Dear Spring Community,

I am pleased to announce that Spring Data MongoDB 1.0 RC1 is now available!

The primary goal of the Spring Data project is to provide a familiar and consistent Spring-based programming model for new datastores while retaining store-specific features and capabilities. The Spring Data MongoDB project provides integration with the MongoDB document database. Key functional areas are a POJO centric model for interacting with a MongoDB DBCollection and easily writing a Repository style data access layer.

This is primarily a bug fix release as we move quickly to GA but a few…

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Dear Spring Community,

We are pleased to announce that Spring .NET 1.3.0 is now available.  

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This release contains the following new major features:

• Micosoft Test Framework integration - Integration test classes to support MSTest in addition to NUnit.
• TIBCO EMS integration - Helper classes to increase your productivity developing messaging based applications with TIBCO EMS.
• NVelocity integration - Helper classes to configure a NVelocity template engine in a Spring based application
• VS.NET Solution Templates - VS.NET 2008 based…

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Dear Spring Community,

We are pleased to announce that Spring .NET 1.3.0 is now available.  

Download | Support | Documentation | Community

This release contains the following new major features:

• Micosoft Test Framework integration - Integration test classes to support MSTest in addition to NUnit.
• TIBCO EMS integration
  • Helper classes to increase your productivity developing messaging

  based applications with TIBCO EMS.

• NVelocity integration - Helper classes to configure a NVelocity template engine in a Spring based application
• VS.NET Solution Templates
  • VS.NET 2008 based solution templates to get you up and running
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We are pleased to announce that Spring for .NET 1.2.0 is now available.

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This release contains the following new major features:

• WCF integration - Configure WCF services using dependency injection. Apply AOP advice to WCF services.
• MSMQ integration - MSMQ helper classes to increase your productivity developing messaging applications. Provides integration with Spring's transaction management features.
• Apache ActiveMQ integration - Helper classes to increase your productivity developing messaging applications with ActiveMQ/NMS
• Quartz integration - Configure Quartz jobs, schedulers, triggers using dependency injection. Convenience classes for implementing Quartz Jobs.
• AOP- New inheritance based AOP proxy generation
• NHibernate 2.0.1 support.

This release includes approximately 100 bug fixes and enhancements since the 1.1.2 release.

Please refer to the changelog for additional details.

Enjoy!

We are pleased to announce that Spring .NET 1.2.0 RC1 has been released.
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This release contains the following features:

• WCF Integration - Configure WCF services using dependency injection. Apply AOP advice to WCF services.
• MSMQ integration - MSMQ helper classes to increase your productivity developing messaging applications. Provides integration with Spring's transaction management features.
• Apache ActiveMQ integration - Helper classes to increase your productivity developing messaging applications with ActiveMQ
• Quartz integration - Configure Quartz jobs, schedulers, triggers using dependency injection. Convenience classes for implementing Quartz Jobs and integration with Spring's transaction management features.
• AOP New inheritance based AOP proxy generation.
• Performance Improvements in WebForm dependency injection.
• NHibernate 2.0.1 support.

Other notable new features in 1.2.0 RC1

• Color code and XML listings in reference documentation.
• Introduction of sterotype attributes - for example [Repository] 
• WCF Service exporter.
• Extensible web navigation.
• New QuickStart applications are available for WCF, Quartz, MQMQ, and Apache Active MQ integration.

Support for TIBCO EMS, Websphere MQ, and Progress SonicMQ will be made available commerically.  Contact sales for more information.

Please refer to the changelog for additional details.

Enjoy!

The CommonServiceLocator project was released this week on CodePlex with the general idea of providing an IoC container agnostic API for resolving dependencies using Service Location. Erich Eichinger from SpringSource contributed the Spring.NET implementation, thanks Erich!

Here is the API so you get the basic idea public interface IServiceLocator : System.IServiceProvider {

object GetInstance(Type serviceType); object GetInstance(Type serviceType, string key); IEnumerable