Welcome back to another installation of This week in Spring!. There's been a flurry of activity this week at SpringSource as we begin the final leg of the march to SpringOne! We're just a week away, and the show is shaping up every day to be the best show ever! We hope to see you there! Don't miss the day 1 and 2 keynotes from Adrian Colyer, Jurgen Hoeller, Mark Pollack, Graeme Rocher, as well as exciting sessions we've highlighted on SpringSource.org in the last 4 weeks: Going Async - Push Notifications, Client-Side UI Smackdown, Decomposing Applications for Deployability and Scalability, How to build Big Data Pipelines for Hadoop using OSS.

1. Alvin J Rayes put together a nice post on using Spring MVC 3 with Apache Tiles, the templating engine.
2. Tool Suites lead Martin Lippert has announced that Spring Tool Suite and Groovy/Grails Tool Suite 3.1.0 have been released! Nice job, Martin!
3. Spring Security lead Rob Winch has announced that Spring Security 2.0.8, 3.0.8, and 3.1.3 have been released! This brings the total number of outstanding bugs down to 0. Excellent work, Rob!
4. Have you been following the exciting new blogs from the Spring Integration team on the upcoming Spring Integration 2.2 release's new features?

   	 <A href = "http://blog.springsource.org/2012/10/09/spring-integration-2-2-retry-and-more/">Gary Russell has put together a nice blog on the new support for retry in Spring Integration</A>.  The support for retry capabilities originally comes from Spring Batch's support for retrying  
   	 operations, and was then factored out to the <a href="http://www.github.com/springsource/spring-retry">Spring Retry</A> project. Now, you can take advantage of it in Spring Integration flows!
   

5. Gunnar Hillert has a nice post on how to use the new adapters in Spring Integration 2.2 to work with JPA.
6. Learning OAuth? Want to know about the scenarios in which OAuth can help better secure your RESTful APIs? Join Spring ninja Dr. David Syer for his article introducing OAuth, in terms of how Cloud Foundry uses it for the UAA service.

	<LI> Krishna Prasad has put together some very cool posts recently.  I liked his post on connecting systems using…

Welcome back to another installment of This Week in Spring! There's so much good stuff to look at this week. Can you believe we're already staring down October?

It's time to think about who or what you are going to be for halloween!

With October comes SpringOne2GX, the premier event for Spring developers. Check out the final schedule of speakers and sessions for this year's event! SpringOne 2GX is your opportunity to learn from development leads and published authors on the Spring, Groovy/Grails, Tomcat and Cloud technologies.

1. The video from Spring Security lead Rob Winch's webinar introducing Spring Security is now available.
2. Oleg Zhurakousky kicks off the march to Spring Integration 2.2 with a blog introducing the new MongoDB features in 2.2.
3. Gary Russell has announced release candidate 1 of Spring Integration 2.2.

         This is intended to be the final release before GA, so users are encouraged to give feedback on this release.  
   
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4. Costin Leau has announced the 1.0.0.RC1 release of Spring Shell, which is an extraction of the shell used in Spring Roo and made available through the Spring programming model.

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5. Roger Hughes is back at it again, this time with a look at Spring 3.1 caching and configuration options, specifically focusing on setting up a CacheManager.
6. The vFabric blog has an interesting look at the "split-agent" architecture behind Spring Insight, that allows the separation of the collection stage from the analysis one.
7. Krishna Prasad has a nice post on obtaining test coverage information for Spring Web Flow applications.
8. Mattias Severson has a nice post on handling errors in Spring MVC-based RESTful application.
9. Ronillo Ang's put together a very brief deck on the fundamental pieces of a Spring MVC application.
10. The JavaCode Geeks blog has a nice post on writing persistence layers with the Spring framework.
11. L'Artech blog has a cool post on creating the login form for a web application using Spring MVC, in part 3 of a series.

