Welcome back to another installation of This Week in Spring ! I've been visiting developers and companies in India, China, and Japan. It's been an exciting time to see what these emerging and powerful countries are doing with open source and with Spring, in particular! Of course, stay tuned to the SpringSource blog in the coming weeks some very cool examples and details!

In the meantime, as usual, we've got quite a bit of news to cover this week, including more news on the Spring 4 roadmap announcement from last week. If you want to get the absolute latest, check out the Spring 3.2 GA webinar replay on YouTube, where Spring Framework 4.0 is covered a bit toward the end. Let's get to it!

1. Charles Humble at InfoQ's done a nice interview with Juergen Hoeller and write up of the Spring 4 announcement .
2. The Spring Integration 2.2.1 and 2.1.5 maintenance releases are now generally available.

		<LI>Spring HATEOAS 0.4 was <a href="http://www.springsource.org/node/3796">released</a>, adding Jackson and HAL support.</LI>

3. Two new SpringOne 2GX 2012 Replays have been released to our YouTube Channel: Tooling for the Javascript Era, An Introduction to Broadleaf Commerce
4. We've launched a page to centralize all the SpringOne2GX 2012 recordings, check it out!
5. Chris Beams, Gunnar Hillert, and Rossen Stoyanchev were recorded in well-received presentation Introducing WebSockets at SpringOne2GX 2012, now online on InfoQ!
6. Blogger Ilias Tsagklis from the Java Code Geeks blog also has a nice post on the Spring 4.0 roadmap announcement.
7. Chris Beams has announced that Spring 3.1.4 has been released!
8. Marty Pitt has created a very nice extension - he's calling it BakeHouse- for Spring web applications that preprocesses web artifacts for consumption in your web application at application startup. There are various kinds of pre processing possible:
   • Less for your CSS
   • Concatenate and minify your Javascript
   • Maybe even use some Typescript or CoffeeScript, which needs to be compiled
   This is a very cool extension, Marty! It's like what I always wanted things like JAWR to be! The thing I most like about it, though? The fluid use of Spring Java @Configuration classes! Really slick and productive!
9. The Japanese portal Public Key has a nice writeup of the announced roadmap for Spring 4.0
10. The Just Enough Architecture blog has a nice post on using ActiveMQ, Spring Integration and MongoDB together - cool! I might've used Spring Batch's flat file reading support instead of a custom one out of the box, though, overall, this is an awesome post!
11. Blogger madhav has a nice look at the code to support table and class inheritance using Spring Data JPA. That said, it's really hard to read as the code is not indented at all!
12. Noushin Bashir has put together a nice post on how to configure ActiveMQ with SSL and then connect to it from Spring.

	<LI>  Allard Buijze over at Trifork has announced <a href= "http://blog.trifork.nl/2013/01/22/axon-framework-2-0-released/"> version 2.0 of…

The Groovy team is pleased to announce the release of Groovy 2.1.0.

With over 1.7 million downloads in 2012, a strong ecosystem of successful projects like Grails, Gradle, Spock or Griffon built on Groovy, the Groovy programming language continues its development and adoption, refines existing features and evolves new ones.

In this new release, Groovy 2.1:

• offers full support for the JDK 7 “invoke dynamic” bytecode instruction and API,
• goes beyond conventional static type checking capabilities with a special annotation to assist with documentation and type safety of Domain-Specific Languages and adds static type checker extensions,
• provides additional compilation customization options,
• features a meta-annotation facility for combining annotations elegantly,
• and provides various other enhancements and minor improvements.

Please read all the details about the new features and improvements in the Groovy 2.1 release notes document.

You can download Groovy 2.1.0 from the Download area, and have a look at the JIRA tickets we worked on.

The Groovy team is looking…

We recently released 0.3 of the Scripted Editor, and we are making fast progress towards our next release. One of the major goals of Scripted Editor 0.4 is extensibility and part of the extensibility story is a simple, extensible templating mechanism (the other part is a powerful plugin model, which will be described in a future blog post). In this post, I will introduce custom code completions and templates for the Scripted editor.

Sublime Text is an excellent, general purpose editor. It is highly configurable and many users of Scripted also use Sublime. Because of this, we want to make extensions to Sublime compatible with Scripted where it makes sense. One of these areas is sublime-completions files. These files specify lists of completions for a given content type (typically mapped to file…

Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! As usual, we've got a lot to cover, so let's get to it!

