Newsletter - April 2011, US

ISSUE 30, April 2011

Cloud Foundry, a new open Platform as a Service

VMware just announced Cloud Foundry, which breaks new ground in PaaS by supporting a choice of programming models, a choice of services from VMware and third parties, a choice of clouds for deployment, and availability in open source. Rod Johnson explains all the details and there are tons of Spring and Grails examples already available. Be sure to visit cloudfoundry.com for all the details and instructions on how to get started.

SpringSource Tool Suite 2.6.0 Released

We are pleased to announce the new release 2.6.0 of the SpringSource Tool Suite with highlights including all 2.6.2.SR1 updates, Roo Plug-in Manager, content Assist, Quick Fixes and Refactorings for @Autowired, @Qualifier, @RequestMapping, a new graphical editor for Spring Web Flow and a lot of new features and performance improvements for Groovy + Grails tooling.

Download | New & Noteworthy | Installation Instructions

Spring Data JDBC Extensions with Oracle Database Support 1.0.0.M1 Released

We are pleased to announce that the first milestone release of the Spring Data JDBC Extensions 1.0 project with Oracle Database support is now available, providing additional support for vendor specific JDBC extensions.

Downloads | Reference Documentation | Changelog

RabbitMQ 2.4 is Now Available

The RabbitMQ team announces the latest release, RabbitMQ 2.4, fixing a number of bugs and introducing some enhancements, including fast routing for topic exchanges, sender-selected distribution and server-side consumer cancellation notifications. Take a read of Helena Edelson’s review of RabbitMQ topologies for performance and scalability.

Download | Documentation | Release Notes | Discussion List

Spring AMQP 1.0 Release Candidate 1

We are pleased to announce that Spring AMQP 1.0 for Java RC1 is now available for download. The JARs are available in the SpringSource Milestone Maven repository. Other resources including Java and .NET downloads, reference manual, API documentation, issue tracking and Changelog are available on the Spring AMQP Homepage. Please try it out as we would like to get as much feedback as possible to help drive toward GA.

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Spring Data Graph – Neo4j Support 1.0.0.M5 Released

We are pleased to announce that new milestone releases of the Spring Data Graph 1.0 project with Neo4j support are now available, the new version including many new features and tracking the latest version of Neo4j, itself. Neo4j is one of the many new specialized datastores available to developers today. Neo4j models data as relationships and nodes. For developers interested in learning more be sure to register for the April 20th webinar: Europe, North America.

Downloads | JavaDocs | Reference Documentation | Changelog

Live Webcast: Data Access for Modern Applications

Is Data Management a Key Topic for your Organization? To realize the full promise of cloud, you need a new approach to data management that supports the needs of applications deployed across elastic, highly scalable, geographically distributed architectures. Is data management a key topic for your organization? Join VMware for this webcast where we will discuss overcoming performance bottlenecks into how other organizations are managing data for their modern applications.

April 21, 1:00pm EST / 10:00am PST - Register Here

Spring Data JPA 1.0.0.M2 Released

The second milestone release of the Spring Data JPA project is now available. This release includes support for Querydsl predicates, validation of @Query annotated queries at bootstrap time, support for XML-based entity mapping, support for Distinct, In and NotIn keywords in query methods, ported Hades extensions into spring Data Commons core and various bugfixes.

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Spring Data Key Value (Redis + Riak) 1.0.0.M3 Released

We are pleased to announce the third milestone release of the Spring Data Key Value 1.0 project, with support for Redis and Riak, is now available, introducing several new features for Redis.

Downloads | JavaDocs | Reference Documentation | Changelog

Extending Spring Social’s Service Provider Framework

Read Craig Walls latest blog post showing you how to extend the service provider framework to handle connections to providers that aren’t directly supported by Spring Social, in this case, he shares an example integration with the Netflix API.

New SpringOne 2GX Tech Talks now available

Three new tech talks available for review including: Mastering Spring MVC 3 with Keith Donald who provides all the details necessary for Mastering Spring MVC 3; Using Spring with NoSQL Databases with Chris Richardson and Mark Pollack on how to use NoSQL databases with Spring and; Concurrent and Distributed Applications with Spring, by Dave Syer and Mark Fisher, discussing how to use Spring to develop concurrent and distributed applications.

Quick Survey: Virgo and SpringSource dm Server Usage

We would be grateful if users of Virgo and SpringSource dm Server would take a short, anonymous survey to help us in our planning. Should take no more than 2 minutes to complete.

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