News & Events

Welcome back to another installment of "This Week in Spring." We've got a lot of content this week surrounding Spring Roo, and so, in that spirit, I move that we christen today Rooday, in honor of all the great Roo-related content in this week's roundup.

Things are kicking into over drive at SpringSource as everybody's preparing for SpringOne. This year's show is an exciting one because it'll be the first year where CloudFoundry will be present, which means that there will be lots of content around CloudFoundry and Spring, together, working as an unbeatable combination. I can't wait!

1. InfoQ did an interview with Spring Social lead Craig Walls on the just-released Spring Social 1.0. Fascinating read! Once the interview has whetted your appetite, be sure to try the Spring Social quickstart. Spring Social got some great coverage elsewhere, too, including this post from adtmag.com on the new 1.0 release.
2. SpringSource Tool Suite 2.7.2 has been released. The new release features support for vFabric tc Server 2.6, support for Spring Roo 1.2.0.M1, and also updates Mylyn to 3.6.2. Great stuff!
3. Spring Roo 1.2.M1 released. The new release is a really exciting one. There are some exciting backoffice changes, of course, like the switch from GPL to Apache 2, and the migration of the code to Github.com, but those are absolutely the least interesting bits in this new milestone. The first, and obvious, improvement for any user will be the speed boost: Spring Roo 1.2 is now ten times faster. If that wasn't enough, there's also service-layer support (e.g, you can generate service objects), choice in which type of repository layer is generated (active-record style or traditional repository objects), much improved, very flexible GWT support, MongoDB support, and multi-schema aware database reverse engineering (DBRE) and shell improvements. Honestly, this little paragraph doesn't do it justice. Check out the blog for the skinny.
4. Spring Roo's moved to Github.com! The source code is now available on the SpringSource Github page. There's a readme.txt at the root of the directory (or, indeed, presented inline on the Spring Roo Github.com page) that you can follow to start hacking on Spring Roo. If nothing else, having the Spring Roo source code is helpful to learn how to write your own custom add-ons, so check it out!
5. Stefan Schmidt chimes in to talk about the the application layering and persistence choices for Spring Roo, providing details on some of the features enumerated in the new release.
6. Speaking of Spring Roo... and Cloud Foundry.. here's a busy post on both of them. It feels like it should be two or three posts, but good stuff, either way!
7. Thymeleaf 1.1's just been released! Thymeleaf is a view template library (like Velocity or FreeMarker) that offers a very clean integration for Spring users. Check it out!
8. Jan Machacek at CakeSolutions has written up a post about his extensions to the Specs2 specification testing framework, BeanTables, which lets you inject and work with Spring beans from your specifications. The blog's helpful, but I would definitely also check the Github.com page itself for a good introduction.
9. Singaram Subramanian has written up a blog on how he was tasked with solving an email integration problem and decided to use Spring Integration. The blog details the code and approach and even talks a bit about the patterns involved. Nice blog, Singaram!