Dear Spring Community,

We are pleased to announce that the first release candidate (1.0.0.RC1) of the Spring Data Graph 1.0 project with Neo4j support is now available!

The primary goal of the Spring Data project is to make it easier to build Spring-powered applications that use new data access technologies such as non-relational databases, map-reduce frameworks, and cloud based data services.

The Graph Neo4j module provides integration with the Neo4j graph database.

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To learn more about the project, visit the Spring Neo4j Homepage.

The…

Dear Spring Community,

We are pleased to announce that the first milestone release (1.0.0.M1) of the Spring Data JDBC Extensions 1.0 project with Oracle Database support is now available!

The new Spring Data JDBC Extensions project was created to provide additional support for vendor specific JDBC extensions. The bulk of the support is made up of code ported from the SpringSource project "Advanced Pack for Oracle Database" that was available for support subscription customers. We are now making this code available to all Spring users and any new developments will be made in the Spring Data…

Dear Spring Community,

We are pleased to announce that a new milestone release (1.0.0.M5) of the Spring Data Graph 1.0 project with Neo4j support is now available!

The primary goal of the Spring Data project is to make it easier to build Spring-powered applications that use new data access technologies such as non-relational databases, map-reduce frameworks, and cloud based data services.

The Graph Neo4j module provides integration with the Neo4j graph database.

Downloads | JavaDocs | Reference Documentation | Changelog

To learn more about the project, visit the Spring Neo4j Homepage.

The new…

Dear Spring Community,

we are pleased to announce that the second milestone release of the Spring Data JPA project is now available! The release includes:

• Support for Querydsl predicates and thus type-safe JPA queries
• Validation of @Query annotated queries at bootstrap time
• Support for XML based entity mapping
• Support for Distinct, In and NotIn keywords in query methods
• Ported Hades extensions into Spring Data Commons core
• Various bugfixes.

<dependency>
    <groupId>org.springframework.data</groupId>
    <artifactId>spring-data-jpa</artifactId>
    <version>1.0.0.M2</version>
</dependency>

<repository>
    <id>org.springframework.maven.milestone</id>
    <name>Spring Maven Milestone Repository</name>
    <url>http://maven.springframework.org/milestone</url>
</repository>

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Looking forward to your feedback in the forums or the issuetracker.

Dear Spring Community,

We're pleased to announce the new release 2.6.0 of the SpringSource Tool Suite (STS).

Some highlights from this release:

• All the updates that you got from 2.5.2.SR1 included (Spring Roo 1.1.2, Eclipse Helios SR2, Groovy 1.7.8, Grails 1.3.7)
• Roo Plugin Manager
• Content Assist, Quick Fixes and Refactorings for @Autowired, @Qualifier, @RequestMapping
• New graphical editor for Spring Web Flow
• A lot of new features and performance improvements for Groovy + Grails tooling

More details on new features and bug fixes can be found in the New and Noteworthy document. Detailed installation instructions are also available.

As always downloads are available from the STS download page.

Dear Spring Community,

We are pleased to announce that a new milestone release (1.0.0.M4) of the Spring Data Graph 1.0 project with Neo4j support is now available!

The primary goal of the Spring Data project is to make it easier to build Spring-powered applications that use new data access technologies such as non-relational databases, map-reduce frameworks, and cloud based data services.

The Graph Neo4j module provides integration with the Neo4j graph database.

Downloads | JavaDocs | Reference Documentation | Changelog

To learn more about the project, visit the Spring Neo4j Homepage.

The new…

Spring Web Flow 2.3 is now available for download. You can review what's new in the reference documentation, see the complete changelog, or download the release.

A few of the highlights include:

• Launching a flow in a page embedded mode.
• JSR-303 bean validation support.
• Propagation of a flow-managed persistence context to sub-flows.
• Support for partial rendering with Portlet resource requests.

Dear Spring Community,

We're pleased to announce that we just released a service refresh for 2.5.2 as well as the second milestone build for the next release of the SpringSource Tool Suite (STS).

The service refresh for STS 2.5.2 includes:

• Update to Spring Roo 1.1.2 (including UAA update)
• Update to Eclipse Helios SR2 (3.6.2)
• Some backported Spring IDE bugfixes
• Update to Groovy 1.7.8
• Update to Grails 1.3.7

Some highlights from the new 2.6.0.M2 milestone:

• Update to Spring Roo 1.1.2 (including UAA update)
• Update to Eclipse Helios SR2 (3.6.2)
• Update to Groovy 1.7.8
• Update to Grails 1.3.7
• A Roo Plugin Manager
• Improved support for @RequestMapping (including refactoring, content-assist and quickfix)
• Tons of improvements for Groovy-Eclipse and Grails tooling

More details on new features and bug fixes can be found in the 2.6.0.M2 New and Noteworthy document. Detailed installation instructions are also available.

As always downloads are available from the STS download page.

Dear Spring Community,

We are pleased to announce that the second milestone release of the Spring Social project is now available!

The Spring Social project allows you to integrate the APIs exposed by Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) providers such as Facebook and Twitter into your applications. The 1.0.0.M2 release includes:

• An extensible service provider framework that greatly simplifies the process of connecting local user accounts to hosted provider accounts.
• Full support for connecting to OAuth1 and OAuth2-based service providers from a Java/Spring web application environment.
• The ability for your users to authenticate with your application by signing in with their Twitter or Facebook accounts.
• Expanded service provider APIs, including more Twitter operations and initial support for GitHub and Gowalla.
• Complete reference documentation and samples!

See the changelog and reference guide for more information.

To get the software, download the release distribution, or simply add the maven artifacts to your project. To see the features live, check out the showcase app:
git clone git://github.com/SpringSource/spring-social-samples.git

We've been getting some great feedback from the Spring community about Spring Social and encourage you to collaborate with us on the project. If you are developing your own Java Binding to a SaaS API for use in your applications, be sure to checkout how to extend the framework and consider contributing your extensions back to the community!