He did a very informative interview with SpringSource founder Rod Johnson for the latest installment in the series.

Thank you InfoQ for sharing this great content, as usual.

Among the many new, exciting features and themes in Spring 3.1, there is Spring Core provides the RestTemplate which facilitates RESTful communication between clients and servers. Spring Android provides support for consuming RESTful web services from Android devices. Android applications. Additionally, Spring Security OAuth, a project for Spring Security that's dedicated to helping people expose secured services using OAuth, started its march to GA this year, as well.

The holiday season is upon us and many people will be celebrating! No matter what holiday you're celebrating (or if you're celebrating at all), let me wish you a wonderful week and the happiest of holidays. To tide you over we've packed this week's roundup to the brim. Enjoy! Santa's elves could learn a thing or two from the SpringSource engineers! Alan Stewart announced Spring Roo 1.2.0 GA on Saturday. This version of Roo has caught the attention of a lot of people. While there are many new features, some of my favorites are the multi-module Maven project support (which lets you, for…

Um, OK, ignore me. Just astonished. Let's get into the roundup because there is a lot of new content this week. to your repository queries. There's not a lot of details here, because he describes a real-world application with many moving parts, but it's useful to see how the pieces stack together. Using Hibernate? This blog, by frequent Spring blogger Baeldung, introduces

Daniel Mikusa has put together a fantastic post introducing JVM performance tuning while running Apache Tomcat. The post introduces the various command line options, including -Xss, -XX:PermSize and -XX:MaxPermSize, as well as some details about choice of JVM garbage collector. Nice post!

Welcome back to another installment of This Week in Spring. For those of us in the US, the Thanksgiving holiday is upon us. Generally, the idea behind Thanksgiving (which has analogs in many other countries, as well) is to have a day to reflect on the things we are thankful for. In that spirit, let me offer one of the things that I am thankful for: thank you, dear readers, for being part of the most awesome community out there. Between all the cool stuff you guys are doing and all the cool stuff happening at SpringSource, it is an absolute pleasure to put together this roundup every week. We…

As usual, visit the community download page to get the latest bits. Spring Integration 2.1 M2 Has Been Released. It includes numerous fixes and new features, including a refactored (simpler and more flexible) aggregator and resequencer, an XPath filter, JDBC stored procedure adapters, and AMQP-backed Message Channels. Be sure to get the bits from the community download page. Readers of this column will remember that InfoQ recorded sessions from the Paris "What's Next," and we got to see Adrian Colyer's keynote on cloud computing in the enterprise. InfoQ's just released two more…