Dear Spring Community,

At SpringOne, we launched a brand new Spring web site, including a collection of Getting Started Guides. These quick-hit guides are proving very popular as they get right to the point on how to use Spring to address several common tasks such as caching, messaging, and integration.

We are very pleased to announce the addition of several new Getting Started Guides that present Spring as providing services that back rich and mobile clients developed in Backbone, AngularJS, iOS, and other client-side frameworks and platforms. These guides include:

• Consuming a RESTful Web Service with AngularJS
• Consuming a RESTful Web Service with jQuery
• Consuming a RESTful Web Service with rest.js
• Consuming a RESTful Web Service with Sencha Touch
• Consuming a RESTful Web Service with Backbone.js
• Consuming a RESTful Web Service from iOS
• Consuming a RESTful Web Service with Spring for Android
• Building a RESTful Web Service with CORS
• Messaging with STOMP over WebSocket
• Using WebSocket and msgs.js to build an interactive web application
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I am pleased to announce the release of Spring Security 3.2.0.RELEASE. You can view the highlights of this release within the What’s new in Spring Security 3.2 section of the reference. A list of changes since 3.1.x and since the last release can be found within JIRA's change logs.

To learn more about Spring Security 3.2, I'd like to encourage you to view the new Spring Security guides and to attend the free Spring Security 3.2 Webniar on January 16th.

Please consider helping us spread the word on Twitter, ask questions on Stackoverflow with the spring-security tag and log any issues to the Spring Security JIRA…

We are pleased to announce that Spring Integration 3.0 is now available.

The features in the release were covered in the recent announcement for the release candidate; a few minor changes made since then can be seen in the release notes.

Reference | API

Please visit the project page for more information and how to get this important release.

Recorded at SpringOne2GX 2013 in Santa Clara, CA

Speakers: Phil Webb and Josh Long

Using a module that provides a Spring XML namespace and integration API is muscle memory for most people: add the .xsd to the imported XML schemas for the configuration file, maybe enable a annotation-driven variant if it's available, autocomplete some XML stanzas, and then you're set! But what about Java configuration? Java configuration has been around in some form since at least 2005. It was merged into the core framework in 2009 and since then we've seen a slew of new Java configuration-powered DSLs pop up. 2013, in particular, has seen alpha-or-better cuts of Java configuration support for Spring MVC, Spring Security (and Spring Security OAuth), Spring Batch, Spring Social, Spring Data (including all the modules under it: REST, MongoDB, JPA, Neo4j, Redis, etc), Spring HATEOAS, and more all provide milestone-or-better cuts of a Java configuration integration. Tomcat 7 (and all Servlet 3-compatible containers) offer a programmatic alternative to web.xml. This provides another great integration hook for modules that wish to integrate with the web container, removing the configuration burden from the user. There's a lot of power here and it's easy to get started if you know what to look for. In this talk, join Spring Developer Advocate Josh Long and Spring-core commmitter, all-around nice guy, and Spring Boot ninja Phil Webb as they introduce the Java configuration support in the various Spring projects, show how to approach them when integrating them into your code, and - if the situation demands - how to write your own Java configuration DSL. Learn more about JavaConfig at http://projects.spring.io/spring-framework

Learn more about Java Configuration and Spring at http://projects.spring.io/spring-framework

Learn more about Spring Guides at http://www.spring.io/guides

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"If Markdown is a 1st-grader, then AsciiDoc is a PhD student."[sic] -- Dan Allen, project lead of AsciiDoctor

We recently migrated all of our Getting Started Guides to Asciidoctor. Why? Because Asciidoctor provides so many valuable features!

• Several built in directives make it possible to pull in entire code files, small fragments of code, and external chunks of reusable content.
• Rendering is now embedded into spring.io's website.
• No need to "generate" the guide, which always puts you at risk of being out of sync with the code, the build files, and the document itself.
• Lines up with how many of our projects are migrating away from DocBook towards AsciiDoctor to reduce maintenance.
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The Spring Framework re-invented enterprise Java in the last decade, becoming the dominant programming model in enterprise Java. Today we are releasing Spring Framework 4.0, a brand new major version of Spring that keeps Spring at the cutting edge of modern Java development. Together with the rest of the upcoming Spring IO Platform, Spring Framework 4.0 is positioned to empower the next decade of JVM based innovation, responding to, and setting trends in Developer Productivity, Big Data, Cloud, REST, and Micro Service Architecture.

Spring Framework 4.0 works beautifully with Java 8 and also…

In celebration of the Spring Framework 4.0 launch, Pivotal is excited to continue sponsoring Manning's "Countdown to 2014". We are offering 50% discounts for specific days, on books that are hand-picked by the Pivotal/Spring team. Manning is also making an additional offer to anyone that registers for the 2014 countdown - they are automatically entered to win one of two eBooks given away daily and a shot at the grand prize, an iPad Air.

Thursday, December 12 & Friday December 13th are Spring Days! (see below for book details)

Just go to manning.com and choose any (or all) of these selected books. Enter srgdotd13 in the Promotional Code box when you check out to get the discount.

You can read excerpts from books online for free by clicking on the links below. We hope you enjoy the deals!

Spring in Action, 4th Edition By Craig Walls   Read except from Chapter 1	Spring Integration in Action By Mark Fisher, Jonas Partner, Marius Bogoevici, and Iwein Fuld Foreword by Rod Johnson Sample chapter 3 Sample chapter 18	Spring Batch in Action By Arnaud Cogoluegnes, Thierry Templier, Gary Gregory, Olivier Bazoud Sample chapter 1 Sample chapter 5
Spring in Practice by Willie Wheeler with Joshua White Sample chapter 11 Sample chapter 13	RabbitMQ in Action By Alvaro Videla and Jason J.W. Williams Sample chapter 1 Sample chapter 8	RabbitMQ in Depth By Gavin M. Roy   Read Except from Chapter 1

The Spring Data team has just released the second service release for the Babbage release train. It includes the following modules:

• Spring Data Commons 1.6.3 - Changelog - JavaDoc - Artifacts
• Spring Data JPA 1.4.3 - Changelog - JavaDoc - Artifacts
• Spring Data MongoDB 1.3.3 - Changelog - JavaDoc - Artifacts
• Spring Data Neo4j 2.3.3 - Changelog - JavaDoc - Artifacts

The release bundles a bunch of important enhancements and bug fixes and is a recommended upgrade. You can find all issues fixed in this release in our JIRA.

The next step will be the second milestone of the Codd release train. More details about that here…

Dear Spring Community,

I am happy to announce the first milestone release 3.5.0.M1 of the Spring Tool Suite (STS) and the Groovy/Grails Tool Suite (GGTS).

Highlights from this milestone build include:

• improved new dashboard (news feeds are back)
• new advanced content-assist for Spring Boot projects
• support for new client side getting started guides
• support for Groovy 2.2
• updated to Grails 2.3.4
• updated to tc Server 2.9.4

Both tool suites ship on top of the latest Eclipse Kepler SR1 release.

To download the distributions, please go visit:

• Spring Tool Suite: https://spring.io/tools/sts/all
• Groovy/Grails Tool Suite: https://spring.io/tools/ggts/all

Detailed new and noteworthy notes can be found here: STS/GGTS 3.5.0.M1 New & Noteworthy.

3.5.0.M2 is scheduled for early Febuary 2014, followed by the 3.5.0 release in early March 2014 - shortly after the Eclipse Kepler SR2 release.

Enjoy!