Spring Security OAuth 2.0.6.RELEASE is available now in the usual repositories. It's a bug fix release, and users of 2.0.5.RELEASE should upgrade. The only critical bug was for users of JWT with refresh tokens, and there were also some people experiencing double encoding of redirect uris, which is now fixed. Highlights of new features:

• (Much requested) ability to have non-expiring refresh tokens with no customizations (just set the validity period to zero or less)

• The /token endpoint only accepts POST requests by default

• Resource servers do not accept cookie based authentication by default (you have to switch it on)

• Resource server configuration has a few new options including the ability to inject custom error handlers

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Spring Cloud 1.0.0.RC2 is available now in the http://repo.spring.io repository. There was a lot of activity pruning and curating dependencies, so users upgrading from RC1 might need to tweak their starter dependencies a bit, but hopefully we are all in a better place as a result. There were also a lot of changes in the Security features, making it easier to customize various parts of that, mainly in response to people actually using it and needing help (so thanks for the feedback). We will probably have an RC3 before the GA, but things are getting pretty close to ready.

On behalf of the Spring Roo Team at Disid Corp, we are pleased to announce the 1.3.1.RELEASE is out!

Spring Roo 1.3.1.RC2 was closed without new reported issues.

Spring Roo jar files have been published to Maven Central.

It is recommended that all Spring Roo users upgrade to this version. For full details on the changes made in the release, please refer to the Spring Roo 1.3.1.RC1 Release Notes and Spring Roo 1.3.1.RC2 Release Notes in JIRA.

Thanks to all awesome users who came up with useful bug reports and suggestions, currently we are working on defining final points of Spring Roo 2.0 Roadmap and it will be published as soon as possible.

For more specific information about Spring Roo project please see the Project Page or GitHub. 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!

Recorded at SpringOne2GX 2014.

More Groovy Track

Slides: http://www.slideshare.net/SpringCentral/databases-withgroovy-paulkingoct2013

This talk reviews the features in Groovy which make it easy to work with databases. It reviews the features of Groovy SQL including Groovy's LINQ-like lazy evaluation technology called datasets. In addition, it looks at working with a couple of NoSQL databases: MongoDB (using GMongo) and Neo4J (using it's Java api and via Gremlin support).

It seems like a lifetime ago, but a few short years ago I was leading a $100 million government project for a large system integrator that involved 50+ developers, 20+ testers, 15+ managers, 5+ ops and a cast of characters. Once a week we had to do our deploy.

Despite using Scrum, Cruise Control, SVN, Java, Eclipse, Guava, Google Guice, UML, JUnit, PMD, Findbugs, Checkstyle, MDD, TDD, eclEmma and mostly modern tools; our deploy process was a fragile, long, manual, person intensive process. Each Friday night we started. A long email thread began the process with a text check list that we…

On behalf of the Spring XD team, I am very pleased to announce that the Spring XD 1.1 Release Candidate is now available for download.

The 1.1 RC1 release includes several new features as well as bug fixes.

One theme in the 1.1 release is around Stream processing. The 1.1 M2 version introduced support for Reactor’s Stream API in processing modules. The 1.1 RC1 release adds support for stream processing using RxJava’s Observable API and Spark Streaming alongside the existing Spark job support. By providing a range of options, you can pick the functional programming model that best suits the…

Note: the source code and test for this blog continue to evolve, but the changes to the text are not being maintained here. Please see the tutorial version for the most up to date content.

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 build an API Gateway to control the authentication and access to the backend resources using Spring Cloud. This is the fourth 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. In the last article we built a simple distributed application that used Spring Session to authenticate the backend resources. In this one we make the UI server into a reverse proxy to the backend resource server, fixing the issues with the last…

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

1. Join Andy Wilkinson as he discusses REST API documentation, swagger, and more in a webinar on Tuesday, Feb 3rd - Documenting RESTful APIs
2. Sabby Anandan is joining us for the Spring XD 1.1 launch webinar on Tuesday, Feb 17th - Spring XD: A Platform for data at scale and developer productivity
3. Don't miss Rob Winch as he takes a fresh look at HTTPSession for the cloud. His webinar is on Tuesday, Feb 24th, 2015 Webinar: Introducing Spring Session
4. I put together a look at 12-factor app-style backing service consumption in Spring, and using Cloud Foundry
5. Check out this talk introducing system administration …

On behalf of the Spring Data team I'd like to announce the availability of the second service release for Spring Data release train Evans as well as the fifth - and final one - of Spring Data Dijkstra.

The releases ship 191 tickets fixed, some of them quite significant bugfix and performance improvements and thus the releases recommended upgrades within the trains. The Dijkstra service release is planned to be the last one for that train. Users are recommended to upgrade to Evans as bug fixes will only be ported to that branch going forward.

Find all resolved tickets for Evans SR 2 here, all tickets for Dijkstra SR5 here. Up next is the first release candidate of the Fowler release train that already contains a few very interesting features…