Dear Spring Community,

I am pleased to announce the second milestone release of the Spring Data Key Value 1.0 project, with support for Redis and Riak, is now available!

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This release introduces several new features for both Redis and Riak, such as:

• [Redis] Pubsub support (such as a MessageListenerContainer for message-driven POJOs)
• [Redis] JSON and Spring Object/XML mapping serializers
• [Redis] Full support for upcoming Redis 2.2
• [Redis] Sorting and Pipelining functionality
• [Riak] Asynchronous RiakTemplate
• [Riak] Dedicated Groovy DSL for asynchronous Riak access

We look forward to your feedback on the forum or in the issue tracker.

Dear Spring Community,

I'm pleased to announce that the 1.5.0.M2 milestone release of Spring BlazeDS Integration, the open source solution for building Spring-powered RIAs with Adobe Flex, is now available.

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Highlights of the significant new features and enhancements in this release include:

• Support for reading and writing AMF content with RESTful Spring MVC @Controllers. This serves as a nice alternative to the direct RPC approach of the Remoting Service, reducing duplication of effort in applications that need to support multiple client types. (See the updated Test Drive for usage examples.)
  
  
• A major refactoring of the Spring Security 3 support, resulting in easier integration of Flex apps with various Spring Security features such as Remember Me, Session Fixation Protection, and Concurrent Session Control.
  
  
• Further evolution of the Hibernate serialization support introduced in 1.5.0.M1, including the option to use direct field mapping instead of property-based mapping.
  
  
• Easier customization and namespace-supported configuration of framework-provided services such as the LoginCommand and MessageInterceptors.
  
  
• Upgraded compatibility with Spring Integration 2.0.x
  
  
• A complete revision of the Maven-based Test Drive samples, including an update across the board to use Flex 4, and a brand new sample to demonstrate the RESTful programming model.

One additional item to note is that the Flex Addon for Spring Roo is no longer part of the project distribution. Instead, version 1.0.0.M2 of the Flex Addon will be released separately in the coming weeks and will be available to Spring Roo 1.1.1 users through Roo's Addon Discovery mechanism. If you'd like to try out the nightly builds of the Flex Addon (which are necessary for compatibility with Roo 1.1 and above), I encourage you to reach out to the community for guidance.

As always, I encourage anyone interested to get involved by trying out the release and giving us feedback in the community forum and Jira, as we are fast approaching 1.5.0.RC1. We continually get great feedback from people having success with Spring BlazeDS Integration in their projects, and we look forward to hearing more about your experiences.

Jeremy Grelle
Spring Flex Lead

We're pleased to an announce the first release candidate for Spring Security 3.1

Please see the changelog for a full list of updates since the M2 release.

The release is available from the Spring Community Downloads area and also from the SpringSource maven repository.

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Dear Spring Community,

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

Spring Android supports usage of the Spring Framework in a Android environment. The 1.0.0.M2 release focuses on extending the use of RestTemplate in native Android applications:

• We now use the HttpComponents HttpClient 4 by default for all REST calls, which is a native HTTP client on the Android platform. This replaces the use of the Commons HttpClient 3 from the first milestone.
• We have added Object-to-XML marshaling support through the use of the Simple XML serialization library. Simple has a small footprint and is compatible with Android.
• RSS and Atom Feeds are now supported through the Android Rome Feed Reader. Android Rome is a port of the popular Rome library that is compatible with Android.
• Integration with the Jackson JSON Processor continues to provide first-class Object-to-JSON marshaling support.

Spring Android is available for download. If you are utilizing Maven with your Android project, simply add the following dependency:

<dependency>
    <groupId>org.springframework.android</groupId>
    <artifactId>spring-android-rest-template</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>

In addition to the reference guide, Roy Clarkson has authored two blog posts to help you get started developing Android applications:

• Spring Android and Maven (Part 1)
• Spring Android and Maven (Part 2)

A sample app with a README is available at github.com/SpringSource/spring-android-samples: git clone git://github.com/SpringSource/spring-android-samples.git

Work continues on the next Spring Android milestone, where we will we be integrating OAuth support for Android applications. If you're building native Android applications, we invite you to collaborate with us on the Spring Android project.

Dear Spring Community,

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

Spring Mobile provides extensions to Spring MVC that aid in the development of cross-platform mobile web applications. The 1.0.0.M3 release ships a general facility for user site preference management that can be used independently or in conjunction with the mobile site switcher. See the changelog and reference manual for all the info.

Download the release distribution or pull the artifacts from Maven using the following:

    <repository>
        <id>org.springframework.maven.milestone</id>
        <name>Spring Maven Milestone Repository</name>
        <url>http://maven.springframework.org/milestone</url>
    </repository>
&lt;dependency&gt;
    &lt;groupId&gt;org.springframework.mobile&lt;/groupId&gt;
    &lt;artifactId&gt;spring-mobile-device&lt;/artifactId&gt;
    &lt;version&gt;1.0.0.M3&lt;/version&gt;
&lt;/dependency&gt;

Get sample apps over at github.com/SpringSource/spring-mobile-samples | git clone git://github.com/SpringSource/spring-mobile-samples.git

This release marks our third iteration with early adopters in the community using Spring Mobile in their own applications. If you are building a mobile web app, we encourage you try out 1.0.0.M3 and collaborate with us on the next iteration of the project.

Dear Spring Community,

We are pleased to announce that the first GA release of the Spring GemFire 1.0 project is now available for both Java and .NET! The Spring GemFire project aims to make it easier to build Spring-powered highly scalable applications using GemFire as distributed data management platform.

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This release features:

• Declarative dependency injection style configurations for the GemFire infrastructure (such as Cache, Region, Interest, etc)
• Extensive namespace support for configuring all the major GemFire components: cache, replicated, partitioned and client regions and many more
• Exception translation to Spring's portable DataAccess exception hierarchy
• Template and callback support for easy native API access
• Transaction management support
• Spring-backed wiring for GemFire managed objects
• Auto-generation of non-reflection based Instantiators
• Native support for GemFire 6.5 (besides 6.0)
• Declarative Caching Advice (for .NET)

Through Spring GemFire, Spring users should feel right at home when interacting with GemFire while developers familiar with GemFire will see the benefits and flexibility of the Spring container, its…

Dear Spring Community,

I am pleased to announce that the second milestone release 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.

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Dear Spring Community,

We're pleased to announce that we just released the first milestone build for the next release of the SpringSource Tool Suite (STS).

Some highlights from this milestone build:

• Content-Assist and Quickfixes for @Autowired and @Qualifer
• Content-Assist in @RequestMapping for path variables
• Updated Spring Project Wizard
• RequestMappings from ITDs now in Spring Explorer and RequestMapping-View
• Improved content assist performance for Groovy
• Improved syntax highlighting for Groovy

More details on new features and bug fixes can be found in the 2.6.0.M1 New and Noteworthy document. Detailed installation instructions are also available.

As always downloads are available from the STS download page, check "Other Downloads".

Dear Spring Community

I'm pleased to announce that we just released SpringSource Tool Suite (STS) 2.5.2.RELEASE.

Some highlights from the new release:

• Support for Spring Roo 1.1.1.RELEASE
• Easy creation of new tc Server instances
• Improved graphical Spring Web Flow editor
• Agent-based reloading (experimental)
• A large number of improvements to the Spring and Groovy/Grails tooling
• Integration of Spring User Agent Analysis (UAA)

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. Feel free to stop by the community support forum if you have any question or issue.