Recorded at SpringOne2GX 2014.

Speaker: Paul King

More Groovy Track

Slides: http://www.slideshare.net/SpringCentral/groovy-asttransforms-paulkingsep2014b

In this talk you'll learn about some of Groovy's AST transformations.

Recorded at SpringOne2GX 2014.

Speaker: Kenneth Kousen

Core Groovy Track

Slides: http://www.slideshare.net/SpringCentral/advanced-groovy-tips-and-tricks

Groovy has a very easy learning curve for Java developers, so many people become Groovy users without realizing all it can do. This presentation will examine features of Groovy that can make your life easier once you're past the initial adoption stage. Prerequisite: Some Groovy knowledge

Recorded at SpringOne2GX 2014.

Speaker: Dan Woods

Core Groovy Track

Slides: http://www.slideshare.net/SpringCentral/4pieter-springone2gx2014distributedplatformdev

Building an Enterprise Application Stack means the necessity to have a service tier that can scale to the demands of business. This talk will discuss the approach to developing a scalable enterprise architecture, and will demonstrate implementations based on the variety of technologies available from the Groovy ecosystem, including Grails, Spring, Spring Boot, and Spring Integration.

Original author: DISID Corporation

Dear Spring community,

The DISID Spring Roo team is busily working towards the 2.0 release. With Spring Roo 2.0 we would like recover the essence that defines the Roo project:

• Be a rapid application development tool, Roo isn't either a framework nor Maven plugins.
• Intelligent code generation to provide improved productivity.
  • Developers often are forced to spend too much of their time doing things that add too little value, Spring Roo's code generation helps them stay focused.
• Create applications based on the extensive set of Spring technologies: Spring Boot, Spring Data, Spring MVC, Spring Security, etc.
• Generate applications based on best architecture practices like: Service Layer, Repository Layer
• New scaffolding model that generates a fully functional responsive UI based on jQuery and Bootstrap.
• Improve extensibility and increase the collaboration of the Spring Roo project:
  • We will create the “Roo Marketplace”: the alternative to Roobot, easier to maintain and available for everyone, a place to find and keep track on third party addons and Roo Addon Suites.
  • A “Roo Addon Suite” is a great way to package and distribute a set of add-ons together, for example if you want to distribute Roo custom distributions. Roo Addon Suite is based on OSGi R5 Subsystems that provides a really convenient deployment model, without compromising the modularity of Roo.

The new Roo 2.0 is a beginning, in future versions we would like to design a new way to define the view layer components to get a true independence from view layer technologies letting the developers to try the technology that better adjust to their requirements: JSP, Thymeleaf, etc. without losing any benefit.

We have scheduled the work of the relase 2.0 in 3 main milestones:

Milestone 1: Create a smaller and easier to maintain Spring Roo distribution. From 2.0, Roo will contain the runtime and the main addons only, so new versions could be released more frequently and being kept up to date with latest Spring projects:

• Make a better separation between the Spring Roo runtime and the core addons. The Roo runtime APIs (classpath, metadata, support, etc.) must be kept as stable and backwards compatible as possible.
• Move the addons not classified as ”core addon” (GWT, JSF, ...) to their own projects to be maintained by Roo community. If your organization would like to contribute to Roo project by maintaining these addons please contact to: springroo@ disid.com
• Migrate current user guide from docbook to ASCIIdoc.

Milestone 2: Update code generation to use latest Spring technologies

• Update code generation to use the latest Spring framework versions (4.x)
  • Move from Spring framework dependencies to Spring IO Platform
• User Managed POM (ROO-3465, ROO-3478)
• Spring Profiles support
• Annotation based configuration:
  • Move to class configuration in spite of XML configuration
  • Improve application maintanability by using Spring Boot annotations
• Remove Active Record data model in favor of the Repository (Spring Data) based one.
• Generate application arquitecture based on service layer pattern by default

Milestone 3: Move web layer to HTML5

• Responsive UI – View layer based on jQuery, Bootstrap and CSS3

Important: Roo 2.0 might contain API changes and less add-ons than previous version so this release probably won't be backward compatible with 1.3. You can see a more specific roadmap in the SpringRoo JIRA:

As always, you’ll also find Roo on Twitter - either follow @SpringRoo or just include #SpringRoo in your tweets. Stay tuned to Spring Roo news!

On behalf of the Spring XD team, I am very pleased to announce the
first maintenance release of Spring XD 1.1.

Download Link: 1.1.1.RELEASE: zip and brew.

The 1.1.1 release includes bug fixes and some enhancements. The full list of tickets is available in our JIRA.

Here are some highlights.

• Improved performance and offset management when using Kafka message bus.
• Support for Spark Streaming's reliable receiver.
• Kryo serialization improvements.
• Option to clean up Rabbit queue/topics when deleting the stream.
• Add a Sqoop example

Feedback is very important, so please get in touch with…

Greetings Spring community,

Spring WS has just released version 2.2.1.RELEASE. This is a patch upgrade with no breaking API or behavior changes. I recommend upgrading to ensure you have the latest fixes. For a listing of completed issues see the report below:

Release Notes | Project Page | GitHub | Issues | Documentation

The artifacts are staged on maven central, http://repo.spring.io/release, and bintray.

Cheers!

I'm pleased to announce the release of Spring Security 4.0.0.RELEASE which closes over 175+ tickets. You can find the highlights below:

WebSocket Support

Spring Security 4 added WebSocket Support. It is now possible to use Spring Security with Spring's WebSocket support.

Spring Data Integration

Spring Security 4 added Spring Data Integration. It is now possible to refer to Spring Security's user within Spring Data queries using SpEL.

Test Support

Spring Security 4 has added Test Support. It is now much easier to write tests with Spring Security applications.

More Secure by Default

As exploits…

The GA release of Spring Data release train Fowler marks the finishing line of 6 month of development. It's time to give you an impression of the content of this release and a brief overview about individual features. The major themes of the Fowler release train were performance improvements and enhanced Java 8 support that are mainly reflected in the Spring Data JPA and MongoDB modules but a lot of other ones have seen significant improvements, too.

The easiest way to upgrade to the Spring Data Fowler release train is by using Spring Boot and configuring the spring-data-releasetrain.version property to Fowler-RELEASE. If you're not using Spring Boot yet, add the Spring Data BOM to your <dependencyManagement />…

I'm pleased to announce the release of Spring Security 3.2.7.RELEASE. This release brings a number of bug fixes including a fix for a regression in the Active Directory support.

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