I am happy to announce that the first milestone release (1.0.0.M1) for Spring for Apache Hadoop project is available and talk about some of the work we have been doing over the last few months. Part of the Spring Data umbrella, Spring for Apache Hadoop provides support for developing applications based on Apache Hadoop technologies by leveraging the capabilities of the Spring ecosystem. Whether one is writing stand-alone, vanilla MapReduce applications, interacting with data from multiple data stores across the enterprise, or coordinating a complex workflow of HDFS, Pig, or Hive jobs, or…

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. Lot's of good content to go over, this week, so let's get to it.

Also: if you're in Stockholm, Sweden attending the JFokus Java conference, be sure to stop by the VMWare booth to say hi or have your questions answered about Spring, Cloud Foundry, and vFabric.

1. Alan Stewart has announced the release of Spring Roo 1.2.1, which includes fixes for multi-module Maven projects, huge performance enhancements, and updated support for PrimeFaces 3.1 and Google App Engine 1.6.2.

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   <LI> Oliver Gierke has announced that <a href = "http://www.springsource.org/node/3469">JPA 1.1.0 RC1 and 1.0.3 GA have been released</a>. Among the many new features, the release includes support for locking, 
   	 <code>@IdClass</code> in entities,
   	Support for <code>LessThanEqual</code> and  <code>GreaterThanEquals</code>, <code>True</code>/<code>False</code> keywords in query methods…

The Spring Roo team is pleased to announce the availability 1.2.1.RELEASE.  This is the first maintenance release for 1.2 and includes fixes for a number of issues in multi-module Maven support and JSF/PrimeFaces.  It also has  performance enhancements and has been updated to support the recent release of PrimeFaces 3.1 and Google App Engine 1.6.2.

Please note that to keep the distribution size small we have not included the reference documentation in the zip for this and future releases. The documentation, as always,  can be found on the Spring Roo site.

Regards

Alan

Spring Roo Project Lead

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>,
	 is now…

By Jason Weathersby and Josh Long

Introduction

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.

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…

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…

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…