Welcome to another installation of This Week in Spring! This week I'm in Bloomington-Normal, Illinois talking to StateFarm about Spring Projects: MVC, REST, Mobile, and Android. The developers here are code ninjas. Listening to their internal talks over the course of the day has been eye opening, to say the least. 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! Oh, and don't forget, if you're in the United States, today is national cheeseburger day! So... bon appetit!

<LI> Chris Beams has announced the availability of <a href ="http://www.springsource.org/node/3654">Spring Framework 3.2 M2</a>, which features many new features including improved <CODE>TestContext</CODE> support, Spring MVC improvements, asynchronous <CODE>@Controllers</CODE>, and lots of bug-fixes and improvements.  </LI>
<LI> This month's SpringSource webinar is coming fast - <a href ="http://www.springsource.org/node/3653"> Spring Security with Rob Winch</a>. Be sure to register now! </LI>
<li> Martin Lippert has announced the availability  of the <a href="http://www.springsource.org…

Welcome to another installation of This Week in Spring! I'm off to Oslo, Norway for the JavaZone conference to talk to people about using Spring Integration and Spring Batch on top of Cloud Foundry. Again, this is a natural use case: Cloud Foundry makes it easy to scale to handle the largest workloads, and Spring Integration and Spring Batch, presumably sitting on top of RabbitMQ, take care of the plumbing and do the heavy lifting of workload distribution across the cluster.

 <P>Wrapping up from last week's Cloud Foundry   Open Tour - India, touring <a href="http://opentour.cloudfoundry…

Welcome back to another installment of This Week in Spring, VMWorld edition! We're at the VMWorld event, talking to developers about Spring and Cloud Foundry. There's been a lot of exciting news coming out of this event, including some interesting updates around vFabric and updates regarding the timelines for Cloud Foundry itself: CloudFoundry.com, the hosted PaaS from VMware, will be GA by end-of-year, and next year will see the availability of a private on-premise Cloud Foundry. Both vFabric and Cloud Foundry are ideal environments for your Spring applications, and it's nice to see these platforms evolve.

1. Oliver Gierke has announced that the Spring Data Release Train has reached the station! This release is an umbrella release of several projects that provides uniformity across the various modules.

   	This release includes Spring Data Commons 1.4.0.RC1, Spring Data JPA 1.2.0.RC1, 
   	Spring Data MongoDB 1.1.0.RC1, Spring Data Neo4j 2.1.0.RC3 and Spring Data Gemfire 1.2.0.RC1.
   	
   	
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   <LI> Gunnar Hillert has a nice blog introducing how to <a href = "http://blog.springsource.org/2012/08/23/spring-integration-extensions/">bootstrap custom Spring Integration adapter development.</a>
   	 
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   <LI>  Gary Russel has announced that the latest iteration of  <a href  = "http://www.springsource.org/node/3639">Spring Integration, 2.2.0M4, is now available</a>.  Gary, a very busy man indeed…

Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This roundup is put together by aggregating lots of great content from all around the web. If you have content suggestions, or if you simply want a direct line to some of the content that we post, check us out on Twitter, and Google+. As usual, we've got a lot to go over, so let's dive into it.

1. Up first this week, there is a lot of new content available on the SpringSource Dev YouTube channel.

   	The video from  Spring Data Neo4J lead Michael Hunger's excellent webinar <a href = "http://www.springsource.org/node/3632">introducing Spring Data Neo4j</a> is also available. 
   

   The video from VMWare engineer Jerry Kuch's webinar providing an update on the new features in RabbitMQ is also available. Finally, the video from the webinar that Ken Rimple, Srini Penchikala, and I did introducing how to more fully exploit Spring Roo's interactive add-on mechanism is available.

2. Spring Security OAuth lead Dr. David Syer has announced that Spring Security OAuth 1.0.0.RC2 is now available.

	<LI> Remember our pal Tobias Trelle? He's got another fantastic article that's been published on InfoQ called <a…

Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! As usual, we've got a lot to cover, so let's get to it.

