Welcome back to the final installment of This Week in Spring for 2011. It's incredible to think that we've been doing this for a year already! Where has the time gone? Time flies when you're having fun, as they say...

The hope has always been that these roundups would make it easier for developers to take the pulse of the Spring community. Between the announcements and releases and content from SpringSource and VMware and the incredible deluge of content authored by the community, there is always something interesting happening, somewhere.

While there is a lot of interesting content this week, we'll defer the usual reviews until next week. This week, we're going to reflect on the year that was 2011 for the Spring community.

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	<lI>  <B>Spring 3.1</B> Development of Spring 3.1 began in earnest in early 2010, and by SpringOne 2GX 2010 we already had an idea of what it was going to look like. By the beginning of this year, <a href ="http://www.springsource.org/node/3026">we already had milestones</a> to play with.  
  As the year progressed, we saw numerous new milestones, followed in short order by release candidates. The release candidates progressed and then, finally, a couple of weeks ago, we <a href = "http://www.springsource.org/node/3335">got Spring 3.1 GA</a>. 

Among the many new, exciting…

Here is more great content from SpringOne 2GX 2011, this time a detailed follow-up to the mobile demonstrations in the technical keynote. This video presentation is by Keith Donald and Roy Clarkson, who have been doing the advanced web work for Spring. In Making the Mobile Web Native with PhoneGap Keith and Roy cover:

• The emergence of HTML 5 based applications as a way to do cross platform mobile development
• PhoneGap APIs and Plugins for development that combine HTML 5 with native Android and iOS capabilities
• PhoneGap build process and remote debugging
• A complete walk-through for the Spring html5expense sample application

Many thanks to InfoQ for coming to Chicago to record so many of the fantastic SpringOne 2GX presentations.

Now that everyone has had a chance to see the keynote presentations from SpringOne 2GX 2011 and that Grails 2.0 has been released we can share more conference sessions from the 2GX side of the show. This video presentation is by Peter Ledbrook, Developer Advocate for Grails, and he discusses running Grails in the Cloud. He compares the different cloud providers out there and looks at some of the best solutions for hosting your Grails applications.

Many thanks to InfoQ for coming to Chicago to record so many of the fantastic SpringOne 2GX presentations.

In this new video interview from InfoQ, Spring expert, Oleg Zhurakousky talks about messaging, Spring Integration, and Cloud Architectures. This interview, filmed in October at JavaOne 2011, provides some background to how the Spring team has been thinking about emerging new models of application design for cloud platforms.

Oleg talks about :

• Developer choice and flexibility in cloud platforms and programming models
• Alternate approaches to retrieving data through messaging and noSQL options
• How messaging as an architectural paradigm is perfectly suited for large distributed systems

Many thanks to InfoQ for taking the time to talk to the Spring experts and providing this outstanding interview to the community.

Here is another great session from SpringOne 2GX 2011, this time covering one of the Spring Data projects. This video presentation is by Michael Hunger, Software Developer for Neo4J Technologies, and he provides an Introduction to Spring Data Neo4J. Michael covers

• A NoSQL overview and the basics of the Spring Data projects
• Graph databases and an introduction to Neo4J
• An introduction to Spring Data Neo4J and code examples about how to use it in your applications

Many thanks to InfoQ for coming to Chicago to record so many of the fantastic SpringOne 2GX presentations.

Now that everyone has had a chance to see the keynote presentations from SpringOne 2GX 2011, we are going to dive deeper into the conference sessions. This video presentation is by Tom McCuch, Senior Sales Engineer for SpringSource, and he discusses Messaging for Modern Applications. Tom covers

• Modern Applications: trends and impact of messaging as well as messaging application architecture
• Spring Integration: messaging use cases and a messaging DSL for Spring applications
• AMQP: architecture and implementation by RabbitMQ

Many thanks to InfoQ for coming to Chicago to record so many of the fantastic SpringOne 2GX presentations.

In this video Jared Rosoff from 10gen and Thomas Risberg from SpringSource show what the combination of MongoDB and Cloud Foundry has to offer to Spring developers. They develop a sample application combining MongoDB and the Spring Data project, and show how to build and deploy it to the cloud. After 60 minutes, you too will be ready to develop and deploy to the cloud your own Spring applications that use MongoDB.

Be sure to thumbs up the presentation if you find it useful and subscribe to the SpringSourceDev channel to receive updates about all the latest presentation recordings and screencasts.

Following on from yesterday's video, InfoQ has just published the video from the Technical Keynote at SpringOne 2GX 2011 with Ben Alex. Ben discusses in detail the forces that are driving change into enterprise development and provides an overview of the research that Spring engineers are doing to define the next generation of applications. Ben is joined on stage by numerous Spring experts:

• Keith Donald & Jeremy Grelle demonstrate how to use Spring based REST services with PhoneGap to produce iPhone and Android applications
• Craig Walls & Roy Clarkson discuss social media integration with modern web applications
• Graeme Rocher & James Tyrell demonstrate off line operation in an HTML 5 app using an in browser database
• Tim Fox discusses the rise of asynchronous programming models on the server

A shareable version of Technical Keynote slides are also available on our SpringOne 2GX 2011 Keynote Presentations page.

Many thanks to InfoQ for coming to Chicago to record so many of the fantastic SpringOne 2GX presentations.

SpringOne 2GX 2011 was a phenomenal event and thanks to InfoQ, if you were not able to attend in person you can still see much of the content. The first video is from the Opening Night Keynote with Adrian Colyer. Adrian recaps the core principles underlying Spring and then surveys the development progress in the Data, Mobile, Social and Platform-as-a-Service spaces. Adrian also invites Graeme Rocher up to the stage to provide an update on Grails development. Derek Collison also makes a guest appearance to demonstrate some of the great features available in Cloud Foundry.

A shareable version of Adrian's slides are also available on our SpringOne 2GX 2011 Keynote Presentations page.

Many thanks to InfoQ for coming to Chicago to record so many of the fantastic SpringOne 2GX presentations.