Welcome back 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 How to do in Java blog has a nice post on how to setup Siteminder pre-authentication using Spring Security 3.
2. Another great SpringOne2GX 2013 session's just been added to the SpringOne2GX 2013 lineup, Real Time Analytics with Spring. This talk introduces one use case for Project Reactor, a foundation for asynchronous applications on the JVM.
3. Andy Clement has just cut a new release of AspectJ, 1.8.0.M1, which will be used in Spring 4 and support Java 8. It is available through the SpringSource Maven repository as 1.8.0.M1. It is also in today's release of AJDT for Eclipse 4.3.
4. The GoPivotal blog has an in-depth look at Apache Tomcat 8. Definitely worth a look!
5. Eberhard Wolff has put together a very nice video on using the recently announced Spring Boot. Nice job, Eberhard! (as usual)
6. Our pal Petri Kainulainen has written a very cool post on unit testing Spring MVC REST APIs.
7. The Being Java Guys blog has a code-heavy post on how to do file uploads with Spring MVC. Nice job!
8. This post from the Matthew's Thoughts! blog explains a simple Spring REST starter project that demonstrates how to use regular Spring Security to add a username and password-based authentication with a Spring MVC-powered REST service.
   
9. The Code with Zen Mind blog has a nice series on building and testing Spring MVC applications. The first post introduces how to setup a test-driven project. The second post demonstrates how to do refactoring and how to introduce new test cases. The third post demonstrates how to use the tests established in the first two posts to survice a major refactoring (the implementation of the service under test changes). Really insightful!
10. This post from the public static void blog() blog introduces how Spring's logging layering works. The post is in what Google Translate insists is Slovak, however, the translation was pretty good and - if we're honest - the diagrams are quite explanatory by themselves! Good stuff. Take a look, and - if possible - a read.
    
11. The 1.5 version of the Cloud Foundry integration for Eclipse, which supports pushing applications to Pivotal Cloud Foundry organizations and spaces, using new Cloud Foundry services, and incrementally updating applications from Spring Tool Suite. The new integration may be installed from the STS dashboard or using the update site in the Help > Install New Software menu.

Welcome back to another installment of This Week in Spring. On August 1, I celebrated my third year at SpringSource. I continue to enjoy the ride of my life and a huge part of that is my interaction with you, the most amazing community ever. Thanks for that, folks.

Have you booked your tickets for SpringOne2GX? This year's show is a special one. In my work as the Spring Developer Advocate, I speak at many conferences all around the world. Ask any developer with a pulse, and they'll confirm that big data (and Hadoop), reactive web applications, REST, mobile application development, and cloud computing are sizzling hot topics today. Pivotal, and Spring, support today's developers, and SpringOne2GX's agenda represents in my estimation the perfect blend of content for today's developers. Check out the agenda. We've just recently added talks on big data, and REST service security with OAuth. This will be our first show under Pivotal, and it's the only place where you can talk to the developers working on the technologies you care about both at SpringSource and in the community. As you know, we've just announced our Cloud Foundry conference, Platform, and SpringOne2GX full pass ticket holders may register for that show - which is at the same venue as SpringOne2GX just two days earlier - for free! If I had to pay for just one show a year, this would be that show. Hurry the early bird rate expires this friday!

