Welcome back to another installment of This Week in Spring!

Can you believe we're already further along through December than not? Time sure flies, and yes, we are staring down the end of the year already - but the holiday season usually brings a SpringFramework release right around this time of year, so we're feeling festive! We've even gots tons of extra SpringSource buttons to celebrate.

1. First and foremost, Spring 3.2 has gone GA! Just read the post. Waay too much awesome in one release, and - if you've been following this series over the year than you know I've been looking forward to it. Come back and read the rest when you've upgraded your application and played with some of the awesome new stuff! I'll wait...

	    You know what the best part is? Usually, after a new Spring release, the release train of other Spring projects is quick to adopt - so expect lots of releases in the new year!</LI>  

<LI> We could just stop right there, you know?  BUT, there's more! In this…

Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! We finished SpringOne China over the weekend and are today at the first of two events for SpringOne India in Bangalore and SpringOne in Hyderabad. The shows have been really amazing! In particular, we've enjoyed the food, the sites and the amazing community that have turned up in droves!

An attendee took a shot of me as I was giving a talk on Spring on Cloud Foundry	Dr. Mark Pollack, myself, Gary Russell and Chris Richardson at a restaurant in Beijing
I gave a talk in Bangalore and people deluged the stage with questions and greetings. I asked the last wave of people to take a photo with me.	LtoR: Gary Russel, Josh Long, Jennifer Hickey, Jeremy Grelle, Oliver Gierke, Chris Richardson -- the whole SpringOne India lineup

<LI> Roy Clarkson has announced <a href = "http://www.springsource.org/spring-android/news/1.0.1-released">Spring for Android 1.0</a>, which     adds support for Jackson 2.x in <code>RestTemplate</code> through the new <code>MappingJackson2HttpMessageConverter</code>. It also addresses several bugs and compatibility issues with <code>RestTemplate</code> and Android Jelly Bean.</LI>
<LI>The <a href="http://www.tomcatexpert.com">TomcatExpert.com portal</a> has a nice post on Spring Insight Developer to analyze code, <a href="http://www.springsource.org/node/3761">install it with Tomcat, and…

Wow guys! December 4th already! Time sure flies when you're having fun!

Welcome back to another installment of <EM>This Week in Spring</EM>. This week, I'm in Beijing for <a href="http://springonechina.cloudfoundry.com">SpringOne China</a> and, next week, I'm off to India for <A href="http://springoneindia.cloudfoundry.com/">SpringOne India</a>. If you're in Beijing, Bangalore or Hyderabad, I'd love to see you at these events!

Alright, let's get on with this week's roundup!

1. Mark Fisher gets the ball rolling this week with a very nice present: Spring Integration 2.2.0.GA has been released! The new release is well described in the blogs on the various new features referenced in the release announcement, so be sure to check it out!

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   <LI>Martin Lippert's announced that the <a href="http://www.springsource.org/node/3757">Spring Tool Suite and Groovy Tool Suite 3.2.0.M1 have been released!</a> </li>
   
    <LI> Tobias…

Welcome back to another installment of This Week in Spring! If you're in the states, then I hope you're well rested from a hopefully very pleasant holiday weekend, because we've got a lot to cover this week!

I hope you find this roundup useful. If you should ever want to peruse previous weeks' roundups, we've recently created a This Week in Spring hash tag for the blog archives.

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

1. Chris Beams has announced that the Spring Framework 3.2 RC2 has been released, consisting largely of bugfixes and refactoring as the project nears GA.
2. Andy Wilkinson has announced the release and availability of the Spring Migration Analyzer, a command-line utility that analyzes enterprise Java applications and produces a report describing the application and how it can be migrated to Spring. Input an EAR file, get a migration effort report. It supports WebLogic, WebSphere, Java EE and JBoss in the milestone release, but we are looking for community support to make it better for GA!
3. Catch the latest in the Spring Data webinar series on Dec 13th -- Data Access and Processing with Spring Data, Hadoop, Batch, Integration. We are also have a webinar on Spring Data Gemfire on Dec 6th: The Data Renaissance: Going in-Memory with VMWare vFabric GemFire 7.0 and Spring.
4. If you have missed the other webinars in the Spring Data Webinar series, check out the SpringSource Dev Youtube channel for recently published replays on: Data Access with Spring -- Getting the most out of JPA, JDBC and REST and Introducing Spring for Apache Hadoop.
5. Gary Russell has announced that Spring Integration 2.2.0.RC3 has been released.
6. Spring Social 1.1.0 has been released. The new release includes easier XML and Java configuration, tighter adherence to the latest OAuth 2 specification drafts, including HTTP Basic client authentication and support for Resource Owner Credentials Grant and Client Credentials Grant, and updates to the Facebook and Twitter API bindings.
7. Jens Schauder has a nice post on creating new Spring beans on demand using the singleton scope.
8. The Java How to Program blog has a nice roundup on

     <a href="http://www.hubberspot.com/2012/10/how-to-use-component-annotation-for.html">How to use <CODE>@Component</CODE> 
     annotation to automatically configure Spring beans</a>.
   

