News & Events

Welcome back to another installment of This Week in Spring. Lots of good stuff to get into, so let's get to it.

1. The video from Grails Advocate Peter Ledbrook's webinar, "Tuning Your Grails Applications," has been made available here. Lots of great tidbits for web developers in general, as well as Grails developers in specific. Be sure to check out the other great content on the SpringSource YouTube channel.
2. OSCON is right around the corner, and SpringSource is going to be there in full force! Come see yours truly (Josh Long), Steve Mayzak, Ezra Zygmuntowicz, Derek Collison, Bruce Snyder, David McCrory, James Watters and others talk about Spring, CloudFoundry, and much more at OSCON (as well as OSCON Java, and OSCON Data!). Also, feel free to check out our booth where we'd be happy to answer questions, introduce you to new technologies and meet and greet. Going to be there? Let us know, send us a message on Twitter to @SpringSource.
3. Spring Data Redis 1.0.0.M4 has been released The new release features several improvements. My favorite? A Spring 3.1 CacheManager implementation that uses Redis! Out of the box, Spring 3.1's cache abstraction supports a CacheManager implementation based on the java.util.Map<K,V> interface, and an Ehcache implementation. The Spring Gemfire project ships with a CacheManager implementation that delegates to GemFire, as well. This new Redis implementation adds to the raft of options available already, and Spring 3.1's not even GA!
4. Speaking of Redis, check out this upcoming webinar, Getting Started with Spring Data Redis. From the description, "This webinar will introduce Redis, its data structures, the fundamental concepts behind it and the Redis support in Spring Data, and will showcase how easy it is to get started and scale out into a cloud environment such as Cloud Foundry." Be sure to tune in!
5. Spring Integration 2.0.5 has just been released. This release addresses 48 issues of which roughly half were bugs and half were improvements. For details see the Release Notes.
6. Dr. David Syer, lead of the Spring Batch project, lead of the Spring Hadoop project, committer on just about everything else, and nice guy, all around, has just posted an amazingly clear, helpful post on navigating the rough waters of a complicated Git pull request. A must-read if - like me - you know that Git could solve all your workflow problems, if you only really understood it! Remember, the process starts on git.SpringSource.org and on github.com/SpringSource. Check it ... err... clone it out!
7. Ken Rimple's at it again! This time, he's excerpted content from the upcoming book (which is available in Manning's Early Access Program, or MEAP), Spring Roo in Action, on testing entity validations with a mock entity. Good stuff, check it out!