Newsletter - January 2011, EMEA

ISSUE 27, January 2011

SpringSource Tool Suite release 2.5.2 includes support for Spring Roo 1.1.1

SpringSource Tool Suite 2.5.2 Released<

We are pleased to announce the release of the SpringSource Tool Suite (STS) 2.5.2. Highlights of this latest release include support for Spring Roo 1.1.1.RELEASE, easy creation of new vFabric tc Server instances, improved graphical Spring Web Flow editor, Agent-based reloading (experimental), a large number of improvements to the Spring and Groovy/Grails tooling and integration of Spring User Agent Analysis (UAA). Read more details in the New and Noteworthy document.

Download | Noteworthy | Instructions | Forum

Spring Roo 1.1.1 Released

We are delighted to announce the general availability of Spring Roo 1.1.1, the rapid application development tool for Java developers, allowing you create Java applications in just minutes. The 250 fixes and enhances include performance improvements doubling Roo’s speed since 1.1.0, improved cloud database support for VMforce and Google App Engine, significant Google Web Toolkit (GWT) enhancements, including GWT 2.1.1 support, new add-on search and ranking features, and simplified development of complex add-ons. Read more about this latest release in Ben Alex’s blog.

Download | Reference | Blog

Spring Web Services 2.0.0 Released

We are excited to announce that Spring Web Services 2.0.0.RELEASE is now available! This is the first GA release in the 2.0 release cycle. New features include support for Java 5+ and Spring 3.0, improved @Endpoint programming model, new integration testing module and numerous other features. Arjen Poutsma’s blog covers all of the details.

Download | Documentation | Changelog | Forum

Green Beans Series: Getting Started with Spring MVC

Don’t miss the latest installation of the Green Bean Series including Colin Sampaleanu’s recent blog posting about how, assuming familiarity with Java, Spring (basic dependency injection concepts) and the basic Servlet programming model, you can easily create a functional Spring MVC application. After reading Colin’s blog entry, learn more about Spring MVC by looking at Keith Donald’s Spring MVC 3 Showcase. Other interesting Green Beans include Spring in your Service Tier and Spring and Maven Together by Josh Long.

Spring Insight Video

Take a look at the ‘Using Spring Insight with Grails’ video to learn how to profile your Grails application with the Spring Insight feature of tc Server Developer Edition (included as part of STS)—it’s easier than you might think!

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Spring Social 1.0.0.M1 Released

An extension of the Spring Framework, Spring Social enables the development of social-ready applications. With Spring Social you can create applications that interact with various social networking sites such as Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, and Tripit, giving the users of your application a more personal experience.

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Spring Data Graph –
Neo4j Support 1.0.0.M1 Released

We are pleased to announce that the very first milestone release of the Spring Data Graph 1.0 project with Neo4j support is now available! The primary goal of Spring Data is to make it easier to build Spring-powered applications that use new data access technologies such as non-relational databases, map-reduce frameworks, and cloud based data services.

Downloads | Reference Documentation | Changelog

InfoQ videos for Spring Roo, Spring Security 3 & 3.1 and Spring Integration 2.0 now Available

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Spring Security 3 and 3.1

View recently added InfoQ Tech Talks from SpringOne 2GX including ‘Introduction to Spring Roo’ featuring Rod Johnson and Stefan Schmidt covering how to build a sample application with Spring Roo and SpringSource Tool Suite, ‘Introduction to Spring Security 3 & 3.1’ featuring Mike Wiesner who gives a hands-on introduction to Spring Security describing the basic capabilities of Spring Security 3 as well as the new features in 3.1, and Mark Fisher and Oleg Zhurakousky presenting on What's New in Spring Integration 2.0.

Spring and Social Coding

The rise of social coding platforms like Github, Gitorious, Bitbucket, and Launchpad are making it easier to share changes and foster empowered software development communities--Github being the most popular with over one million hosted projects. In his blog entry, Keith Donald shares a new contribution model that empowers you to contribute to your favorite Spring projects and work directly with the core development team. And in his blog entry, Dave Syer discusses how flexible and forgiving Git is for trying out the code without impacting existing users.

Spring Android and Maven

Take a look at Roy Clarkson’s blog entry regarding the recent M1 release of Spring Android and the questions around how to build an Android application utilizing the Spring Android Rest Template and Spring Android Commons Logging libraries. In his post he will walk through the process of using the Android command line tools, Maven, the Maven Android Plugin, and Android Maven artifacts to compile a sample application.

Live Webinar: Introducing Spring Framework 3.1

Spring Framework 3.1 continues Spring's mission with a focus on flexible Java-based configuration. This webinar introduces foundational 3.1 M1 facilities such as environment profiles for application contexts, feature specifications within configuration classes, and Spring’s new caching abstraction. Finally, we’ll cover Spring’s ongoing support for enterprise Java specifications: in particular our Servlet 3.0 support, as scheduled for 3.1 M2.

North America: February 10, 1:00pm EST / 10:00am PST Register Here
Europe: February 10, 3:00pm UK / 4:00pm Europe Register Here

vFabric Hyperic on YouTube

Want to see demos of vFabric Hyperic application performance monitoring? Check out our revamped Hyperic YouTube channel with nearly a dozen product demos covering different user type and use cases.

Special Onsite Training Offer

Looking for in-depth Spring, Tomcat, or Groovy & Grails training but no time to leave the office? Let us bring the class to you. For a limited time, VMware is offering a 10% discount off list price for onsite training if purchased by March 31*. Class can be scheduled any time in 2011 (US and Canada only, based on availability). SpringSource University, a division of VMware, offers expert training on Spring, Apache, Tomcat, Groovy and Grails. Our training programs are designed by the core committers and people who build and manage these technologies, thereby ensuring the highest quality, latest technology and practical real world experience.

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