News & Events

Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring. Can you guys believe we're staring down August already? Time sure has flown quickly! The good news is that we're near my favorite time of the year, SpringOne! This year's speaker and content lineup is going to be amazing, and it will be a unique opportunity to meet with the experts on your favorite technologies, Spring, Grails, Cloud Foundry, RabbitMQ, and much more. Register now to take advantage of early-bird rates...

What're you guys doing in 2 days, on July 26th? Want to learn more about Spring Data Neo4J? Then you should definitely check out the upcoming webinar on Spring Data Neo4j. While we're at it, I also wanted to invite you guys to come see Spring Roo in Action authors Ken Rimple, Srini Penchikala and I present a webinar on Spring Roo (called Spring Roo -- Not Just Another RAD Tool) on August 1, 2012 at 9:30 AM PDT.

Anyway, we've got a lot to cover, so let's get to it!

1. Spring Data has hit stage one. The releases mark the very first step to a common release train that will reach the next major release mid August and include Spring Data Commons, JPA, MongoDB, Neo4J and Gemfire.
2. Spring Shell 1.0 M1 has just been released. Spring Shell is an interactive shell that can be easily extended with commands using a Spring based programming model, extracted from the Spring Roo project.
3. Tobias Flohre is at it again, this time with a fantastic post on Spring Dependency Injection Styles. Definitely worth a read!
4. Are you using Google App Engine and the Google DataStore offering? Check out this blog outlining a simple integration with Spring.
5. John Esposito has a nice blog on how to integrate Spring Data Neo4j with Scala. Definitely worth a read.
6. Christian Posta has a nice post introducing Spring Integration
7. Christian continues, this time with a post on using building routes backed by JMS with Spring Integration
8. Koen Serneels has a quick post announcing his new book, Pro Spring MVC with Webflow. I haven't read it yet, but it looks interesting!
9. Readers of this column will know about Thymeleaf, an HTML5-optimized template engine that works nicely with Spring MVC as a View implementation. The new version now features integration with Apache Tiles, so you can use Thymeleaf templates and manage them in Tiles layouts. Very cool!