This Week in Spring - 23 October, 2012

Engineering | Josh Long | October 23, 2012 | ...

Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! As usual, we've got a lot to cover so let's get to it! A lot of this news come from SpringSource itself, from various projects timed to coincide with SpringOne2GX last week. It's like receiving an early birthday gift! And speaking of gifts, if you missed SpringOne2GX, don't worry! We recorded the SpringOne sessions and they will be posted soon. Also, you can check out the show wrap ups for Day 1, Day 2, and Day 3 on SpringSource.org to get a flavor for the conference.

  1. Costin Leau announced the release of Spring for Apache Hadoop 1.0.RC1 (the first-ever RC of Spring for Apache Hadoop!) featuring a template, exception translation and declarative runner for Pig and Hive scripts, enhanced map/reduce .jar and tool execution, and refined JVM scripting, M/R, and Cascading runners. Don't miss the upcoming webinar on Nov 8th!
  2. <LI>  Peter Bell did a    <A href = "http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Spring-Data-NoSQL">great presentation on Spring Data and the NoSQL </a>  space for QCon. Be sure to check it out!  </LI> 
    
  3. Yusuf has done a nice job introducing Spring's XA support in terms of the open source Bitronix standalone JTA-XA transaction manager. For an alternative guide, might I humbly suggest this blog post?
  4. Oleg Zhurakousky announced the release of Spring Integration 2.1.4 and 2.2.0.RC2 . The new release features pseudo transactions, JPA support, built-in retry support, and a lot more, so be sure to check it out!
  5. Costin Leau announced the release of Spring Data Redis 1.0.2, which features cache expiration and ZSet methods, among other things.
  6. Thomas Risberg announced the availability of the Spring Data JDBC extensions with Oracle database support, version 1.0.0.RC4.
  7. Satish Ab has a nice post on building the web layer with Spring MVC for his sample invoice application.
  8. The Mkyong blog has a nice post on how to autowire dependiecnes into custom JSF validators. Very nice post!
  9. Our friend Krishna Prasad has a nice post on hwo to implement the control bus pattern with Spring Integration and JMS

Spring Integration 2.1.4.RELEASE and 2.2.0.RC2 are released!

Releases | Oleg Zhurakousky | October 19, 2012 | ...

Dear Spring Community,

Just to close off SpringOne2GX 2012 with the bang, I am pleased to announce the release of Spring Integration 2.1.4.RELEASE and Spring Integration 2.2.0.RC2!

Resources for Spring Integration 2.1.4.RELEASE Downloads | JavaDocs | Reference Documentation | Release notes

Resources for Spring Integration 2.2.0.RC2 Downloads | JavaDocs | Reference Documentation | Release notes

Please read the following blogs to catch up on the new features of Spring Integration 2.2 MongoDb Adapter Support
Pseudo Transaction and Transaction Synchronization
JPA Support
Retry

and more to follow:

Special thanks to our community contributors - Artem Bilan and Amol Nayak

Spring Data JDBC Extensions with Oracle Database Support 1.0.0.RC4 Released

Releases | Thomas Risberg | October 17, 2012 | ...

Dear Spring Community,

We are pleased to announce that the fourth and last release candidate (1.0.0.RC4) of the Spring Data JDBC Extensions 1.0 project with Oracle Database support is now available!

The new Spring Data JDBC Extensions project was created to provide additional support for vendor specific JDBC extensions as well as new approaches to working with JDBC like QueryDSL. The bulk of the support is made up of code ported from the SpringSource project "Advanced Pack for Oracle Database" that was available for support subscription customers. We are now making this code available to all…

Spring for Apache Hadoop 1.0 RC1 Released

Releases | Costin Leau | October 17, 2012 | ...

Dear Spring Community,

In time for SpringOne2GX 2012, I am pleased to announce the first release candidate, 1.0 RC1 for Spring for Apache Hadoop:

Downloads | JavaDocs | Reference Documentation | Changelog

RC1 provides important bug fixes and enhancements and introduces new features such as:

  • Template, exception translation and declarative runner for Pig and Hive scripts
  • Enhanced Map/Reduce jar and tool execution to prevent class-loading leaks
  • Refined JVM scripting, M/R, Cascading runners to provide pre/post actions

For more information on Spring for Apache Hadoop, see the project home page for reference documentation and the sample applications. Moreover, you are invited to the upcoming webinar, "Introducing Spring for Apache Hadoop" scheduled for November 8th.

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

Spring Data Redis 1.0.2 Released

Releases | Costin Leau | October 17, 2012 | ...

Dear Spring Community,

Just in time for SpringOne2GX 2012, I am pleased to announce the GA release of Spring Data Redis 1.0.2 project!

Downloads | JavaDocs | Reference Documentation | Changelog

Spring Data Redis 1.0.2 is a maintenance release providing several enhancements:

  • Time-based cache expiration
  • ZSet methods with overloaded offset/count operators

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.

This Week in Spring - 16 October, 2012

Engineering | Josh Long | October 17, 2012 | ...

Welcome to This Week in Spring, SpringOne2GX 2012 edition! I'm putting this together from day 2 of the SpringOne2GX conference in Washington D.C.!

