Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! As usual, we've got a lot to cover this week so let's get to it!

• the good Dr. Dave Syer is back it again with this seventh installment on how to better modularize the Angular.js client that talks to a backend Spring Security, Spring Boot, and Spring Security OAuth-powered service and with this eighth installment which looks at how to test that Angular.js application!
• Spring Security lead and all around amazing, test-driven dude, Rob Winch just announced Spring Test HtmlUnit 1.0.0.RC1 with a lot of new polish.
• Spring Batch lead Michael Minella just announced that Spring Batch 3.0.4, a maintenance release, is now available
• Spring Social lead Craig Walls just announced that two maintenance releases, Spring Social 1.1.2 and Spring Social 1.1.1…

Recorded at SpringOne2GX 2014.

Speaker: Baruch Sadogursky, JFrog

Slides: No slides, Baruch is 100% demo, baby

G&G Special Topics

Maintaining Grails plugins can be a real challenge given the high expectations and demands. Apart from supporting many users, you're tasked with making sure that the plugin is compatible with a range of Grails versions - both old and new. Your plugin must also be compatible with multiple development environments (OSs, SDKs, etc,) and play nice with the wealth of other plugins that exist in the ecosystem. How can we make sure that all these high standards are met? Testing, and lot's of it!

Recorded at SpringOne2GX 2014.

Speaker: Kenneth Kousen

G&G Special Topics

Slides: http://www.slideshare.net/SpringCentral/groovy-vampires

If a book as horrible as Twilight can sell millions of copies and be made into an even worse movie, how many copies can a book with Groovy vampires sell? (Spoiler: Not as many.) Yes, this topic may be silly, but the technologies used (Groovy, Ratpack, MongoDB, Grails, REST) are (un)deadly serious.

Recorded at SpringOne2GX 2014.

Speaker: David Dawson, Simplicity Itself

G&G Special Topics

Slides: http://www.slideshare.net/SpringCentral/s2gx-philosophicalarchitecture

Software development is hard. Life is hard. We try to keep up with a changing world, and it's hard. Where though, does the problem lie? In this talk, David, CEO at Simplicity Itself, will describe a different way of approaching the problem of software development, a different way of trying to keep up with a changing world. This is not a soft talk, all opinions are backed up by cold hard code in a running Grails application, showing how a change in the way you think can radically change your software.

Dear Spring Community,

I'm pleased to announce the availability of Spring Social 1.1.1.RELEASE. This is a maintenance release, addressing a handful of bugs and introducing a few minor improvements. View the release notes for full details.

Compatibility note: In order to fix a serialization issue when using ProviderSignInUtils, a minor breaking change was necessary. ProviderSignInAttempt no longer carries its own ConnectionFactoryLocator and UsersConnectionRepository. Those must now be passed in as parameters when instantiating ProviderSignInUtils.

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I'm pleased to announce the release of Spring Test HtmlUnit 1.0.0 RC1. The highlights of the release can be found below:

Migration Guide

A detailed migration guide from 1.0.0.M2 to 1.0.0.RC1 was added.

New Maven Coordinates

We have changed the maven group id. For details refer to Updating Dependencies

Default Context Path is ""

Based upon community feedback, the default context path is now "". This means if you are using a previous release, you will need to update the URL that is configured.

For details refer to Default Context Path is now ""

MockMvc WebClient & WebDriver Builders

This release…

In this article we continue our discussion of how to use Spring Security with Angular JS in a "single page application". Here we show how to modularize the client-side code, and how to use "nice" URL paths without the fragment notation (e.g. "/#/login") which Angular uses by default, but most users dislike. This is the seventh in a series of articles, and you can catch up on the basic building blocks of the application or build it from scratch by reading the first article, or you can just go straight to the source code in Github. We will be able to tidy up a lot of loose ends from the…

Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This week, I'm in Chicago, IL, for the spectacular GOTO conference, Chicago edition. If you're in the Chicago area, ping me on Twitter (@starbuxman). Cloud Foundry Summit just wrapped today as 1500 people came together to talk about the community and the technology. Spring made a strong showing, even getting a general session shoutout from James Watters for Spring Boot passing 1 Million downloads in April.

Now, without further ado..

• Spring Tool Suite ninja Kris De Volder just announced the new support for editing .yml files in STS - this is particularly awesome if you're using Spring Boot!
• Spring IO lead and all-around mad-scientist Andy Wilkinson just released the Gradle dependency management plugin 0.5.1.RELEASE. This plugin brings the power of Maven's dependencyManagement mechanism to Gradle and makes it easy to create consistent builds.
• Spring Integration lead Gary Russell just released Spring AMQP 1.4.5 and 1.5.0-M1. The 1.5 series introduces class-level @RabbitListener annotations (not just method-level ones), auto-declared queues and bindings, configurable exchange/routing Key for replies, a RabbitManagementTemplate…

Recorded at SpringOne2GX 2014.

Speakers: Baruch Sadogursky, Frederic Simon - JFrog

Core Groovy Track

Slides: none all demo

You probably know how to use AST transformations. You might although think that writing your own AST transformations is something complicated, and takes deep knowledge of academical compliers, abstract syntax tree and other neat stuff.