1. Major news: Phil Webb and Dr. David Syer have just announced Spring Boot, which simplifies Spring application development. Spring Boot provides an opinionated layer on top of Spring and in so doing makes it dead simple to get an application up and running with a minimum of fuss. Seriously, this stuff will blow your mind. Do not read any further until you've read this short and sweet post! Give it a go and be sure to let us know about your experiences!
2. Spring Framework 3.2.4 maintenance release is now available, with an important security fix for SpringOXM..
3. Spring Data Redis-lead and ninja Jennifer Hickey just announced the availability of two Spring Data releases. Spring Data Redis 1.1, M2, featuring a lot of new features, including enhanced data pipelining, Redis 2.6 scripting, and more. Spring Data Redis 1.0.6 is also available, and features bug fixes and smaller improvements.
4. Spring Mobile and Android lead Roy Clarkson just announced Spring Mobile 1.1.0.RC1, which features improvements to device detection and view resolution in Spring Mobile. Roy also announced a new cut of the stable line of Spring Mobile, 1.0.2, which features similar improvements, some backported.
5. Spring Data ninja Oliver Gierke has just announced that the final release candidate for Spring Data Babbage is now available. This release is named for Charles Babbage. This release features support for the MongoDB Aggregation Framework and improved the execution of polymorphic queries, support to use SpEL expressions in manually defined queries with JPA, improved handling of entities using @IdClass, a countBy(..) method for Neo4j repositories, and much more.
6. The replay for the webinars Functional Programming without Lamba and Spring with Cucumber for Automation are now available online. Be sure to check them out!
7. A few weeks ago, our friend Johnathan Mark Smith put together a video introducing how to use Spring Data MongoDB and Java configuration. Check it out! And, if you're doing awesome videos, feel free to share. I'd love to post them on This Week in Spring, too!
8. I smiled when I saw a tweet by the Reactor project lead Jonathan Brisbin in which he says, "Processor throughput: 90M ops/sec on a laptop. 1 thread + @LMAX Disruptor. Not #fastdata, #uberfastdata" and then links to a test case in the code. Needless to say, Reactor is going to shake things up big time! (And, of course, we'll have more content on Reactor at SpringOne2GX.
9. The latest release of Tomcat, Apache Tomcat 8.0.0-RC1 (alpha), is now available! There are a lot of new features. Notably, Tomcat 8 will be the first Tomcat to support JSR 356, web sockets. This is the perfect compliment to Spring 4's recently announced web socket support.
10. Mohan Srihari Kantipudi has put together a nice post on Spring's basic REST capabilities
11. I liked Gregor Riegler's post on Spring Loaded, the best kept secret in open source. Spring Loaded is a Java agent that lets you reload code as you're working on it (no need to redeploy!). This is a very cool post and I hope you'll consider using Spring Loaded, too.

Welcome back to another installment of This Week in Spring! As usual, we've got a lot to cover so let's get to it. Don't forget that SpringOne 2GX 2013 early bird expires August 9th, so hurry to secure the discounted rate!

1. Spring framework committer Rossen Stoyanchev has a great post on Spring Framework 4.0 M2's support for WebSocket Messaging Architectures.
2. Spring Shell lead Dr. Mark Pollack has announced that Spring Shell 1.0.1.M1 has just been released.
3. Spring Batch 2.2.1.RELEASE is now available. This release is mostly bug fixes and documentation improvements.
4. I don't know if you've been following along, but we're starting to really flesh out the SpringOne2GX 2013 schedule! I'm looking forward to both seeing, and presenting, at many different talks this year. One talk I'd like to see is Thymeleaf: improving your Spring view layer with natural templates. I expect this year will be a very exciting year for a number of reasons, and I hope you'll share the experience with us.
5. We've added some more SpringOne talks recently:
   
   • Spring and Web Content Management
   • Spring Data Community Lightning Talks
   • Application Security Pitfalls
   • Hadoop - Just the Basics for Big Data Rookies
   • Spring Integration Internals
6. Our pal Tobias Flohre has put together a nice post comparing how the JSR 352 API compares to the Spring Batch. Spring Batch 3.0 will be fully JSR 352 API compliant this fall by SpringOne, but was the inspiration for the JSR in the first place -- Spring Batch 1.0 was released in 2008 and has been gathering steam ever since.
7. Want to learn more about Spring Scala? Watch Spring Scala lead talk about it at ScalaDays New York.
8. As I mentioned last week, you'd do well to also follow This Week in Cloud Foundry, which has a lot of great content following last week's large announcement of a partnership between Pivotal and IBM.
   
9. The Reactor project lead by John Brisbin has just announced support for a @EnableReactor annotation for Spring Java configuration.
10. ..Speaking of Thymeleaf (the open source, Spring MVC, HTML5 and Tiles-friendly view and templating engine), version 2.1 will have parameterizable fragments. Do you want to test them? Try the 2.1.0-SNAPSHOT version when specifying your Maven repository-compatible coordinates.
11. Our friend Johnathan Mark Smith is at it again, this time with a video on using Spring Data MongoDB. Definitely worth a look.
12. Check out a webinar next month taming coupling & cohesive problems with modularity and Spring with Param Rengaiah.

Hey everyone! Remember that SpringOne 2GX 2013 early bird expires August 9th, so hurry to secure the discounted rate! Also, make sure to check the agenda as new sessions have been added. This week I'm at OSCON talking to developers in the wonderful city of Portland, OR about Spring 4, REST and joining my colleagues at Pivotal to talk about Cloud Foundry, big data, and much more! If you'd like to chat, I hope you'll come to the talks that we're putting on and visit us at the Pivotal booth in the exhibition hall! It's been a big week for both Spring and Pivotal:

1. Pivotal HD 1.0, the world's fastest Hadoop distribution, was released in two flavors - Community Edition, and a Pivotal Single Node Edition (VM), a Virtual Machine download. Head over to gopivotal.com and give it a test drive - Community Edition deploys up to a 50 node cluster!
2. We're celebrating Project Reactor's initial milestone release - 1.0.0M1 - which already benchmarked TCP on Netty at 300% faster than Netty alone! When integrated into key Spring technologies, the possibilities of Fast Data are going to blow people's hair back. Congrats to Jon Brisbin!
3. Spring Data Arora Service Release 2 is available for download.
4. Martin Lippert published an excellent blog on Annotations and Java Config support that are available in Spring Tool Suite 3.3.0. Support of JavaConfig as an XML alternative across the Spring ecosystem is nearing a pervasive level.
5. Join Hemant Joshi as he introduces how to use Spring and the Cucumber BDD testing framework in a webinar on July 30th, 2013.
6. Hadoop hungry? Join us for a Webinar series -- “What You Can Do with Hadoop” on the first Thursday of every month. The first webinar on August 1st, 2013 will provide in-depth details about the features and tutorials included in the Pivotal HD Single Node (VM).
   • Register today for the 9 AM PT session
   • Register today for the 7 PM session
7. My buddy Andy Piper (@andypiper) puts together a wonderful roundup of Cloud Foundry called This Week in Cloud Foundry. I can't recommend it enough! He just started, and he's doing a heckuva job!
8. The Zenika blog has a very nice post on how to document a REST API with Swagger, which you can transparently layer on top of your Spring MVC API.
9. Matt Stine also has a great post on Spring, Continuous Integration and CloudFoundry.
10. The JavaCode Geeks blog has a nice post on how to add validation to a REST API
11. The Pivotal blog has a really great post on how Tomcat compares to Pivotal's tcServer, a binary-compatible distribution of Tomcat that we support and augment for deployment
12. Also on the Pivotal blog, a fantastic post on how Spring Data GemFire (and GemFire) can really boost your application's performance!
13. Xavier Padró's has a really nice introduction to messaging with Spring
14. This week at OSCON, I found affixed to all the bulletin boards and on the entry-doors into the conference a notice advertising a hackathon being run by inBloom, which is a nonprofit data and content services company working to support school districts as they implement great personalized learning tools for kids, teachers, and parents. inBloom is sponsoring a 2-day hackathon at OSCON to work on their open source content services. Check out the projects and the code! I really enjoyed meeting these fine people and encourage any Spring ninjas out there to raise your hands and contribute!
    

Welcome back to another installation of This Week in Spring. We've got a lot to cover, as usual, so let's get right to it! This week I'm at SenchaCon, talking to developers about building RESTful applications and clients, and then I'm off to OSCON next week, where I'll be hosting the Spring BOF, giving a talk on the latest and greatest in Spring 4, and helping to man the Pivotal booth. If you're at SenchaCon or OSCON, don't hesitate to ping me and we can talk Spring, Cloud Foundry, big-data, and more!

1. SpringOne 2GX 2013 early bird expires soon, register now to secure the discounted rate!
2. Spring Data ninja Thomas Risberg has announced that Spring For Apache Hadoop 1.0.1.RC1 has been released. The new release supports Hadoop 2.0 and Pivotal HD, among other things.
3. Tool Suite ninja and lead Martin Lippert has announced that Spring Tool Suite And Groovy/Grails Tool Suite 3.3.0 have been released. Very nice!
4. Gary Russell has announced that Spring AMQP 1.2.0 has been released. Check out the What's New for details.
5. Join Mattias Severson & Johan Haleby and learn about Functional Programming without Lambdas on July 18, 2013
6. Join Hemant Joshi as he introduces how to use Spring and the Cucumber BDD testing framework in a webinar on July 30th, 2013.
7. Our friends at Skills Matter are throwing a Spring-centric conference (the Spring Exchange) in London on November 14 and November 15. There are some killer speakers, and I highly encourage you to make it, if you can.
8. Are you using Spring Social in the wild? We want to hear about it!
9. Spring Security lead and ninja Rob Winch has put together a very nice post on readability when using Spring Security Java configuration.
10. A new "Quick Search" is included in Spring ToolSuite (STS) 3.3.0 and Groovy Grails Tool Suite (GGTS) 3.3.0 which have just been released. Kris De Volder, a senior developer on the Spring and Groovy and Grails Tool Suites, has just put together a nice post on this new feature.
11. Our friend Johnathan Mark Smith is at it again! This time, he's written a post, How to use Fongo and nosql unit to test Spring Data project with MongoDB, JUnit, Log4J. Check it out!
12. Wow! Amir Kibbar, at the HP Software Developer's blog, has put together a really comprehensive look at how to develop a service tier, build a web tier, and then test both. The first post on setting up a service tier, the second is an example of refining the service tier and testing it, the third post introduces how to setup a REST endpoint, and the fourth post talks about testing the REST service. Definitely worth a read (and a bookmark!) It's possible to do everything demonstrated in these posts using straight Java configuration, also…
13. Igor Artamonov has a nice, abbreviated post on how to build a RESTful endpoint with Spring.
14. Our friend at the Baeldung blog has put together a very nice post on how to use digest authentication with Spring Security.

Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring. There's a lot of good stuff this week, including content on Apache Tomcat, Spring Security's new Java configuration updates, Spring Batch's Java configuration support, and so much more! We're fast approaching the August price increase for SpringOne2GX 2013 so register now and lock in the lower rate. Ok -- Let's get to it!

1. Craig Walls has announced that Spring Social 1.1.0.M3 (including revs to Spring Social, Spring Social Facebook, and Spring Social Twitter) is now available. The new release has a lot of compelling features including a new ReconnectFilter, support for OAuth 2's 'state' parameter to prevent CSRF attacks, and initial support for Twitter's streaming API.
2. Spring Security lead Rob Winch never sleeps. Also, he's just put together several very interesting posts on the brand new Spring Security Java configuration support. He starts the series with an introductory post. The second post covers the details of method-level security (fine-grained access control at the level of individual method invocations). The third post covers the details of web-based security (intercepting HTTP requests). The last post looks at how to use Java configuration to configure Spring Security OAuth. These posts are definitely worth a read! If you love these posts as much as I do, would you please upvote them on DZone?
3. Have you guys been following Spring XD's development? It's really coming along nicely! One thing that caught my eye recently? The amazing Andy Clement, designer and implementer of the amazing Spring Expression Language (SpEL), and a major contributor to the amazing tooling in the Spring Tool Suite and Grails Tool Suite, is now putting his amazing talents to work building a DSL for Spring XD jobs. To learn more, and to feedback on use cases that might be valuable to you, check out the JIRA.
4. Upcoming Webinar: Join Mattias Severson & Johan Haleby on July 18th for a talk on Functional Programming without Lambdas.
5. Upcoming Webinar: Join Hemant Joshi on July 30th for a talk on Spring with Cucumber for Automation.
6. The replay of last week's webinar, Resistance Is Not Futile: How To Talk Spring And Influence People, is now available on the SpringSourceDev YouTube channel! This webinar provides soft-skills required to help introduce the Spring framework in your organization.
7. Petri Kainulainen is back at it, this time with a post on to unit test regular Spring MVC @Controllers.
8. News for Groovy & Grails, SpringSource changed the 3-day class to a new 4-day developer class. The first opportunity to attend will be Groovy & Grails in San Francisco.
9. Tobias Flohre is back at it again! The last two parts of his awesome series Spring Batch Java Configuration are available. The first post has to do with modular configuration with Java configuration. The second post has to do with job partitioning and multi-threaded steps
10. Apache Tomcat ninja Mark Thomas has announced the release of Apache Tomcat 7.0.42, which contains a number of bug fixes and improvements compared to version 7.0.41.
11. Stuart Williams (or @pidster, to those who know him) has recently put together a nice Spring Shell-powered console for working with MQTT messaging systems. Spring Integration also features nice support for MQTT in the Spring Integration Extensions repository.
12. Speaking of Apache Tomcat, did you guys see Mark Thomas' presentation introducing some of the upcoming Apache Tomcat 8 from last year?

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. Spring and Cloud Foundry ninja Jennifer Hickey has announced the availability of Spring Data Redis 1.1 M1 and 1.0.5. Check it out!
2. Spring Security lead (and ninja) Rob Winch has announced the initial availability of the Spring Security Java configuration support. Rob also just posted a very nice post (the first of four) on the new Spring Security Java configuration support. The first post addresses where you can find the new Spring Security Java configuration support.
3. Join us on July 18th for the webinar, "Functional Programming without Lambas" which introduces ways to use functional programing in Java right now (instead of waiting for Java 8!) using Guava, LambaJ, and Functional Java.
4. Corby Page has written a very nice post on ways to extend your REST APIs ability with his project, Yoga. In particular, it supports something called a selector which can be used to extract sub-views of the REST response to be sent back to the client. This can also be used to support what Lez Hazelwood aptly describes as entity expansions.
5. The Crunchify blog has a nice post on how to upload multiple files with Spring MVC.
   
6. SpringSource has added a new Live Online Core Spring class to the schedule for September .
   
7. The Spring LDAP project has gone social and moved to GitHub!
8. Our pal XueFeng Ding (who you may remember helped put together the blog "Spring at China Scala") has just recently given a very nice presentation on building REST APIs with Spring. I think his deck's pretty cool, so check it out!
9. Sergey Shcherbakov recently gave a nice talk introducing a whole slew of cool things. I think his sample code is particularly worth a look. The code features Spring 4 WebSockets, XML-less Spring Batch, Reactor and AngularJS examples. Nice job, Sergey!
10. Johnathan Mark Smith has put together a nice blog on how to use Spring Data with MongoDB. Nice job!
11. Nicolas Frankel has put together a very nice post on some of the compelling features in Spring 3.2. Nice job, Nicolas!
12. Nick Williams submitted a pull-request to support using Java configuration with Spring WS's MessageDispatcherServlet so that it can be configured within a ServletContextListener or a ServletContainerInitializer. Nice job, Nick!
13. This is not specific to Spring, or Spring Batch, per-se, but the Technology AMIS blog has an interesting look at how to use the Batch JSR (which is based on Spring Batch, and designed in cooperation with the Spring Batch team) to build a download manager. (Don't worry, you don't have to use GlassFish to work with the Batch JSR!) Pretty cool! If you know Spring Batch, then a lot of this will look familiar and, as Spring Batch will also implement the JSR, should prove a very nice on-ramp for anyone who wants to use Spring Batch in the future.

Welcome back to another installment of This Week in Spring. As usual, we've got a lot to cover. In particular, you'll note that this week's roundup features a lot of great Spring Batch content. So, let's get to it -- and don't forget the SpringOne2GX early bird rate ends Aug 9th!

1. I did a webinar introducing how to build REST APIs with Spring's rich REST stack a few weeks ago, and I'm happy to report that the talk - which introduces Spring MVC, Spring HATEOAS, Spring REST Shell, Spring Data REST, Spring Security OAuth and Spring Social in terms of a simple sample application that we refine - is now available on the SpringSourceDev YouTube Channel. As I mentioned last week, the slides are available on my SlideShare.net page and the code is available on my GitHub page. Enjoy, and don't hesitate to feedback/ask questions at josh(dot)long(at)SpringSource(dot)com!
2. InfoQ has a great post introducing JSR 352, the Java Batch specification. If you're a Spring Batch user, then a lot of this will look very familiar! I think this is a particularly nice JSR, and encourage you to check it out. Spring
3. Chris Schaefer has put together a brilliant Spring Batch refcard for DZone which went up yesterday, head over to DZone for the free download.
4. Craig Walls has announced that Spring Social Facebook 1.0.3 is now available. The new release addresses breaking changes in the upcoming Facebook API revision.
5. Gary Russell has announced that Spring AMQP 1.2.0 release candidate is now available. The new release features many improvements and bug fixes.
6. Johnathan Mark Smith is back at it again, with a blog on RESTTemplate To Post Data to a Web Service. Nice work Jonathan!
7. This week SpringSource is offering a four-day Groovy & Grails class in San Francisco, check it out here
8. Our pal Tobias Flohre is back with the 4th installment of his series introducing Java configuration with Spring Batch.
9. Leleu Jérôme has released a Spring Security Pac4J client. It has OAuth with providers, OpenID, CAS, and HTTP.
10. Are you a Spring Champion? Enter to win a free SpringOne2GX 2013 pass!
    
11. Vamsi Kancharla put together a nice sample project with Spring MVC, bean-validation, error handling (using @ControllerAdvice), protection against XSS and input form attacks, and a lot more. Check it out!
12. Kim Saabye Pedersen put together a nice post reinforcing some useful (and hopefully well-understood!) principles of singletons in Spring.
13. Hantsy Bai has put together a very nice post explaining how to create a Spring project from the Spring Tool Suite.

Welcome back to another installation of This Week in Spring! What a week! We're fast approaching the final stretch of the journey to SpringOne2GX 2013 and preparations are underway at full tilt. This year's going to be memorable. I wish I could tell you more, but trust me when I say you need to be at this show this year! :)

Anyway, let's get on with the roundup!

1. Mark Pollack has announced the release of Spring XD 1.0 milestone 1. Spring XD is a unified, distributed, and extensible system for data ingestion, real time analytics, batch processing, and data export. The project’s goal is to simplify the development of big data applications.
2. Join Tony Erksine from Liberty University on June 27th as he instructs us How to talk Spring and Influence People, a pragmatic lesson on soft skills and technology adoption strategies needed to help get other people in your company excited about and using, new technology -- in this case, with Spring.
3. Want a pass to SpringOne 2GX 2013? If you're a Spring champion, show off your stuff on our champions forum and follow these instructions by June 21, 2013. You might be one of our 5 lucky winners! (If you're a Groovy & Grails or Cloud Foundry champion, never fear, we will be rolling out future contests for you!)
4. Head over to gopivotal.com for the next blog in the Hadoop 101 series -- How to Use Spring Batch with Spring for Apache Hadoop.
5. We're excited to launch A Week of Spring in conjunction with Manning Publications. Check out this post for more information on great discounts for titles covering SpringSource technologies! Every day we're posting a new 50% discount code for two books.
6. Our pal Tobias Fiohre is back at it again, this time with not one, not two, but three posts on Java configuration support for Spring Batch, just released in the latest Spring Batch 2.2.0.RELEASE of Spring Batch. The first post looks at how Spring Batch's Java configuration support compares with the XML equivalents. The second post looks at the Spring Batch StepScope, which lets you configure jobs with parameters provided at runtime (as opposed to design-time. The third post looks at how to use the new configuration style with Spring's environment profiles feature.
   
7. Johnathan Mark Smith has put together a post on how use Spring MVC and Spring MVC Test
   
8. Xavier Padró's has put together a nice post that introduces Spring's core Aspect-Oriented Programming support.
   
9. The video replay of the webinar from the Broadleaf Commerce project on their migration from GWT to Spring MVC is now online at our SpringSourceDev YouTube channel.
10. This isn't strictly Spring-related, but I felt it worth mentioning: Java 9 is slated to drop support for compiling Java 1.4-or-older source code. Java 8 is approaching (finally!), and Spring 4 will offer first class support for Java 8 lambas. Java 6 is EOL as of February 2013, so if you're not already on Java 7, consider just making the jump to Java 8 when it drops early next year. If you're migrating right now, definitely consider looking at Java 7 at a minimum. Spring, of course, works well with older JDK versions, but we often provide functionality specific to newer language releases if they're available. For example, we debuted annotations (like @Transactional) when Java 5 made it feasible, as an addition to our then primary support for commons annotations, even while we supported Java 1.3 and 1.4. Java 8 is no different.
11. I did a webinar last week on building REST APIs with Spring. The webinar video will be up soon on our SpringSource Developer YouTube channel. For the many who've asked, the code is available on my GitHub account, and the slides are available on my SlideShare account. Check them out!
    
