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. 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! set the Locale of internationalized messages through an HTTP request.

Did you guys miss JAX, in San Francisco, this week? The talks that Chris Richardson and I have, and will, give are going to be online next week, but this week you should check out the presentation on using Spring MVC and Backbone.js together by Sebastiano Armeli-Battana, a community member who also spoke this week. Nice job, Sebastiano! Also: be sure to check out the code!

basic performance monitoring. The VoltDB blog has a pretty nice writeup of how to implement repositories with Spring and VoltDB to build high throughput web applications.

As usual, though, the internet has given us a lot of great content to look at this last week, so let's dive right into the roundup!