Last night, we kicked off the event with a great keynote by Juergen Hoeller (pictured above), Dr. Mark Pollack, Graeme Rocher, and Adrian Colyer, some amazing break dancing by international dancer Agame, and a mysterious kangaroo (see below)!

This is the premier event for JVM developers, featuring great speakers from VMWare, SpringSource, TypeSafe, Neo4j, and many others speaking on all manner of topics. The week is just kicking off. While the conference is running, there's also going to be a contest to find the best applications built using SpringSource technologies (Spring, Grails) and deployed to Cloud Foundry. I've seen the prizes (above), and I would enter too if I could!

<P> If you're at the show, be sure to stop by the SpringSource and Cloud Foundry booths in the expo hall and pick up shwag and answers to your lingering questions. I'll be there tomorrow, in the evening.</p><P> Anyway, I won't linger <EM>too</EM> much on what you're missing! Let's move on to this week's roundup because, as usual, there's a lot to cover! </p> 
	
	<OL> 
		<LI>Want to learn about what else has happened at SpringOne2GX? Check <a href= "http://www.springsource.org/node/3704">out this fantastic wrap up of day 1</a></LI>
		<LI> The Spring Data release train has finally arrived…

Spring Data release train arrived

Engineering | Oliver Drotbohm | October 15, 2012 | ...

It's a pleasure to announce that we have just released the GA versions of a variety of Spring Data modules. With this release we continue to manifest the commitment of SpringSource to provide Java developers with tools to work with state-of-the-art persistence technologies. In this blog post I'd like to give you detailed insight into what the release includes, why we decided for a release train and a brief outlook into what the next steps on the Spring Data roadmap are.

The release train

Looking back at the way Spring Data modules were developed, release cycles were usually managed by the individual module leads. Given the different pace and maturity of the modules this caused some issues when trying to work with multiple modules at once. Especially the projects depending on Spring Data Commons were suffering from this problem.

We were working hard on minimizing these issues but eventually came to the conclusion that it makes sense to coordinate the…

Spring Data release train arrives

Releases | Oliver Drotbohm | October 15, 2012 | ...

Dear Spring community, I am pleased to announce the synced GA release of the following modules:

There's a more detailled blog post over at the the SpringSource team blog to cover the content of the overall release, the future roadmap etc. Looking forward to your feedback!

Scripted: A JavaScript editor from VMware

Engineering | Andy Clement | October 11, 2012 | ...

The first version of the Scripted code editor has been released this week on github: https://github.com/scripted-editor/scripted.

Although Scripted is a general purpose code editor, the initial focus is building a great JavaScript editing experience. Scripted itself is built entirely in JavaScript and HTML/CSS. It is a browser-based editor that runs locally on a developer's machine with a Node.js instance being used to serve the editor code and perform the editor operations. The only pre-req for running Scripted is that you have a recent version of Node.js installed (we are testing with Node 0.8.11 right now). Scripted reuses the editor component from Eclipse Orion

This Week in Spring - 9th October, 2012

Engineering | Josh Long | October 10, 2012 | ...

Welcome back to another installation of This week in Spring!. There's been a flurry of activity this week at SpringSource as we begin the final leg of the march to SpringOne! We're just a week away, and the show is shaping up every day to be the best show ever! We hope to see you there! Don't miss the day 1 and 2 keynotes from Adrian Colyer, Jurgen Hoeller, Mark Pollack, Graeme Rocher, as well as exciting sessions we've highlighted on SpringSource.org in the last 4 weeks: Going Async - Push Notifications, Client-Side UI Smackdown, Decomposing Applications for Deployability and Scalability, How to build Big Data Pipelines for Hadoop using OSS.

  1. Alvin J Rayes put together a nice post on using Spring MVC 3 with Apache Tiles, the templating engine.
  2. Tool Suites lead Martin Lippert has announced that Spring Tool Suite and Groovy/Grails Tool Suite 3.1.0 have been released! Nice job, Martin!
  3. Spring Security lead Rob Winch has announced that Spring Security 2.0.8, 3.0.8, and 3.1.3 have been released! This brings the total number of outstanding bugs down to 0. Excellent work, Rob!
  4. Have you been following the exciting new blogs from the Spring Integration team on the upcoming Spring Integration 2.2 release's new features?
    	 <A href = "http://blog.springsource.org/2012/10/09/spring-integration-2-2-retry-and-more/">Gary Russell has put together a nice blog on the new support for retry in Spring Integration</A>.  The support for retry capabilities originally comes from Spring Batch's support for retrying  
    	 operations, and was then factored out to the <a href="http://www.github.com/springsource/spring-retry">Spring Retry</A> project. Now, you can take advantage of it in Spring Integration flows!
    
  5. Gunnar Hillert has a nice post on how to use the new adapters in Spring Integration 2.2 to work with JPA.
  6. Learning OAuth? Want to know about the scenarios in which OAuth can help better secure your RESTful APIs? Join Spring ninja Dr. David Syer for his article introducing OAuth, in terms of how Cloud Foundry uses it for the UAA service.
  7. 	<LI> Krishna Prasad has put together some very cool posts recently.  I liked his post on connecting systems using…

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