Newsletter - February 2011, EMEA

ISSUE 28, February 2011

Spring 3.1.0 M1 has been Released

The first milestone of Spring 3.1 is now available from our Maven repository or for direct download from our community download page. This release includes new features such as Bean definition profiles, enhancements to Java-based container configuration, caching abstraction, new c: XML namespace, and improvements to Spring MVC.

Learn more about these foundational 3.1 M1 facilities, Spring’s new caching abstraction and Servlet 3.0 support during Juergen Hoeller’s recent webinar ‘Introducing Spring Framework 3.1’. Also check out Chris Beams’ blog postings about Bean definition profiles, the @Profile annotation and the unified property management capabilities of the environment abstraction. And don't miss Chris's SpringOne 2GX 2010 Tech Talk on ‘Configuration Enhancements in Spring 3.1’.

RabbitMQ 2.3.1 is Released

The RabbitMQ team is pleased to announce the release of RabbitMQ 2.3.1—perfectly timed for the start of the year of the Rabbit. This release fixes a number of bugs and introduces some enhancements, including streaming publish confirmations, new plugin mechanisms for authentication and authorization and more, which you will find in the release notes.

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Spring GemFire 1.0.0 project now available for both
Java and .NET!

The Spring GemFire project is designed to make it easier to build Spring-powered highly scalable applications using vFabric GemFire as a distributed data management platform. Through Spring GemFire, Spring users should feel right at home interacting with GemFire while developers familiar with GemFire will see the benefits and flexibility of the Spring container, its powerful AOP integration, and versatile service abstractions. Spring GemFire for both Java and .Net available for immediate download.

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Spring BlazeDS Integration 1.5.0.M2 Released

We are pleased to announce that the 1.5.0.M2 milestone release of Spring BlazeDS Integration, the open source solution for building Spring-powered RIAs with Adobe Flex, is now available. Highlights include support for reading and writing AMF content with RESTful Spring MVC @Controllers, refactoring of the Spring Security 3 support, evolution of Hibernate serialization support, easier customization and namespace-supported configuration, upgraded compatibility with Spring Integration 2.0.x, complete revision of the Maven-based Test Drive samples.

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Spring Security 3.1.0.RC1 Released

We are pleased to announce the first release candidate for Spring Security 3.1. Please see the Changelog for a full list of updates since the M2 release. This release is available from the Spring Community Downloads area and also from the SpringSource maven repository.

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Spring Android 1.0.0.M2 Released

We are pleased to announce that the second milestone release of the Spring Android project is now available! This release supports usage of the Spring Framework in an Android environment. The 1.0.0.M2 release focuses on extending the use of RestTemplate in native Android applications. For more details on utilizing the Spring Android Rest Template and Spring Android Commons Logging libraries, take a look at Roy Clarkson’s Spring Android and Maven ‘Part 1’ and ‘Part 2’ postings.

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Spring Data JPA 1.0.0.M1 Released

We are pleased to announce that the first milestone release of the Spring Data JPA project is now available! This release includes, Merge of the Hades open-source library into Spring Data, Sophisticated support to build repositories based on Spring and JPA, Transparent auditing of domain class, Pagination support, dynamic query execution, ability to integrate custom data access code. In his recent blog posting, ‘Getting started with Spring Data JPA’, Oliver Gierke provides a quick introduction to the Spring Data JPA project features, a sample project reference, and a link to a step-by-step guide for refactoring steps on Github.

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Spring Mobile 1.0.0.M3 has been Released

We are pleased to announce the third milestone release of the Spring Mobile Project which provides extensions to Spring MVC aiding in the development of cross-platform mobile web applications. The 1.0.0M3 release ships a general facility for user site preference management that can be used independently or in conjunction with the mobile site switcher. See the Changelog and reference manual for all the info.

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Spring Data Key Value (Redis+Riak) 1.0.0.M2 Released

We are pleased to announce the second milestone release of the Spring Data Key Value 1.0 project, with support for Redis and Riak. This release introduces several new features for both Redis and Riak, such as Redis Pubsub support, Redis JSON and Spring Object/XML mapping serializers, Redis support for upcoming Redis 2.2, Redis Sorting and Pipelining functionality, Riak Asynchronous Riak Template, and Riak Dedicated Groovy DSL for asynchronous Riak access.

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Green Beans Series:
Getting Started with Enterprise Messaging and Spring

The latest installation of Green Beans, with Josh Long, introduces the core concepts of messaging, as well as the support that the Spring framework provides for message creation and consumption. The blog explains all the details for both JMS and AMQP style messaging and includes sample code so that it is easy to follow along with your own application development.

InfoQ Video Introducing Apache Tomcat is now Available

View recently added InfoQ Tech Talk Introducing Apache Tomcat from SpringOne 2GX featuring Mark Thomas, covering the newest features that are available in Apache Tomcat 7 including Servlet 3.0 features, JSP 2.2 features, EL 2.2, and other changes that impact performance.