I'm pleased to announce the release of Spring Security Java Configuration as a stand alone module. The milestone is compatible with Spring 3.2.3.RELEASE+ and Spring Security 3.1.4.RELEASE.

This code has been merged into Spring Security 3.2.0.M2 release and will be maintained within the Spring Security code base going forward. We hope that by making the release available for stable versions of Spring and Spring Security it will encourage you to try it sooner and provide us feedback before the final release.

Stay tuned to the SpringSource blog for an article that walks you through how to use Spring Security Java Configuration. In the mean time, you can find out how to obtain spring-security-javaconfig, documentation, and samples at http://github.com/SpringSource/spring-security-javaconfig…

The release candidate for the upcoming Spring-AMQP 1.2.0 release for Java is now available.

See the release notes for more information.

This release includes a few additional improvements and features over and above those in the previous milestone.

See the project page for links to downloads and documentation.

Dear Spring Community,

I'm happy to announce the release of Spring Social Facebook 1.0.3.RELEASE.

Spring Social is an extension of the Spring Framework that enables you to connect your Java applications to Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) providers such as Facebook and Twitter.

Spring Social Facebook 1.0.3.RELEASE is made available to address breaking changes forthcoming in Facebook's Graph API to be applied on July 10, 2013. Specifically, the following breaking changes have been addressed:

• The removal of the 'count' property in a list of comments.
• Deprecation of checkins via the /checkins resource. All checkins should be done as posts with a location now.
• Removal of the 'version' property for groups.
• The Graph API no longer returns images for photos with sizes larger than the original image size.

In addition, a handful of small improvements were made to Spring Social Facebook's API binding. See the changelog for details.

To get the software, download the release distribution or change the Spring Social Facebook dependency in your build file to reference 1.0.3.RELEASE.

Important: This release includes changes to enable Spring Social Facebook to work after the July 2013 Breaking Changes. In order for this version of Spring Social Facebook to work prior to July 10, 2013, you'll need to configure your application at Facebook to enable the July 2013 Breaking Changes. Within Facebook's application configuration, go to "Settings->Advanced" and click the "Enabled" radio button next to "July 2013 Breaking Changes".

We invite you to discuss this release as well as the continuing work toward Spring Social 1.1.0 in the Spring Social Forum and to report any bugs or improvements in the Spring Social Facebook issue tracker.

Dear Spring Community,

The Spring XD team is pleased to announce that the first milestone of Spring XD is now available for download.

Spring XD makes it easy to solve common big data problems such as data ingestion and export, real-time analytics, and batch workflow orchestration. The first milestone implements many features and provides a sizable amount of documentation.

For more information, please see the Project Home Page, the Release Notes and the the blog posting.

We would love to hear your feedback as we continue working hard towards the final Spring XD 1.0.0 release. If you have any questions, please use Stackoverflow (Tag: springxd), and to report any bugs or improvements, please use either the Jira Issue Tracker or file a GitHub issue.

We are pleased to announce the availability of Spring Integration 2.2.4 and 2.1.6 maintenance releases.

Spring Integration's Twitter module uses Spring Social Twitter, which has been updated to version 1.0.5 in anticipation of the Twitter v1.0 API retirement. The Spring Social Twitter 1.0.4.RELEASE [1] and 1.0.5.RELEASE [2] announcements provide more information about the recent updates to that project. For anyone using Twitter search adapters, the underlying search API in v1.1 requires authorization, so you will need to update the configuration for any TwitterTemplate (if not already…

Dear Spring Community,

I'm happy to announce the release of Spring Social Twitter 1.0.5.RELEASE.

Spring Social is an extension of the Spring Framework that enables you to connect your Java applications to Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) providers such as Facebook and Twitter.

Spring Social Twitter 1.0.5.RELEASE is a bug fix release that addresses a couple of bugs found since 1.0.4.RELEASE. Specifically, the following items have been fixed:

• Spring 3.0.x compatibility issue when creating a TwitterTemplate using an application token.
• Improper deserialization of the max_id property in SearchMetadata.

As with the previous release, Spring Social Twitter 1.0.5.RELEASE is being made available in anticipation of the retirement of version 1.0 of Twitter's API, scheduled to take place tomorrow, June 11, 2013.

To get the software, download the release distribution or change the Spring Social Twitter dependency in your build file to reference 1.0.5.RELEASE.

We invite you to discuss this release as well as the continuing work toward Spring Social 1.1.0 in the Spring Social Forum and to report any bugs or improvements in the Spring Social Twitter issue tracker.

Dear Spring Community,

I'm happy to announce the release of Spring Social Twitter 1.0.4.RELEASE and Spring Social 1.0.3.RELEASE.

Spring Social is an extension of the Spring Framework that enables you to connect your Java applications to Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) providers such as Facebook and Twitter.

Spring Social Twitter 1.0.4.RELEASE is being made available in anticipation of the retirement of Twitter API v1.0. Although Spring Social Twitter has supported the v1.1 of the Twitter API since 1.0.3.RELEASE, it required user authorization for all operations. Twitter has since started supporting application authorization (e.g., OAuth 2 Client Credentials Grant) for resources that do not strictly need user authorization (such as search). Spring Social Twitter 1.0.4.RELEASE now offers a new constructor for TwitterTemplate that accepts an application access token for accessing resources that allow application authorization.

In addition, a few minor bugs in the Twitter API binding have been addressed.

In support of the changes in Spring Social Twitter 1.0.4.RELEASE, Spring Social 1.0.3.RELEASE offers a new authenticateClient() method in OAuth2Operations to enable an application to obtain an application access token. This application token can be used to construct a TwitterTemplate through the new constructor.

To get the software, download the release distribution:

• Spring Social Twitter 1.0.4.RELEASE
• Spring Social 1.0.3.RELEASE

We invite you to discuss these releases as well as the continuing work toward Spring Social 1.1.0 in the Spring Social Forum and to report any bugs or improvements in issue tracking (Core | Twitter).

We are pleased to announce that Spring Batch 2.2.0.RELEASE is now available via Maven Central, Github and the SpringSource download repository.

Spring Batch Home | Source on GitHub | Reference Documentation

Support for Spring Data

Spring Data is a collection of projects intended to make it easier to develop Spring-powered applications that use new data access technologies such as non-relational (NoSQL) databases. Based on a model of exposing Repository objects, Spring Data allows applications to access data in a simple and consistent way across many new platforms. Spring Batch 2.2.0.RELEASE provides ItemReader implementations for Neo4J and MongoDB as well as ItemWriter impelementaions for Neo4J, MongoDB and Gemfire. We also have created a RepositoryItemReader and RepositoryItemWriter…