Best practices around virtual host configurations in Apache Tomcat
• Undocumented configurations options

This webinar is offered at two different times: 3pm CET for developers in Europe and 1pm EDT for developers in North America.

Dear Spring Community,
We are pleased to announce that Spring Integration 1.0.0.RC2 is now available.
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For more information, please check out the announcement within the Spring Integration Forum, and be sure to visit the Spring Integration Home.

Mark Fisher
Spring Integration Lead

Following the success of last year, the Spring Exchange will return to London on the 29th of January. The Spring Exchange will feature lots of big names in Spring including SpringSource CEO Rod Johnson, SpringSource CTO Adrian Colyer and many more. The program for this day will be:

• Rod Johnson will provide the keynote on the Spring Portfolio.
• Adrian Colyer, SpringSource CTO and Project Lead Rob Harrop, will provide an introduction to dm Server.
• Spring Batch expert, Dave Syer will present on scaling batch applications in the enterprise.
• A TBC Spring-expert will provide a preview on what's new in the Spring Framework 3.0
• Adrian Colyer and Rob Harrop, will provide insights into Tomcat in Enterprise.

Registration for the event is possible now at an early bird discount price of £ 65.00 (instead of the normal price of £ 95.00). Make sure to register as soon as possible since there are only 250 spots available.

SpringSource announced today that it has acquired G2One Inc., the company behind the popular Groovy and Grails technologies.

• Groovy is an open source dynamic language for the Java Virtual Machine, that offers a flexible Java-like syntax all Java developers can learn easily. Many organizations have adopted Groovy as an abstraction layer for defining business rules using Domain Specific Languages.
• Grails is an open source advanced and innovative web application framework based on Groovy, and built on proven and high performance open source platforms such as Spring, Hibernate, SiteMesh, Quartz, and Ajax libraries. Grails allows developers to use agile methodologies and principles like convention over configuration to rapidly build quality applications.

There is a FAQ covering the acquisition as well as blog posts by Rod Johnson, Graeme Rocher (Grails project lead) and Guillaume Laforge (Groovy project lead). Both Grails and Groovy have great synergies with Spring and I know that the Spring community will extend a warm welcome to Grails and Groovy users.

We are pleased to announce that Spring for .NET 1.2.0 is now available.

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This release contains the following new major features:

• WCF integration - Configure WCF services using dependency injection. Apply AOP advice to WCF services.
• MSMQ integration - MSMQ helper classes to increase your productivity developing messaging applications. Provides integration with Spring's transaction management features.
• Apache ActiveMQ integration - Helper classes to increase your productivity developing messaging applications with ActiveMQ/NMS
• Quartz integration - Configure Quartz jobs, schedulers, triggers using dependency injection. Convenience classes for implementing Quartz Jobs.
• AOP- New inheritance based AOP proxy generation
• NHibernate 2.0.1 support.

This release includes approximately 100 bug fixes and enhancements since the 1.1.2 release.

Please refer to the changelog for additional details.

Enjoy!

SpringSource is proud to present the Spring Day in Copenhagen. The session will be held at the Copenhagen Marriott Hotel on the 24th of November and will start at 13.30 PM. During this SpringSource Seminar:

• Alef Arendsen, co-founder of Spring, will teach attendees the whereabouts of the Spring Portfolio as well as how to profit from the key benefits that the new SpringSource dm Server grants.

The session will end at 18:00 PM with a social get-together and free drink with Alef Arendsen.

Registration for this SpringSource Seminar is now possible, tickets are available for € 75,-. However attendence is free for everybody who registers for the Core Spring bootcamp on the 25th of November in Copenhagen.

Register now for the Core Spring Course and/or the Spring Day Copenhagen

Dear Spring Community,
We are pleased to announce that Spring JavaConfig 1.0.0.M4 is now available.
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Major Highlights

• @AnnotationDrivenTx - support for declarative transaction management
• @AnnotationDrivenConfig - support for @Autowired, @Resource, et al.
• @ComponentScan - scan for @Component classes directly from JavaConfig
• @AspectJAutoProxy - first-class support for @Aspect beans
• @MBeanExport - first class support for exporting JMX MBeans
• Complete PetClinic sample now available with distribution demonstrating use of JavaConfig
• Improved support for externalized values with @ExternalValue and @PropertiesValueSource
• @ImportXml - bootstrap Spring XML bean definitions from JavaConfig
• Improved error handling
• ... and dozens of other resolved issues

Please give this milestone a test drive, and provide your feedback through the Spring JavaConfig Forum or Issue Tracker. For more information, visit the Spring JavaConfig Home.

Chris Beams
Spring JavaConfig Lead

Dear Spring Batch community,
We are pleased to announce that Spring Batch 1.1.3.RELEASE-A has been released!

Downloads | Reference Guide | Web Site | Changelog

We are pleased to announce that Spring 2.5.6 has been released.

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This release primarily fixes some bugs and also adds some new features:

• Over 100 resolved issues
• Updates to match up with latest version of some third party libraries, for example:
  • AspectJ 1.6.2
  • OpenJPA 1.1.0
  • EclipseLink 1.0.1
• Revised OSGi manifest headers

Please refer to the changelog for additional details.

Enjoy!