9. This is a nice post on how to implement the chain-of-responsibility pattern using Spring and @Autowired (or alternatively @Inject).
10. Viral Patel's back at it again, this time with a post on Spring 3 MVC interceptors.
11. The Mkyong blog has another nice post up on Spring and Java threading example using the Spring thread scope.
12. DZone has a nice post up on easy integration testing with Spring and the JUnit 4 support.
13. I recently wrote up a version of a tutorial on getting started with SpringSource Tool Suite and Spring for beginners.

Wow! Guys, can you believe we are again staring down the end of the year? Time sure flies! In the US, this is the week of Thanksgiving, a holiday where we're supposed to take a moment and reflect upon the things for which we're grateful. I am (and I'm sure I speak for the team in saying that we are..) eternally grateful for you guys, the wonderful, vibrant and engaging community surrounding Spring, RabbitMQ and Cloud Foundry that makes putting together this roundup such a pleasure every week.

With that, let's get on with the news:

1. Thomas Risberg has announced that the Cloud Foundry Maven plugin 1.0.0.M4 is now available.

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    <LI>Did you miss out at <A href="http://springone2gx.com/conference/washington/2012/10/home">SpringOneOne2GX 2012  in Washington D.C.</a>?  Don't fret. We'll release 2 sessions every week on <a href="http://www.springsource.org/SpringOne2012Recordings">springsource.org</a>. We've already released Day 1 and 2 Keynotes. Available now:  a talk from Rossen Stoyanchev on "What's New in Spring Mvc 3.2" and a talk from Roy Clarkson and Craig Walls on "Extending Spring Mvc With Spring Mobile and Javascript."
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   <LI> Our friend Tobias Trelle is at it again! This week, he's   <A…

Welcome back to another installment of This Week in Spring! I started this week back in the lovely Sofia, Bulgaria for the Cloud Foundry Open Tour event, talking to a packed audience about building Spring applications on Cloud Foundry. Now, I'm in Antwerp, Belgium, at the Devoxx conference where I'll present on what's new in Spring 3.2, Cloud Foundry and more. If you're here, I invite you to come visit the SpringSource booth and see some of the talks on Spring that I - and others - will be giving.

1. 		Roy Clarkson has announced not one, but two releases of Spring  Mobile this week! 
   

   Spring Android 1.0.1 has been released. This release includes a change to support BlackBerry 10 mobile devices. BlackBerry 10 mobile devices are now resolved as a mobile device when using the LiteDeviceResolver. Then, he released the
   1.1.0.M1 release, which folds in the 1.0.1 support as well as tablet support in site preference handling and site switching, support for Java-based container configuration, and support for servlet based configurations.

2. Thomas Risberg has announced the GA release of Spring Data JDBC extensions with QueryDSL and Advanced Oracle support.
3. There's a lot of interesting…

Welcome back to another installment of This Week in Spring! We've got a lot to cover, so let's get to it!

1. Did you guys miss SpringOne2GX 2012? I'm not going to lie to you - you really missed out! However, don't despair! Two of my absolute favorite talks from the show are now available online - the keynotes! Both were amazing, but if you're looking for an amazing introduction to the trends underlying next generation of web applications, and a great (amazing!) tour of RabbitMQ, check out the day 2 keynote!

   	More sessions will be posted on that page, so check back often.</LI>
    <LI> Spring 3.2 is drawing ever nearer!   The H  has some 
   	<a href  ="http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Spring-Framework-3-2-nears-with-release-candidate-1744277.html">nice coverage of the new features  in the framework</a>.
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    <LI> Chris Beams  has announced the latest maintenance release, <A href="http://www.springsource.org/node/3720">Spring 3.1.3 - the third in the 3.1 line, has been released</a>! 
   

2. Guys, I'm so excited to tell you that SpringOne is coming to India! Register now!
3. Does your PaaS support your workloads? If you're using Cloud Foundry, then chances are good that it does!
4. Michael Isvy has put together a nice post on Spring MVC and the view layer
5. The Spring Framework TestContext framework now supports session/request scoped beans for integration testing
6. The first milestone of Spring Data SOLR has been released!
7. Jonathan Brisbin has announced the 1.2 release of the Spring REST Shell. The new release features SSL, basic auth, dotrc support, an updated Homebrew install formula, HATEOAS and hypermedia.
8. Check out Costin Leau's webinar introducing Spring Data Hadoop this Thursday!
9. RabbitMQ developer advocate Alvaro Videla linked to a great post on visualizing RabbitMQ topologies.
10. Spring Data Batch and Spring Security OAuth ninja and Cloud Foundry UAA committer Dr. David Syer has written a really fantastic post on using Cloud Foundry's UAA agents OAuth2 endpoint. This has scarce little to do with Spring, except that Dr. Syer's posts are very educational and helped me tremendously in understanding the problems that Spring Security OAuth solves.

Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring!

1. Spring Data GemFire 1.2.1 and GemFire 7.0 have been released! The new Spring Data release includes complete Spring XML namespace support for configuration of all GemFire resources, eliminating the need for GemFire's native cache XML (cache XML is also supported), and Spring Data Repositories for GemFire. Also of note, the GemFire shell (gfsh) was built with Spring Shell. For more on the GemFire 7.0 release, be sure to check out the post which in turn links to release notes and documentation.

					<LI> Michael Isvy  has put together a nice blog <a href=" http://blog.springsource.org/2012/10/30/spring-mvc-from-jsp-and-tiles-to-thymeleaf/">on moving from JSP and Tiles to Thymeleaf</a>, a new view layer that works particularly well with Spring MVC (and that we have talked about quite a bit in this very roundup for the last few years!).</LI>
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	Spring Security lead Rob Winch has done a nice interview with InfoQ on <A href= "http://www.infoq.com/interviews/robert-winch-spring-security-multi-tenant-applications"> Spring Security  in multi-tenant appications on the cloud</a>  </LI…

Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! As usual, we've got a lot to cover so let's get to it! A lot of this news come from SpringSource itself, from various projects timed to coincide with SpringOne2GX last week. It's like receiving an early birthday gift! And speaking of gifts, if you missed SpringOne2GX, don't worry! We recorded the SpringOne sessions and they will be posted soon. Also, you can check out the show wrap ups for Day 1, Day 2, and Day 3 on SpringSource.org to get a flavor for the conference.

1. Costin Leau announced the release of Spring for Apache Hadoop 1.0.RC1 (the first-ever RC of Spring for Apache Hadoop!) featuring a template, exception translation and declarative runner for Pig and Hive scripts, enhanced map/reduce .jar and tool execution, and refined JVM scripting, M/R, and Cascading runners. Don't miss the upcoming webinar on Nov 8th!

<LI>  Peter Bell did a    <A href = "http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Spring-Data-NoSQL">great presentation on Spring Data and the NoSQL </a>  space for QCon. Be sure to check it out!  </LI> 

2. Yusuf has done a nice job introducing Spring's XA support in terms of the open source Bitronix standalone JTA-XA transaction manager. For an alternative guide, might I humbly suggest this blog post?
3. Oleg Zhurakousky announced the release of Spring Integration 2.1.4 and 2.2.0.RC2 . The new release features pseudo transactions, JPA support, built-in retry support, and a lot more, so be sure to check it out!
4. Costin Leau announced the release of Spring Data Redis 1.0.2, which features cache expiration and ZSet methods, among other things.
5. Thomas Risberg announced the availability of the Spring Data JDBC extensions with Oracle database support, version 1.0.0.RC4.
6. Satish Ab has a nice post on building the web layer with Spring MVC for his sample invoice application.
7. The Mkyong blog has a nice post on how to autowire dependiecnes into custom JSF validators. Very nice post!
8. Our friend Krishna Prasad has a nice post on hwo to implement the control bus pattern with Spring Integration and JMS

Welcome to This Week in Spring, SpringOne2GX 2012 edition! I'm putting this together from day 2 of the SpringOne2GX conference in Washington D.C.!

Last night, we kicked off the event with a great keynote by Juergen Hoeller (pictured above), Dr. Mark Pollack, Graeme Rocher, and Adrian Colyer, some amazing break dancing by international dancer Agame, and a mysterious kangaroo (see below)!

This is the premier event for JVM developers, featuring great speakers from VMWare, SpringSource, TypeSafe, Neo4j, and many others speaking on all manner of topics. The week is just kicking off. While the conference is running, there's also going to be a contest to find the best applications built using SpringSource technologies (Spring, Grails) and deployed to Cloud Foundry. I've seen the prizes (above), and I would enter too if I could!

<P> If you're at the show, be sure to stop by the SpringSource and Cloud Foundry booths in the expo hall and pick up shwag and answers to your lingering questions. I'll be there tomorrow, in the evening.</p><P> Anyway, I won't linger <EM>too</EM> much on what you're missing! Let's move on to this week's roundup because, as usual, there's a lot to cover! </p> 
	
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		<LI>Want to learn about what else has happened at SpringOne2GX? Check <a href= "http://www.springsource.org/node/3704">out this fantastic wrap up of day 1</a></LI>
		<LI> The Spring Data release train has finally arrived…