1. The SpringSource Tool Suite has been open sourced! And, two different versions of it are now available, supporting two different developers: the Spring developer, served by the Spring Tool Suite, and the Groovy and Grails developer, served by the Groovy/Grails Tool Suite. For more on this fantastic news, check out Tool Suites-lead Martin Lippert's blog.
2. Spring Security lead Rob Winch announced the latest version of Spring Security, version 3.1.2, has been released.

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   <LI> The ZeroTurnaround blog has a <EM> really</EM> cool little blog on rapid development with Spring and Hibernate. 
   	 Of course, Zero Turnaround has a handy little software agent that lets you reload Java classes on the fly. So that's a <EM>huge</EM> gain in productivity right there. That, coupled with XML-free Spring 3.1 and Hibernate 4.1, and you have yourself a <Em>really</EM> awesome combination. To learn more, check out the blog!  The example he illustrates are also well <a href = "http://github.com/cloudfoundry-samples/springmvc-hibernate-template">represented in this sample…

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

1. I did a brief review of Manning's new book, Spring Roo in Action. Check it, and the book, out!

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     <LI> The <a href = "http://bit.ly/QWSrml">Cloud Foundry Integration for Eclipse Now Supports Tunneling to Services</a>. This increases the parity betwen the Eclipse support (and the SpringSource Tool Suite support)  and the <CODE>vmc</CODE> command-line client.  </LI>
   	
   
   	<LI> The VMware has a very cool blog taking a look the roles Spring and RabbitMQ play in 
   		 <a href = "http://blogs.vmware.com/vfabric/2012/07/spring-and-rabbitmq-behind-indias-12-billion-person-biometric-database-1.html">in the new project behind India's 1.2 Billion Person Biometric Database</a>. <EM>Very</EM> cool…

Welcome to another installation of This Week in Spring!

This week I'm in Bangalore, India with other members of the SpringSource and Cloud Foundry teams talking to major system integrators about Spring and Cloud Foundry. The uptake's amazing, and the feedback is even better.

In related news, the Cloud Foundry Open Tour is coming to India next month! If you want to hear thought leaders and experts and learn about cloud computing, platform-as-a-service, architecture and Spring, then be sure to register now for either the Bangalore or Pune events. I look forward to seeing you there!

1. Jonathan Brisbin has announced the latest release of Spring Data Rest, version 1.0.0.RC2, which features JSONPE support, and better integration with Spring MVC applications, as well as even more configuration hooks so you can exert even more control over the behavior of the framework.
2. Dr. David Syer has announced the 1.0.0.RC1 release of Spring Security OAuth. Spring Security OAuth is a module that works with Spring Security and lets you expose OAuth-secured RESTful resources.

   The new release features lots of new extension points in the Authorization Server features, a Whitelabel UI for better out-of-box experience, and improved support for expressions in security filters. Check it out!

<LI> WADL is a description format for RESTful web-services,  in much the same way that  WSDL describes SOAP-based web services' contracts. This excellent…

Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This week, the SpringSource and Cloud Foundry teams are OSCON talking about open source enterprise and cloud computing with anybody and everybody. If you're in the region, be sure to check out the SpringSource and Cloud Foundry booth in the exhibition hall!

1. The Spring Data team is working on a book with O'Reilly on Spring Data. If you want to preview and feedback, now's your chance!
2. Are you using Spring Data Commons support for repositories? How would you feel about support for Java-centric configuration? Check out the new support for Java-configuration in Spring Data!

<LI> The Java Beginner's tutorial blog has a quick post on  <a href = "http://javabeginnerstutorial.com/spring-framework-tutorial/configure-hsqldb-java-spring/">how to use the embedded database namespace that debuted in Spring 3.0</A>. The <a href = "http://static.springsource.org/spring/docs/3.1.x/spring-framework-reference/htmlsingle/spring-framework-reference.html#jdbc-embedded-database-support">namespace</A> is great if you want to setup H2, HSQL and Derby instances quickly and then specify initialization <CODE>.SQL</CODE> statements or scripts to run to initialize the database to a…