News & Events

Welcome back to another installment of This Week in Spring! This last week sure flew by, didn't it? This week, of course, SpringSource is at JavaOne. If you're at the show, be sure to stop by the booth at the Hilton Union Square and say hello! The vFabric, CloudFoundry and SpringSource experts are all there to talk to you. Don't miss the Spring, Groovy and Grails event of the year in Washington, DC: SpringOne2GX. If you haven't already registered, now's the time!

1. SpringSource CTO Adrian Colyer has a nice post on the strong position Spring continues to enjoy at the forefront enterprise Java, NoSQL and cloud portability.
2. Gary Russel has a nice post on a new feature in Spring Integration 2.2 that lets you plugin transactional ("commit" and "rollback") behavior for all messages, not just those coming from transactional resources like JDBC or JMS.
3. Duncan Brown has a nice post on using Spring Data Neo4J. The subject matter alone would make this post a must-read, but Duncan's groan-inducing humor sells it.
4. Yohan Liyanage has a nice look at the ApplicationContext facility to publish and consume events sent from one component to another.
5. The Java Code Geeks blog has a nice post on some of the implications of the Spring's test framework's support for caching ApplicationContexts between tests.
6. Gal Levinsky introduces the problem of circular dependencies and introduces one way Spring can help you work around the issue.
7. Boris Lam is back at it, this time with a post on how to extend Spring Data JPA repositories with a new generic repository base class.
8. Boris Lam has a nice follow up blog that shows how to extend Spring Data JPA to support queries using native Hibernate queries.
9. Viral Patel has a nice code walkthrough demonstrating how to build a dynamic form in Spring MVC - one whose values grow and contract dynamically - that stores its values in a java.util.HashMap
10. Dejan Bosanac has put together a very nice blog explaining one of my favorite features of Spring Integration: the ability to back Spring <channel/> elements with JMS Destinations so that messages are durably conveyed through the system.
11. Lukas Eder has put together a quick blog introducing a recipe for using jOOQ with Spring. JOOQ is a framework that lets you write type-safe SQL queries using a fluid Java API.
12. Damien Lepage has a very cool post on different strategies for designing your beans to encourage better testability.