Newsletter - September 2012, EMEA

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September 2012 – Issue 47
   
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Spring Framework 3.2 M2 Released
The second milestone release toward Spring Framework 3.2 is now available from the SpringSource repository. If you're not already familiar, see our quick tutorial on resolving these artifacts via Maven. The complete distribution zip is available as usual from the SpringSource community download site. Be sure to catch up on the changes in 3.2 M1 if you haven't already.

Highlights from 3.2 M2 include:
  • Asynchronous @Controller method support now complete (blog post)
  • Many additional Spring MVC improvements, including plenty of REST support, e.g. content negotiation.
  • Spring TestContext improvements
  • Spring Expression Language (SpEL) improvements and fixes
  • Overall, 45 bugs fixed, 11 new features and 58 improvements implemented.
A major area of focus for 3.2 is ensuring that Spring Framework runs flawlessly on JDK7. M2 artifacts have been built, tested and published against JDK7 and we continue to test JDK6 compatibility in nightly builds as well. We encourage all Spring users on JDK7 to give M2 a spin in your development and test environments and provide as much feedback as possible prior to 3.2 GA. Thanks!
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Spring Framework 3.2 M2 Released
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Software Release Summary
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Register: November 8, 3:00pm Western Europe (London, GMT) Introducing Spring Hadoop

Video: Introducing the Spring Tool Suite (STS)

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  What's new in Groovy 2.0?
Groovy is a very popular alternative language for the JVM that continues to bring more developer productivity and more performance after each release. In this webinar, we'll dive through the new developments in the recently released Groovy 2.0.

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Introducing Spring Hadoop
Part of the Spring Data umbrella, Spring for Apache Hadoop provides support for developing applications based on Apache Hadoop technologies by leveraging the capabilities of the Spring ecosystem. Whether one is writing stand-alone, vanilla MapReduce applications, interacting with data from multiple data stores across the enterprise, or coordinating a complex workflow of HDFS, Pig, or Hive jobs, or anything in between, Spring for Apache Hadoop stays true to the Spring philosophy offering a simplified programming model and addresses "accidental complexity" caused by the infrastructure. Spring for Apache Hadoop, provides a powerful tool in the developer arsenal for dealing with big data volumes.

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  Software Release Summary  
  Spring Integration 2.2.0.M4
Spring Data REST 1.0.0.RC3
Spring Tool Suite and Groovy/Grails Tool Suite 3.1.0.M1
Spring Social Facebook 1.0.2
Spring AMQP 1.1.2
Spring Data Release Train Reaches RC Station
Spring Batch 2.1.9.RELEASE is available

 
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  Integrating Spring MVC with jQuery For Validation Rules
Community-Driven Spring Integration Extensions

 
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