Dear Spring Community,

I'm happy to announce the 1.1.0.M3 release of Spring Social, Spring Social Facebook, and Spring Social Twitter. At the same time, I'm also pleased to include Spring Social LinkedIn 1.0.0.RC2 along with these releases.

Spring Social is an extension of the Spring Framework that enables you to connect your Java applications to Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) providers such as Facebook and Twitter.

In these four releases, you'll find several improvements and new features, including:

• New ReconnectFilter to automatically handle invalid/expired connections and attempt to reestablish a new connection.
• Support for OAuth 2's 'state' parameter to prevent CSRF attacks.
• Support for non-standard, provider-specific parameters during provider sign-in.
• Several API updates in the API bindings for Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn.
• Initial support for Twitter's streaming API.
• Support for application-only Twitter authorization.

In addition, several bugs were fixed. See the changelog (Core|Facebook|Twitter|LinkedIn) for details.

To get the software, download the release distribution (Core|Facebook|Twitter|LinkedIn) or change the dependencies in your build file to reference version 1.1.0.M3 (or 1.0.0.RC2 for Spring Social LinkedIn).

These releases represent a step toward a Spring Social 1.1.0 release later this year. We have planned one more milestone release of Spring Social, Spring Social Facebook, and Spring Social Twitter that will include a few more small improvements and features.

We invite you to discuss this release as well as the continuing work toward Spring Social 1.1.0 in the Spring Social Forum and to report any bugs or improvements in the Spring Social issue tracker.

This is the fourth post in my five part blog series that introduces Spring Security Java configuration. In this post, we will discuss how Spring Security Java configuration can be extended by walking through Spring Security OAuth Java configuration support.

Proof of Concept

While the Spring Security Java configuration works well for very basic configuration, it is just a proof of concept. We have not ensured that all the functionality available in the XML namespace is present within its Java configuration support. It was important to ensure that Spring Security's Java configuration would work…

Update

Users should refer to the Spring Security Reference which contains more up to date information.

Original Blog Post

This is the third installment of a four part blog series. In my first post, I introduced Spring Security Java configuration and discussed some of the logistics of the project. In my previous post, we walked through a few examples of configuring web based security.

In this post, I will discuss how to configure method based security using Spring Security Java configuration. Like our previous post, we will start off with a very basic example and follow it up with an example…

Update

Users should refer to the Spring Security Reference which contains more up to date information.

Original Blog Post

In my previous post, I introduced Spring Security Java configuration and discussed some of the logistics of the project. In this post, we will start off by walking through a very simple web security configuration. We will then spice things up a bit with configuration that has been customized some.

Hello Web Security

In this section we go through the most basic configuration for web based security. It can be broken into four steps:

• Updating your dependencies - we demonstrated this using Maven in our previous blog post
• Provide the Spring Security configuration - in our example this is done with a WebSecurityConfigurerAdapter
• Ensure the Spring Security configuration is loaded - in our example this is done with AbstractAnnotationConfigDispatcherServletInitializer
• Configure the springSecurityFilterChain - in our example this is done with AbstractSecurityWebApplicationInitializer
…

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. Spring and Cloud Foundry ninja Jennifer Hickey has announced the availability of Spring Data Redis 1.1 M1 and 1.0.5. Check it out!
2. Spring Security lead (and ninja) Rob Winch has announced the initial availability of the Spring Security Java configuration support. Rob also just posted a very nice post (the first of four) on the new Spring Security Java configuration support. The first post addresses where you can find the new Spring Security Java configuration support.
3. Join us on July 18th for the webinar, "Functional Programming without Lambas" which introduces ways to use functional programing in Java right now (instead of waiting for Java 8!) using Guava, LambaJ, and Functional Java.
4. Corby Page has written a very nice post on ways to extend your REST APIs ability with his project, Yoga. In particular, it supports something called a selector which can be used to extract sub-views of the REST response to be sent back to the client. This can also be used to support what Lez Hazelwood aptly describes as entity expansions.
5. The Crunchify blog has a nice post on how to upload multiple files with Spring MVC.
   
