Newsletter - September 2010, US

ISSUE 23, September 2010

VMware vFabric Cloud Application Platform

At VMworld 2010, VMware announced the new vFabric cloud application platform. vFabric comprises the developer tools and frameworks that are 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.

Webinar:
Register now for the upcoming webinar The New Era of IT: The VMware Cloud Application Platform to learn more.

Spring 3.0.4 Released

Spring 3.0.4 is now available for download. The 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.

Announcement | Download | Documentation

Google & salesforce.com Added to SpringOne 2GX

We're excited to announce that Google and salesforce.com will be presenting unique one-day tracks at SpringOne 2GX.

Google sessions will cover development with Google Web Toolkit, Google App Engine for Businesses and optimizing cloud apps for speed.
salesforce.com sessions will dive into the Force.com cloud platform and how to build Spring apps on VMforce.

It's not too late to register. With over 100 deep technical sessions in three days, SpringOne 2GX is the premier Java developer conference of 2010.

Last Chance: SpringOne 2GX, Chicago, October 19 - 22: Register Now!

Nominations for 1st Annual Springy Awards Now Open

The 1st Annual Springy Awards are here! It’s time to celebrate the best and brightest in Java development and innovation. We want to hear about your recent successes and most innovative products built using Spring or Groovy & Grails technologies. Categories include Best Web Application, Best Enterprise Application, Most Innovative Product or Open Source Project, and Community Champion.

Learn More & Nominate Your Product Now

Webinar: Data Access for Modern Apps: Speed, Scalability & Savings

How do you provide users with lightning-fast access to vast amounts of data? Attend this informative webinar to learn how vFabric GemFire delivers:

Dramatic gains in speed and performance without sacrificing reliability
Faster and easier development of data-intensive apps
Dynamic, non-disruptive up/down scalability for apps deployed in public or private clouds
Lower database license cost

October 14, 1:00 pm ET / 10:00 am PT - Register Here

RabbitMQ 2.0 Released

The RabbitMQ team recently released RabbitMQ 2.0 of their popular enterprise, cloud messaging server. The release includes an all new scalable storage engine, native support for multi-protocol messaging, improvements to plug-in distribution and much more.

Announcement | Download | Blog

Hyperic 4.5 Beta Now Available

Hyperic 4.5 Beta 1 is now available for download. Hyperic 4.5 uses the Spring Framework and tc Server. It also features support for monitoring of RabbitMQ.

Some of the features of Hyperic include:

Unparalleled visibility: 50,000 performance metrics across 75 app technologies
Auto-discovery and auto-configuration
vSphere integration for accurate, continually updated VM inventory

Additionally, we're excited to announce that Hyperic won an InfoWorld BOSSIE for best open source monitoring tool. Read about our award & download 4.5 Beta today!

Download: Hyperic 4.5 Beta Open Source | Hyperic 4.5 Beta Enterprise

Spring Roo 1.1.0.M3 Released

Spring Roo 1.1.0.M3 is now available for download. 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.

Announcement | Blog | Download

Grails adds GORM for Redis

One of the major movements inspired by the rise of the cloud platform is the growing interest in alternative storage techniques to traditional relational databases. One such storage mechanism is Redis, a high performance key / value store that is playing an important part in future cloud infrastructure. Graeme Rocher recently announced the availability of GORM for Redis Milestone 1.

Blog | Documentation | Sample Application | Forum

IN THIS ISSUE

Spring 3.0.4 Released

Google & salesforce.com Sponsor SpringOne 2GX

Nominations for 1st Annual Springy Awards

Webinar: Data Access for Modern Apps

RabbitMQ 2.0 Released

Hyperic 4.5 Beta Released

Spring Roo 1.1.0.M3 Released

Grails adds GORM to Redis

LASTEST SOFTWARE RELEASES

Spring 3.0.4

RabbitMQ 2.0