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Dear Spring Community,

I'm pleased to announce that the first public development milestone of Spring BlazeDS Integration, the newest member of the open source Spring portfolio, is now available.
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This is a foundational release that sets the stage for using Adobe Flex and BlazeDS in conjunction with the Spring programming model to build Rich Internet Applications.  We have a number of further integration ideas in mind already for the next milestone, and I would like to invite the community to get involved by trying out this early preview and giving us feedback in the community forum and Jira as we progress towards a full-fledged 1.0.  Check out Using Spring BlazeDS Integration 1.0.0.M1 to get started.

Jeremy Grelle
Spring BlazeDS Integration Lead      

SpringSource has just announced an international Tomcat Expert Seminar Series in January and February of 2009. Designed for operations staff, engineers, and developers who are looking for expert advice on how to optimize and manage Tomcat in production, the half day seminar will cover:

• Large-scale Tomcat deployments
• Performance tuning Tomcat
• Troubleshooting in production environments
• Enterprise capabilities for Tomcat
• Mitigating risk using Tomcat in mission critical deployments

The events are being held in major cities in Europe and North America:

• Europe: Munich, Paris, Amsterdam & London
• North America: New York, Washington, DC, Chicago, Dallas & San Francisco

For a small registration fee, attendees will get valuable information from the experts about the best ways to use Apache Tomcat. Be sure to register now!

On Thursday December 11th, join Apache expert and committer, Filip Hanik, as he introduces SpringSource tc Server - The Tomcat you know, the enterprise capabilities you need. This webinar will give a preview of tc Server capabilities for:

• Managing large scale deployments
• Controlling distributed groups of Tomcat instances
• Deploying enterprise applications reliably to production systems

The webinar is offered at two different times: 3pm CET for developers in Europe and 1pm EST for developers in North America.

Juergen Hoeller's latest blog announces the release of the first milestone for Spring 3.0. The main highlights are the addition of REST support, the Spring Expression Language (EL) and the move to Java 5 and above. The blog post contains the details.

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The third and last day of SpringOne Americas 2008 completed a week full of fascinating technical topics. With yesterday's 1.0 release of Spring Integration, Mark Fisher had attendees sitting in the aisles of the conference room looking to learn the basics of this new project. Craig Walls packed his session with great information on how to develop Spring applications with absolutely no XML and Christian Dupuis showed an early look at the integration announced with VMWare.

In an homage to Monty Python, the final keynote was hijacked by a group of J2EE activists, I hope you enjoy the video.

The second day of SpringOne Americas 2008 continued the great series of technical presentations. The conference rooms were packed for Arjen Poutsma's talk on RESTful Web Applications with Spring 3.0 and Juergen Hoeller's presentation on Spring and Java EE 6. The conference attendees did get to enjoy the sun and surf during the afternoon beach party but the code kept on flying when Adrian Colyer built a Grails application from scratch, live on stage, in less than 10 minutes during his keynote and ran the application on dm Server.

Andrei Stefan and Rob Harrop chat with the emerald rockstar of Spring, Arjen Poutsma.	SpringOne Americas attendees enjoy a beach break in between sessions.

Dear Spring Community,
We are pleased to announce that the Spring Integration 1.0.0 GA release is now available.
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I was particularly glad to make this announcement here at SpringOne Americas after having officially announced the project launch at last year's conference. Thanks to all of you who have provided feedback in the Spring Integration Forum or contributed issues and comments in JIRA. Please stay tuned to the Spring Integration Home for links to blogs and articles as they become available over the next few days and weeks.

Mark Fisher
Spring Integration Lead

The first day of SpringOne Americas 2008 was packed full of exciting news and interesting information. The attendees at the biggest SpringOne conference ever jammed into Rod Johnson's keynote on Monday night to hear about the new SpringSource tc Server. Incorporating enterprise management and robust diagnostics, tc Server showed everyone how to get the Tomcat you already know, enhanced with the production capabilities you need.

John Rymer from Forrester gave Tuesday evening's keynote to wrap up an exciting first 24 hours at the conference. John discussed the emergence of lean development models, the pressure from market consolidation and made some interesting predictions for application platforms in 2009.

tc Server at the SpringOne Americas 2008	John Rymer talks to the SpringOne alpha geeks

Dear Spring Community,

I'm pleased to announce that we have released Spring IDE 2.2.1. This version is mainly a bugfix and maintenance release but has some significant user level changes as well.

Get more information at the Spring IDE blog

Watch out for more tooling related announcements from SpringOne during the upcoming week.

Dear Spring community,
I'm pleased to announce that Spring Dynamic Modules for OSGi(tm) Service Platforms (formerly known as Spring OSGi) 1.2.0 M2 has been released.

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The second milestone in the 1.2.x branch, M2 introduces: