Wow! Another week's come and gone, and, as usual, a lot of great content's been created for the community, and often by the community. Let's get to it!

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	<LI> First, the big news: <a href ="http://www.springsource.org/node/3476">Spring Framework 3.1.1's Been Released</A>!  
	 
	   The first maintenance release in the Spring 3.1.x line is now available via Maven Central, the <a href="http://repo.springsource.org/release">SpringSource repository</a>, or for direct download from our <a target="_blank" href="http://www.springsource.com/download/community?project=Spring%20Framework&amp;version=3.1.1.RELEASE">community download page</a>.  This release includes many <a href="https://jira.springsource.org/secure/ReleaseNote.jspa?projectId=1000…

Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring . As usual, a lot to look at, so let's get to it.

<LI> The <a href="http://www.springsource.org/spring-mobile/news/1.0.0.rc1-released" target="_blank">1.0.0.RC1 version of Spring Mobile</a> has just been released. Spring Mobile provides an integration API that makes it easier for Spring MVC applications to build mobile client-specific applications.
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<LI> Chris Richardson&#39;s talk, <a href="http://www.springsource.org/node/3463" target="_blank"><EM>Polyglot Persistence for Java Developers</EM></a>, has just been released. This is another great talk from SpringOne2GX, and  a good watch for anybody who wants a look at how to exploit…

Welcome back to another installment of This Week in Spring.

 Seems like we were just staring down the holiday season a minute ago, doesn't it? Here we are a month on into the new year, already. Time sure does fly. 

We've got lots of exciting new content, and a lot of it is either videos or full texts that you can read, be sure to skim through this roundup and then find yourself a nice cozy chair to absorb the rest of it and enjoy!

1. Spring.NET Social 1.0.0 Has Been Released! Hot on the heels of Spring Social 1.0 (for Java)'s release late last year, Spring.NET Social 1.0.0 has been released with the foundation API as well as API implementations for Dropbox, LinkedIn and Twitter.

<LI>Speaking of Spring Social, <A href = "http://www.springone2gx.com/conference/speaker/craig_walls">Craig Walls</a>' SpringOne2GX talk,  <a href ="http://www.springsource.org/node/3380">The Rise of OAuth</A>,
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SpringOne 2GX 2011 was filled with great content on building better mobile and web applications. In this presentation, Mobile Web Development with HTML5, we get to learn about building compelling mobile applications with HTML5 and technologies like PhoneGap.

This presentation is given by Spring Android lead and mobile expert Roy Clarkson and Spring Developer Advocate Josh Long.

Roy and Josh introduce the innate capabilities of modern HTML 5 mobile browsers and introduce techniques and technologies
like PhoneGap, a shell for web applications on mobile clients, and Jo, a widget framework,
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Dear Spring Community,

We are pleased to announce that Spring.NET Social 1.0.0 (as well as adapters for the Dropbox API and the Twitter API) is now available (and LinkedIn API support is in progress!).

Spring Social is an extension of the Spring Framework that helps you connect your applications with Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) providers such as Twitter, Facebook, Dropbox, and more! It offers an extensible service provider framework (including support for OAuth1 and OAuth2) that greatly simplifies the process of connecting local user accounts to hosted provider accounts.

Spring.NET Social supports the following runtime environments:

• .NET 2.0
• .NET Client Profile 3.5 and 4.0
• Silverlight 4.0 and 5.0
• Windows Phone 7.0 and 7.1

Spring.NET Social Home Page
Spring.NET Social Twitter API Support Home Page
Spring.NET Social Dropbox API Support Home Page
Spring.NET Social LinkedIn API Support (pre-release) Home Page

Want to contribute? There's a rich universe of Social platforms for which Spring.NET Social support can be easily extended and we're actively looking for community contributors interested in adding projects to support Facebook, TripIt, GitHub, and many more!

These projects are hosted at GitHub:

• Spring.NET Social
• Spring.NET Social Twitter API Support
• Spring.NET Social Dropbox API Support
• Spring.NET Social LinkedIn API Support

As always, we encourage feedback from the community on this and all aspects of Spring.NET!

By Jason Weathersby and Josh Long

Introduction

Eclipse’s Business Intelligence and Reporting Tools (BIRT) project is an open-source project based on the popular Eclipse IDE. The BIRT project had its first major release in the summer of 2005 and has garnered over ten million downloads since its inception. The project was started by Actuate Corporation which uses BIRT as the basis for many of its commercial products. The BIRT project's site includes an introduction, tutorials, downloads, and examples of using BIRT.

Developers use BIRT to build and deploy reports in a Java/Java EE environment. In BIRT 3.7, a new POJO-based runtime environment is available that makes deployment of the BIRT engine much simpler. This article discusses several BIRT integration scenarios that use components from the Spring Framework.

Figure 1 – BIRT Collage

The BIRT project includes the following key components:

• BIRT Designer - The developer tool used to design reports.
• Web Viewer - A sample Java web application used to deploy reports. This viewer contains a JSP-tag library that facilitates integration with existing web applications.
• BIRT Engines - The Design and Report engines used to construct, run, and render a BIRT report.
• BIRT Charts - A package that supports building and running highly sophisticated interactive charts.

The Spring framework is a popular collection of architectural and implementation approaches that makes enterprise Java development easier. Core parts of this framework are Dependency Injection and…

SpringOne 2GX 2011 was filled with great content on building better web applications. In this presentation, The Rise of OAuth, we get to learn about using OAuth in our web applications. This presentation is given by Spring expert Craig Walls.

Craig talks about securing the modern web and how OAuth can help with that, showing how to secure and consume resources with OAuth.

Many thanks to InfoQ for coming to Chicago to record so many of the fantastic SpringOne 2GX presentations.

Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring .

We are already almost done with January (which, honestly, shocks me. Where <EM>does</EM> the time go?)
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	<LI> Did you guys see last week's webinar introducing Spring 3.1 with Spring project lead, and VMWare/SpringSource Principal Engineer, Juergen Hoeller?  
       Last week's webinar was <EM>very</EM> well-attended, and represents the best turnout yet, by far, for all of the SpringSource webinars. So, thanks to all those who came, and, to the handful of people on earth that couldn't make it, don't worry! You can watch 

the Spring 3.1 webinar's recording on the SpringSource YouTube page…

In this video Juergen Hoeller, SpringSource Principal Engineer for the Spring Framework gives a guided tour of the newest features in the Spring 3.1 release. Juergen introduces Spring's new capabilities, including the environment abstraction, profiles, the updated Spring MVC framework, Hibernate 4 and Quartz 2 support, and much, much more.

Be sure to thumbs up the presentation if you find it useful and subscribe to the SpringSourceDev channel to receive updates about all the latest presentation recordings and screencasts.

Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring. We've got a lot of good content to look at this week, so let's get on with it.

1. Pssst. What are you guys doing this Thursday, the 19th? If you haven't already, may I suggest you register for the Spring 3.1 webinar with Juergen Hoeller and Chris Beams?

   		If you're in Europe,  there's going to be a  webinar  at <a href = "https://vmwareevents.webex.com/vmwareevents/onstage/g.php?t=a&d=663415641">3PM GMT, or 4PM CEST</a>, and if you're in North America, there's going to be a webinar at <a href = "https://vmwareevents.webex.com/vmwareevents/onstage/g.php?t=a&d=668718779">1PM EST or 10AM PST</a>. 
   		 Don't be left out, this event's already seen the highest registration of any webinar thus far, so register now, and as usual, I hope to see you there. 
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   	<LI> Another session from SpringOne2GX, on <a href = "http://www.springsource.org…