6. SpringSource has added a new Live Online Core Spring class to the schedule for September .
   
7. The Spring LDAP project has gone social and moved to GitHub!
8. Our pal XueFeng Ding (who you may remember helped put together the blog "Spring at China Scala") has just recently given a very nice presentation on building REST APIs with Spring. I think his deck's pretty cool, so check it out!
9. Sergey Shcherbakov recently gave a nice talk introducing a whole slew of cool things. I think his sample code is particularly worth a look. The code features Spring 4 WebSockets, XML-less Spring Batch, Reactor and AngularJS examples. Nice job, Sergey!
10. Johnathan Mark Smith has put together a nice blog on how to use Spring Data with MongoDB. Nice job!
11. Nicolas Frankel has put together a very nice post on some of the compelling features in Spring 3.2. Nice job, Nicolas!
12. Nick Williams submitted a pull-request to support using Java configuration with Spring WS's MessageDispatcherServlet so that it can be configured within a ServletContextListener or a ServletContainerInitializer. Nice job, Nick!
13. This is not specific to Spring, or Spring Batch, per-se, but the Technology AMIS blog has an interesting look at how to use the Batch JSR (which is based on Spring Batch, and designed in cooperation with the Spring Batch team) to build a download manager. (Don't worry, you don't have to use GlassFish to work with the Batch JSR!) Pretty cool! If you know Spring Batch, then a lot of this will look familiar and, as Spring Batch will also implement the JSR, should prove a very nice on-ramp for anyone who wants to use Spring Batch in the future.

Yesterday I announced the release of Spring Security Java Configuration support and the release of Spring Security 3.2.0.M2 which contains Java Configuration support.

Spring Security's Java Configuration support is intended to provide a complete replacement of the XML namespace configuration. It is also designed to be extensible, so that Spring Security's extension projects can work nicely with the Java Configuration support.

In this first post of a five part Spring Security Java Configuration blog series, I discuss the logistics of the Spring Security Java Configuration project.

[callout title="Required Versions"]Regardless of how you decide to integrate with Spring Security, it is important to ensure you are using Spring 3.2.3.RELEASE+ to ensure that you avoid SPR-10546.[/callout]

Availability

Before we get started, I'd like to talk about the two modules that Spring Security's Java Configuration can be found.

Availability in Spring Security 3.2.0.M2+

Spring Security Java Configuration has been copied into the Spring Security 3.2.0.M2+ code base. This means if you are using Spring Security 3.2.0.M2+ you should ensure to have the spring-security-config jar on your classpath. For example, you might have the following…

Dear Spring Community,

I am pleased to announce the first milestone release of Spring Data Redis 1.1!

Downloads | JavaDocs | Reference Documentation | Changelog

Highlights include:

• Support for several new Redis 2.6 commands and options
• Support for Redis 2.6 scripting
• Connection pool enhancements

There is also a new GA release, Spring Data Redis 1.0.5!

Downloads | JavaDocs | Reference Documentation | Changelog

Spring Data Redis 1.0.5 is a maintenance release containing a few bug fixes and minor enhancements. See the Changelog for more information.

For more information about Spring Data Redis please see the home page for a live sample and webinar recording.

We look forward to your feedback on the forum or in the issue tracker…

I'm pleased to announce the release of Spring Security Java Configuration as a stand alone module. The milestone is compatible with Spring 3.2.3.RELEASE+ and Spring Security 3.1.4.RELEASE.

This code has been merged into Spring Security 3.2.0.M2 release and will be maintained within the Spring Security code base going forward. We hope that by making the release available for stable versions of Spring and Spring Security it will encourage you to try it sooner and provide us feedback before the final release.

Stay tuned to the SpringSource blog for an article that walks you through how to use Spring Security Java Configuration. In the mean time, you can find out how to obtain spring-security-javaconfig, documentation, and samples at http://github.com/SpringSource/spring-security-javaconfig…