12. Petri Kainulainen has put together a really detailed, easily-read post on how to plugin a property from a property file when configuring the @Scheduled annotation's CRON expression
    

Hey guys, welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This week I'm in New York City, New York, talking to developers at the NYC Java Meetup and at ScalaDays about Spring. We've got a lot of webinars this month, so be sure to check out the details below!

1. Want a pass to SpringOne 2GX 2013? If you're a Spring champion, show off your stuff on our champions forum and follow these instructions by June 21, 2013. You might be one of our 5 lucky winners! (If you're a Groovy & Grails or Cloud Foundry champion, never fear, we will be rolling out future contests for you!)
2. Oliver Gierke has announced Spring Data Babbage, the first milestone of the next Spring Data release train. This release includes a lot of new features, so be sure to check out the release note!
3. Spring Batch 2.2.0 is now available! This is a major release that supports Spring Data, Java Configuration, AMQP, and SQLFire in addition to a number of other features. Spring Batch and our participation in the expert group has heavily informed the JSR-352 specification that recently has been finalized.
4. Spring Tool Suite and Groovy / Grails Toool Suite 3.3.0 M2 has been released, based on Eclipse Kepler 4.3. This milestone release improves Java Configuration support and is Spring Framework 4 ready.
5. Craig Walls has announced that Spring Social Twitter 1.0.5 and Spring Social 1.0.3 have been released! The new release fixes a few bugs and is being made available in anticipation of the deprecation of the 1.0 version of the Twitter API.
6. Gary Russell has also announced the Spring Integration 2.2.4 and 2.1.6 maintenance releases, to incorporate the Spring Social Twitter updates mentioned above.
7. I'll be doing a webinar on Thursday on RESTful service design with Spring. As usual, there will be two sessions - one at 3PM GMT and one at 10:00AM PST - to accommodate as many timezones as possible. The webinar will introduce Spring's stack for building RESTful services. We'll start with a simple API, then advance the API, introducing Hypermedia controls with Spring HATEOAS, introducing conventions-oriented repository-based APIs with Spring Data REST, security with Spring Security OAuth and Spring Social and addressing common cases like file uploads, exception handling, record paging, and Ajax. I look forward to seeing you there!
8. Don't miss Jon Brisbin on June 18th, 2013 as he introduces Introducing Reactor - A framework for asynchronous applications on the JVM. Reactor provides a foundational framework for applications that need high throughput when performing reasonably small chunks of stateless, asynchronous processing.
9. Join Tony Erksine from Liberty University on June 27th as he instructs us How to talk Spring and Influence People, a pragmatic lesson on soft skills and technology adoption strategies needed to help get other developers in your company excited about,a nd using, new technology -- in this case, with Spring.
10. I gave a talk on the latest at the amazing DevNexus conference in March on Spring 3.1, 3.2, and 4.0 in March, and that talk is now available online on InfoQ. Do check out the talk, but also be sure to check out the more up-to-date version of that deck from my talk at JAXConf available on my SlideShare account.
11. Head over to the Pivotal Blog for a short primer on Hadoop programming, which walks you through a simple word count program. The example looks at the canonical word-count problem and then looks at other solutions in the ecosystem like Pig, Hive and Cascading. The next blog in the series will introduce Spring for Apache Hadoop for a beginning audience, providing a unified, consistent alternative to the four different methods discussed in this blog post.
12. In related news, if you're in the New York City area, join me Wednesday evening where I'm giving the same talk at the 10gen offices for the NYCJava meetup. Thanks again go to 10gen, the company behind MongoDB, for hosting the meetup.
13. The JavaBeat blog has a nice post on how to use Spring's robust multipart file upload support. Spring's support abstracts away common APIs for file uploads - including the commons-fileupload API and the Servlet 3 API - and lets you use those APIs for HTTP miltipart-encoded file uploads, typically in web applications or REST services. Definitely worth a read, check it out!
14. Idan Fridman put together a rundown on some of the common types of components in Spring Integration, including splitters, transformers, aggregators, and more.
15. For those of you who are looking to take your Spring skills to a new level of expertise, SpringSource has just released the Professional Spring Training Schedule for July 2013
16. The Spring tutorials blog has a great post introduce Spring's @Async and @Scheduled annotations.