SpringSource would like to announce the release of Spring Batch 2.2.0.M1!

This milestone release contains about 50/50 bug fixes and new features. This new release includes:

• Updates to the archetype.  It is now useful (pipes a file to a database by default) and provides packaging/execute scripts out of the box.
• Added the ability to provide your own Serializer implementation for use with the job repository.
• Added a new AmqpItemReader and AmqpItemWriter.
• Added @Configuration support to allow for java based configuration of jobs and steps

You can read about all of the new features and bug fixes in the change log. Enjoy!

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The Groovy team is pleased to announce the release of Groovy 2.1.0.

With over 1.7 million downloads in 2012, a strong ecosystem of successful projects like Grails, Gradle, Spock or Griffon built on Groovy, the Groovy programming language continues its development and adoption, refines existing features and evolves new ones.

In this new release, Groovy 2.1:

• offers full support for the JDK 7 “invoke dynamic” bytecode instruction and API,
• goes beyond conventional static type checking capabilities with a special annotation to assist with documentation and type safety of Domain-Specific Languages and adds static type checker extensions,
• provides additional compilation customization options,
• features a meta-annotation facility for combining annotations elegantly,
• and provides various other enhancements and minor improvements.

Please read all the details about the new features and improvements in the Groovy 2.1 release notes document.

You can download Groovy 2.1.0 from the Download area, and have a look at the JIRA tickets we worked on.

The Groovy team is looking…

The fourth maintenance release in the Spring 3.1.x line is now available via Maven Central, the SpringSource repository, or for direct download from our community download page. This release includes over 50 bugfixes and improvements and is a recommended upgrade for all users.

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We recently released 0.3 of the Scripted Editor, and we are making fast progress towards our next release. One of the major goals of Scripted Editor 0.4 is extensibility and part of the extensibility story is a simple, extensible templating mechanism (the other part is a powerful plugin model, which will be described in a future blog post). In this post, I will introduce custom code completions and templates for the Scripted editor.

Sublime Text is an excellent, general purpose editor. It is highly configurable and many users of Scripted also use Sublime. Because of this, we want to make extensions to Sublime compatible with Scripted where it makes sense. One of these areas is sublime-completions files. These files specify lists of completions for a given content type (typically mapped to file…

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

		  <LI> The future is now and it has a name and version - <EM>Spring 4.0</EM>. <a href="http://blog.springsource.org/2013/01/16/next-stop-spring-framework-4-0/">Juergen Hoeller outlined the proposed next iteration of Spring, Spring Framework 4.0</a>!  </LI>	
		
    <li>If you missed the live webinar of the Spring Framework 3.2 GA release, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fb5YG2W1srA">check out the replay</a>, which also has a brief discussion Spring Framework 4.0.</li>
    <li> Costin Leau has announced that <a href="http://www.springsource.org/node/3787">Spring for Apache Hadoop 1.…

Dear Spring Community, I am pleased to announce the second, and last planned, release candidate, 1.0 RC2 for Spring for Apache Hadoop:

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RC2 provides bug fixes and improvements and enhances the overall usability:

• Introduced dedicated namespace for Cascading
• Enhanced compatibility with Cloudera CDH3 and 4 and Greenplum HD 1.x
• Cascading, Pig and MapReduce batch tasklet expose the execution stats
• Refined threading for MapReduce jobs including safe job cancellation
• Overhauled reference documentation and samples

For the full list of changes, refer to the changelog. For more information on Spring for Apache Hadoop, see the project home page for reference documentation and the sample applications.

For a quick introduction to Spring for Apache Hadoop, see this <webinar|http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wlTnBzQ6KDU> or the reference…

Dear Spring Community,

We are happy to announce the release of Spring Mobile 1.1.0.M2!

Spring Mobile provides extensions to Spring MVC that aid in the development of cross-platform mobile web applications.

This release adds LiteDeviceDelegatingViewResolver, a ViewResolver implementation that adjusts the view name based on Device and SitePreference. It then delegates to another ViewResolver to complete the process of resolving the view. This release is built and tested against Spring Framework 3.2. See the changelog and reference manual for more information. Many thanks to the community for their support with regard to this new feature, including Scott Rossillo for his initial pull request and Neale Upstone for his input and feedback.

To retrieve the software, download the release distribution, or add the maven artifacts to your project. Sample apps are available at github.com/SpringSource/spring-mobile-samples

If you are building a mobile web app, we encourage you try out Spring Mobile 1.1.0.M2 and collaborate with us on the next iteration of the project.

Dear Spring community,

I'm happy to announce that the next iteration of the core framework will be Spring Framework 4.0!

The current 3.2 generation is a natural conclusion of the 3.x line, with Java-based configuration and REST having been recent focus areas next to Java SE 7 and Servlet 3.0 support.

For Spring Framework 4.0, our focus is on emerging enterprise themes in 2013 and beyond:

• First-class support for Java SE 8 based Spring applications: language features such as lambda expressions; APIs such as JSR-310 Date and Time
• Configuring and implementing Spring-style applications using Groovy 2: Groovy-based bean definitions; Groovy as the language of choice for an entire app
• Support for key Java EE 7 technologies: including JMS 2.0, JPA 2.1, Bean Validation 1.1, Servlet 3.1, and JCache
• Enabling WebSocket-style application architectures: support for JSR-356 compliant runtimes and related technologies
• Fine-grained eventing and messaging within the application: building on our existing application event and message listener mechanisms
• Pruning and dependency upgrades: removing deprecated features; raising minimum dependencies to Java 6+ etc

Building on the momentum and the preparation work behind Spring Framework 3.2, we intend to have yet another one-year iteration and reach 4.0 GA by the end of 2013.

We'll be tracking OpenJDK 8's schedule…

 Welcome to another installment of <EM>This Week in Spring</EM>! Can you believe we're already halfway through January?  We've got a <EM>lot</EM> to cover, so let's press on!  In particular, there's a <EM>lot</EM> of great video content to keep you occupied for hours this week. Enjoy! 
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<li>Join Scott Andrews as he discusses the role of Javascript in an exciting webinar on  January 24, 2013: <a href="http://www.springsource.org/node/3767" title="Webinar: Architecture of a Modern Web App"> Architecture of a Modern Web App</a>.</li>
<LI>Join Brian Cavalier and John Hann as they…