Dear Spring Community,

I am pleased to announce that the Spring Web Flow 2.0.8 release is now available.

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This release includes a number of small bug fixes and minor improvements, along with a few updates to the documentation. We would like to extend a sincere thanks to our active and dedicated community, as several of the issues were resolved with the help of community-contributed patches.

Jeremy Grelle
Spring Web Products Team

Today we announced the public availability of the 1.0 GA release of the newest member of the open source Spring project portfolio, Spring BlazeDS Integration. Corresponding with this event, I thought it time to bring my previous getting started post up to date. To recap:

This project's purpose is to make it easier to build Spring-powered Rich Internet Applications using Adobe Flex as the front-end client. It aims to achieve this purpose by providing first-class support for using the open source Adobe BlazeDS project and its powerful remoting and messaging facilities in combination with the familiar Spring programming model.

Taking Spring BlazeDS Integration for a Test Drive

We have really expanded the feature set since that first M1 release to include:

• full Spring Security integration
• asynchronous messaging support (with 3 different message destination types)
• a complete XML configuration namespace
• annotation-based configuration options for remoting
• numerous advanced customization hooks

Now included with the project distribution is a thorough collection of samples built in collaboration with Adobe that demonstrate use of the various features, known as the Spring BlazeDS Integration Test Drive. These samples are a great way to get up and running with the project, and here I'm going to give you a quick…

Dear Spring Community,

I'm pleased to announce that the first GA release of Spring BlazeDS Integration, the open source solution for building Spring-powered RIAs with Adobe Flex, is now available.

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In response to the community feedback since the release of RC2, we've clarified some of the documentation, made a few minor improvements to the Spring Integration messaging adapter, added some metadata to help with tooling support, and tweaked the ivy and pom files to ensure all dependencies are properly captured. I would like to extend my sincere thanks to all of those who have tried out the early releases and provided feedback, as it has been critical to ensuring that the full 1.0 is solid.

For anyone who is just starting to explore the world of Spring-powered RIAs, be sure to check out Using Spring BlazeDS Integration 1.0 for an introduction and to get up and running.

As always, I encourage anyone interested to get involved by trying out the release and giving us feedback in the community forum and Jira. We've already got a few ideas for what more we can add in the future, and we're always open to hearing your ideas fueled by real-world experience.

Jeremy Grelle
Spring BlazeDS Integration Lead

Dear Spring Community,

I'm pleased to announce that the second release candidate of Spring BlazeDS Integration, the open source solution for building Spring-powered RIAs with Adobe Flex, is now available.

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This is mainly a bug fix release to correct some minor issues found thanks to the fantastic community feedback in response to RC1, but we've also made some key improvements to the way the project is packaged and made available. We are now bundling the comprehensive Spring BlazeDS Integration Test Drive sample application, developed in conjunction with Adobe, together with the project distribution. This version of the Test Drive is set up to be built with Maven, imported into Eclipse, and run with WTP. A short guide to building and running the sample has been added to the reference manual. Additionally, this is the first release to publish Maven-central-compatible POM's, available in our milestone repository.

The community has provided us with excellent feedback throughout the development process, and I encourage anyone interested to get involved by trying out the new functionality and giving us feedback in the community forum and Jira as we push quickly towards a final 1.0.

Jeremy Grelle
Spring BlazeDS Integration Lead

Dear Spring Community,

I'm pleased to announce that the first release candidate of Spring BlazeDS Integration, the newest of the open source Spring web projects, is now available.

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In addition to a number of bug fixes and some general refactoring, the main features of note that have been added in this release are:

• Annotation-based configuration of remote destinations
• Numerous customization hooks for things such as exception translation and incorporating third-party adapters
• Full integration with the BlazeDS Message Service, including support for AMF, JMS, and Spring Integration messaging transports

For those upgrading from M2, take note that the <flex:remote-service> tag has been renamed to <flex:remoting-destination> to be more consistent with the BlazeDS nomenclature. Other than that change, the upgrade process from M2 to RC1 should be smooth.

The community has provided us with excellent feedback throughout the development process, and I encourage anyone interested to get involved by trying out the new functionality and giving us feedback in the community forum and Jira as we push quickly towards a full-fledged 1.0.

Leading up to the 1.0 release, SpringSource and Adobe will be hosting another joint eSeminar on May 14th covering how to get up and running building Spring-powered RIAs with Adobe Flex and Spring BlazeDS Integration. You can sign up here for this free eSeminar.

Jeremy Grelle
Spring BlazeDS Integration Lead

Dear Spring Community,

I'm pleased to announce that the second public development milestone of Spring BlazeDS Integration, the newest of the open source Spring projects, is now available.

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The main features of note that have been added in this release are integration with Spring Security, and simplified XML-namespace-based configuration.  The namespace support results in significantly simpler Spring configuration files than using the full <bean> syntax, especially when using the new security features.

The community has thus far been providing us with some great feedback, and I encourage anyone interested to get involved by trying out the new functionalityand giving us feedback in the community forum and Jira as we progress towards a full-fledged 1.0.

We are looking forward to releasing RC1 in the very near future with the final major new features being centered around messaging integration, including support for both basic Spring JMS, and for more complex routing scenarios using Spring Integration channels.  

In case you missed it, Christophe Coenraets from Adobe recently provided a great introduction to Spring BlazeDS Integration on Adobe TV.  

Jeremy Grelle
Spring BlazeDS Integration Lead 

Update: Most of the code examples shown below are out-of-date and superseded by those shown in the more current "Using Spring BlazeDS Integration 1.0" post.

Today we announced the public availability of the first milestone release of the newest member of the open source Spring project portfolio, Spring BlazeDS Integration. This project's purpose is to make it easier to build Spring-powered Rich Internet Applications using Adobe Flex as the front-end client. It aims to achieve this purpose by providing first-class support for using the open source Adobe BlazeDS project and its powerful…

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.
Download | Reference Documentation | JavaDocs | Changelog

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