Newsletter - July 2011, US

  SpringSource Newsletter SpringSource, a division of VMware

ISSUE 33, July 2011

 
   
 
Spring 3.1.0 M2 Released Spring 3.1.0 M2 Released

The second and final milestone of Spring 3.1 is now available from our http://maven.springframework.org/milestone Maven repository or, for direct download, from our community download page. This release includes new features including:

  • Code equivalents for Spring's XML namespaces
  • Builder-style APIs for code-based hibernate configuration
  • TestContext framework support for @Configuration classes and bean definition profiles

The details of the release are covered in the latest blog posts: Spring MVC Enhancements, Configuration Enhancements, Testing with @Configuration Classes and Profiles.

Download | Documentation | Javadoc API | Change Log | JIRA


 

 
   
 

VMware vFabric 5 Enhances Virtualized Java and Spring
 
vFabric 5
On June 14th Rod Johnson announced version 5 of the VMware vFabric application platform in his blog. vFabric 5 is the latest version of VMware's integrated application platform for virtual and cloud environments, and features a number of advances:

  • Elastic Memory for Java (EM4J) — Java heap memory management
  • Spring Insight Operations — production Spring application performance monitoring
  • SQLFire — elastic in-memory SQL data management
  • RabbitMQ — lightweight messaging

Download | Demo | Quick Start | Rod Johnson Blog

SpringOne 2GX 2011 Registration Now Open
 
SpringOne 2GX 2011 Save the date: October 25–28 2011. SpringOne 2GX returns to Chicago to provide over one hundred sessions for application developers, solution architects, web operations and IT teams who develop business applications, create multi-device aware web applications, design cloud architectures, and manage high performance infrastructure. The sessions are specifically tailored for you, the developers who use Spring technologies, Groovy & Grails, and Tomcat. Register now to lock in the early discounts.

SpringSource Tool Suite 2.7.0 Released
 
SpringSource Tool Suite
We are pleased to announce the release 2.7.0 of the SpringSource Tool Suite (STS). This release ships on top of Eclipse Indigo, includes Myln 3.6 and EGit 1.0, support for Grails 1.4.M1 and Gradle. Visit this link for a full list.

Download | New & Noteworthy | Installation

Spring Roo Roadmap Survey
 
Survey The Spring Roo team is putting together a feature road-map and we want your input! Please complete our 60 second survey.

Software Release Summary
 
Release Digest
We are pleased to announce the following software releases are available:

Now available — vFabric SQLFire beta, try it today!
 
vFabric SQLFire Beta
VMware vFabric SQLFire is the database with memory speed, horizontal scalability and a familiar SQL interface. You can access SQLFire using JDBC from Java applications and use existing code to talk to SQLFire in the language you already know. Learn more about SQLFire in an upcoming Live Webcast on July 19, 9:00am PDT. Register Now. Key features of SQLFire include:

  • Higher throughput and lower latency than traditional databases
  • Dynamic, linear scalability
  • Shared-nothing persistence
  • Parallel, data-aware stored procedures

SQLFire Beta Download | Quick Start Guide | Documentation | SQLFire Webcast

RabbitMQ 2.5.0 Released
 
RabbitMQ
The RabbitMQ team is delighted to announce the release of RabbitMQ 2.5.0. This release fixes a number of bugs and new features including:

  • tracing facility for debugging incoming and outgoing messages
  • improved inbound network performance
  • improve routing performance
  • new rabbitmqctl commands

Download | Documentation | Get Started | Release Notes

Cloud Foundry: Now Supporting Scala
 
Cloud Foundry
We recently announced Cloud Foundry support for Scala and a variety of associated frameworks. Most Scala applications written to Lift and Spring will deploy seamlessly without modification to Cloud Foundry. Since Scala is a JVM-based language, you can write applications with any Java web framework or use a framework explicitly designed for Scala such as Lift. Cloud Foundry can now deploy such applications—this support is multi-faceted.

Sign up for Cloud Foundry | Scala & Lift Support

Live Webinar: Tuning your Grails applications
 
Live Webinar
Grails is focused on developer productivity more than raw speed, but that doesn't mean it's a slouch. When you do need better response times, there are plenty of options available—as this talk will demonstrate. Find out both how to isolate performance issues and what you can do to fix them. This is a large and complex area, so the focus will be on Grails-specific solutions.

North America: July 13, 1:00pm EST / 10:00am PST
Register Here

Europe: July 13, 3:00pm UK / 4:00pm Europe
Register Here

Live Webcast: Application Modernization in Practice — How NewEdge Revolutionized Their Brokerage Operations with VMware vFabric
 
VMware Webcast
The pressure to deliver real-time, highly-scalable applications is more intense than ever before. Businesses are under increasing pressure to build faster applications and to build them quickly. Join IDC analyst Maureen Fleming and NewEdge Data Architect Mike Benillouche as they share their real-world experiences in addressing the need to modernize custom business applications and infrastructure. See how NewEdge and other leading firms are taking strategic advantage of modern, high-performance data and application requirements.

Attend this webcast and learn:

  • Why traditional approaches to middleware can't support today's modern applications
  • How a cloud application platform can help you deliver applications in weeks instead of months or years
  • When it's time to rethink your approach to data

Thursday, July 28, 9:00AM (PDT) Register Here

 
IN THIS ISSUE
  Spring 3.1.0 M2 Released

VMware vFabric 5 Enhances Virtualized Java and Spring

SpringOne 2GX 2011 Registration Now Open

SpringSource Tool Suite 2.7.0.M2 Released

Spring Roo Roadmap Survey

Software Release Summary

vFabric SQLFire beta & SQLFire Live Webcast

RabbitMQ 2.5.0 Released

Cloud Foundry: Now Supporting Scala

Live Webinar: Tuning your Grails applications

Live Webcast: Application Modernization in Practice — How NewEdge Revolutionized Their Brokerage Operations with VMware vFabric
 

 
LASTEST SOFTWARE RELEASES
  Spring 3.1.0 M2 Released

VMware vFabric 5 Enhances Virtualized Java and Spring

SpringSource ToolSuite 2.7.0 Released

RabbitMQ 2.5.0 Released

Spring Social 1.0.0.RC1

Spring BlazeDS Integration 1.5.0 GA

Spring Data Document with MongoDB Support 1.0.0.M3

Spring Data Graph 1.0.0.M1 with Neo4j Support

Eclipse Virgo 3.0.0 Milestone 5

Eclipse Virgo IDE 1.0.0.M01

Spring AMQP for Java 1.0 RC2
 

 
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Web Applications at Cloud Scale

The New Era of IT: the VMware Cloud Application Platform

Data Access for Modern Apps: Speed, Scalability, and Savings

What's new with Groovy & Grails Tooling in the SpringSource Tool Suite?

Rabbit MQ: Messaging That Just Works

Message-Driven Architecture with Spring
 

 
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