		  <LI> The future is now and it has a name and version - <EM>Spring 4.0</EM>. <a href="http://blog.springsource.org/2013/01/16/next-stop-spring-framework-4-0/">Juergen Hoeller outlined the proposed next iteration of Spring, Spring Framework 4.0</a>!  </LI>	
		
    <li>If you missed the live webinar of the Spring Framework 3.2 GA release, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fb5YG2W1srA">check out the replay</a>, which also has a brief discussion Spring Framework 4.0.</li>
    <li> Costin Leau has announced that <a href="http://www.springsource.org/node/3787">Spring for Apache Hadoop 1.…

 Welcome to another installment of <EM>This Week in Spring</EM>! Can you believe we're already halfway through January?  We've got a <EM>lot</EM> to cover, so let's press on!  In particular, there's a <EM>lot</EM> of great video content to keep you occupied for hours this week. Enjoy! 
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<li>Join Scott Andrews as he discusses the role of Javascript in an exciting webinar on  January 24, 2013: <a href="http://www.springsource.org/node/3767" title="Webinar: Architecture of a Modern Web App"> Architecture of a Modern Web App</a>.</li>
<LI>Join Brian Cavalier and John Hann as they…

Dear Spring community,

I'm happy to announce that the next iteration of the core framework will be Spring Framework 4.0!

The current 3.2 generation is a natural conclusion of the 3.x line, with Java-based configuration and REST having been recent focus areas next to Java SE 7 and Servlet 3.0 support.

For Spring Framework 4.0, our focus is on emerging enterprise themes in 2013 and beyond:

• First-class support for Java SE 8 based Spring applications: language features such as lambda expressions; APIs such as JSR-310 Date and Time
• Configuring and implementing Spring-style applications using Groovy 2: Groovy-based bean definitions; Groovy as the language of choice for an entire app
• Support for key Java EE 7 technologies: including JMS 2.0, JPA 2.1, Bean Validation 1.1, Servlet 3.1, and JCache
• Enabling WebSocket-style application architectures: support for JSR-356 compliant runtimes and related technologies
• Fine-grained eventing and messaging within the application: building on our existing application event and message listener mechanisms
• Pruning and dependency upgrades: removing deprecated features; raising minimum dependencies to Java 6+ etc

Building on the momentum and the preparation work behind Spring Framework 3.2, we intend to have yet another one-year iteration and reach 4.0 GA by the end of 2013.

We'll be tracking OpenJDK 8's schedule…

Welcome back to another installment of This Week in Spring. As usual, we've got a lot to look at, so, without further ado...

1. GigaOM has a nice roundup of some of the exciting and important tools in the big-data ecosystem right now. There are many different tools serving different segments of the use cases,

   <a href="http://gigaom.com/2012/12/18/a-programmers-guide-to-big-data-12-tools-to-know/">and of course Spring Data is mentioned in there</a>, too!
    
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   	 The <EM> ODBMS Industry Watch</em> blog 
   		and professor Roberto V. Zicari  
   		has a nice  interview 
   		
   		 <a href ="http://www.odbms.org/blog/2013/01/the-spring-data-project-interview-with-david-turanski">with Spring ninja David Turanski on Spring Data</a>. Definitely a good read!
   
   	
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In October the first public version of the Scripted code editor was made available, a browser based editor using a Node.js local server, with a focus on providing a great JavaScript editing experience. Today the first update is available, version 0.3.

A full set of Release Notes about the latest features is available here. Here are some of the highlights:

NPM Installable

Scripted can now be installed simply using the Node Package Manager (npm) on either Windows, Linux or Mac:

npm install -g scripted

(might need a 'sudo' prefix on mac/linux). Once installed the 'scr' command can immediately be used to launch Scripted. As part of…

I almost typed 2012 when I composed this post! It's already 2013! I hope your holidays were wonderful.

Welcome back to another installment of This Week in Spring! It's time to begin another exciting new year (and to remember to use the correct new year in text!). With that, let's have a look at
the new and exciting content from all around the community.

<LI> The epic book by <a href="https://twitter.com/rob_winch/status/284812769197441024">Spring Security lead Rob Winch and Peter Mularien   on   Spring Security 3.1</a> by Packt publishing is now out!  
	  The book is a great resource for people who are looking at Spring Security and want  
	the scoop from the source.
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  <LI> Are you…