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Learn moreWelcome back to another installment of This Week in Spring. This week, I'm at JAX in San Francisco. We're having a good time, and happily answering questions from community members. As usual, though, we've got a lot to cover, so let's get on with the show.
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<LI> Rob Winch has announced that <A href = "http://www.springsource.org/node/3588">Spring Security 3.1.1 has been released! </A>
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<LI> Costin Leau has announced that <A href = "http://www.springsource.org/node/3588">Spring GemFire 1.1.2 has been released! </A>
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<LI> The Tech Annotation page has a great post on using some of <a href = "http://techannotation.wordpress.com/2012/07/05/remoting-spring-rmi-and-http/">Spring's remoting technologies, RMI and HTTP invoker, to expose objects to remote clients</A>. </LI>
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Chris Haddad has put together a nice article <a HREF = "http://cloud.dzone.com/articles/how-deploy-spring-database">on using
Spring on Cloud Foundry</A>.
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The Enterprise Development Ideas blog has a nice article <a href ="http://pfelitti87.blogspot.com/2012/07/rest-services-with-spring-3-xml-json.html"> on using Spring 3.1 to build RESTful services that support JSON and XML</A>.
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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!
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Would you like a sneak peak at how a master structures his application? Let
<a href = "http://gordondickens.com/wordpress/2012/07/03/enterprise-spring-best-practices-part-1-project-config/"> Gordon Dickens explain how he configures his application</A>.
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<LI> The <EM>Code Tips and Tricks</em> blog has a nice post on using <a href = "http://lessonsincode.wordpress.com/2012/07/10/explicitly-defining-a-spring-mvc-annotation-based-controller/">Spring MVC without using the default Spring component scanning in place</A>.
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<LI> This VMware knowledge base article has a rather interesting tip that shows how to
<a href = "http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=2007015"> ask the Spring <CODE>ApplicationContext</CODE> which configuration resources are being used.
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<LI>This blog has a great look at customizing <a href = "http://thinkinginsoftware.blogspot.com/2012/07/round-half-up-using-annotation-driven.html"> formatting for Spring MVC with the use of a custom formatter</A>. </LI>
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Peng Fei Xu has a quick <a href ="http://s-xu.blogspot.com/2012/07/spring-framework-annotation-part-3.html">introduction to using Spring's Java configuration</A>.
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This blog has a <a HREF = "http://techforenterprise.blogspot.com/2012/07/handling-forms-with-spring-3-mvc.html">nice introduction to handling Forms with Spring 3 MVC</A>
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<LI> The Apache Tomcat team has announced <a href = "http://www.tomcatexpert.com/blog/2012/07/09/apache-tomcat-7029-released">the immediate availability of Apache Tomcat 7.0.29</A>.
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