It's my pleasure to announce that we've released the first milestone of Spring Migration Analyzer (SMA), a command-line utility that analyzes enterprise Java applications and produces a report describing the application and how it can be migrated to Spring.

Why migrate an application to Spring?

We see two main reasons when people choose to use Spring. Firstly, Spring offers the greatest range of deployment options including cloud and PaaS, allowing you to deploy your application to lighter-weight runtimes with lower operating costs. Secondly, as Adrian recently explained Spring provides access to a host of technologies that are at the forefront of enterprise Java.

When it comes to considering the migration of an existing application to Spring, it's typically the deployment flexibility that motivates the move as it can significantly reduce the application's operating costs.

Using SMA to analyze an application

To get started with SMA, download the distribution. Once it's downloaded, unzip it:

unzip spring-migration-analyzer-1.0.0.M1-dist.zip

With JAVA_HOME set, you can then run the migration-analysis script to…

Dear Spring Community,

We are pleased to announce the first milestone release of Spring Social 1.1.0!

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.

Along with Spring Social 1.1.0, we are also releasing milestones for Spring Social Facebook 1.1.0 and Spring Social Twitter 1.1.0.

These 1.1.0.M1 releases include the following:

• Easier XML and Java configuration.
• Tighter adherence to the latest OAuth 2 specification drafts, including HTTP Basic client authentication and support for Resource Owner Credentials Grant and Client Credentials Grant.
• Updates to both the Facebook and Twitter API bindings, including binding to version 1.1 of Twitter's API.
• Support for OpenGraph operations in the Facebook API binding.
• Support for Facebook Query Language (FQL).

In addition, several smaller enhancements and bug fixes were applied.

To get the software, download the release distribution (Core | Facebook | Twitter).

As always, the Spring Social community has been awesome at providing feedback and contributing pull requests to make this release possible. A special thanks to Jeremy Appel for contributing a rather large pull request to bring the Spring Social Twitter API binding in line with version 1.1 of Twitter's API.

These milestone releases mark the first step toward Spring Social 1.1.0. We plan to increase momentum on these milestone releases up to the 1.1.0 GA release, so expect another milestone release in the next few weeks. If you'd like to follow along or contribute, we encourage you to participate in the Spring Social Forum, report bugs or suggest enhancements, or to fork the code and contribute back via pull requests.

We are pleased to announce that Spring Integration 2.2.0.RC3 is now available in the milestones repository.

Release notes can be found here.

Links to downloads and the documentation can be found on the project home page.

It is anticipated that this will be the final release candidate, with the GA release being available shortly.

Many thanks to the community members who have tried out the earlier milestones and provided valuable feedback.

Wow! Guys, can you believe we are again staring down the end of the year? Time sure flies! In the US, this is the week of Thanksgiving, a holiday where we're supposed to take a moment and reflect upon the things for which we're grateful. I am (and I'm sure I speak for the team in saying that we are..) eternally grateful for you guys, the wonderful, vibrant and engaging community surrounding Spring, RabbitMQ and Cloud Foundry that makes putting together this roundup such a pleasure every week.

With that, let's get on with the news:

1. Thomas Risberg has announced that the Cloud Foundry Maven plugin 1.0.0.M4 is now available.

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    <LI>Did you miss out at <A href="http://springone2gx.com/conference/washington/2012/10/home">SpringOneOne2GX 2012  in Washington D.C.</a>?  Don't fret. We'll release 2 sessions every week on <a href="http://www.springsource.org/SpringOne2012Recordings">springsource.org</a>. We've already released Day 1 and 2 Keynotes. Available now:  a talk from Rossen Stoyanchev on "What's New in Spring Mvc 3.2" and a talk from Roy Clarkson and Craig Walls on "Extending Spring Mvc With Spring Mobile and Javascript."
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   <LI> Our friend Tobias Trelle is at it again! This week, he's   <A…

Scripted, a JavaScript editor from VMWare was announced on this blog last month. In this article we'll take a look under the hood at Scripted's Dependency Analysis Engine. But before diving into the details, lets motivate why we need it.

Main Motivation: Cross-file Content Assist

To provide a great JavaScript editing experience, Scripted needs to provide accurate suggestions about the functions, methods or identifiers you can use in your current editor context.

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Two components work together to achieve this goal:

• a fine-grained type inference analysis engine
• a coarse-grained dependency analysis engine

The inference engine parses your code and walks every declaration, statement and expression. This allows it to determine what identifiers are valid in a given context, and make good guesses about the kinds of things that may be stored in these variables. This information is then used to make content assist suggestions.

If you wanted to simply put all your code into one big file, then a good quality inferencer alone would be sufficient to provide some pretty good content assist. In reality, projects will be divided…

 

What's New in Spring MVC 3.2

Extending Spring MVC with Spring Mobile and JavaScript

Welcome back to another installment of This Week in Spring! I started this week back in the lovely Sofia, Bulgaria for the Cloud Foundry Open Tour event, talking to a packed audience about building Spring applications on Cloud Foundry. Now, I'm in Antwerp, Belgium, at the Devoxx conference where I'll present on what's new in Spring 3.2, Cloud Foundry and more. If you're here, I invite you to come visit the SpringSource booth and see some of the talks on Spring that I - and others - will be giving.

1. 		Roy Clarkson has announced not one, but two releases of Spring  Mobile this week! 
   

   Spring Android 1.0.1 has been released. This release includes a change to support BlackBerry 10 mobile devices. BlackBerry 10 mobile devices are now resolved as a mobile device when using the LiteDeviceResolver. Then, he released the
   1.1.0.M1 release, which folds in the 1.0.1 support as well as tablet support in site preference handling and site switching, support for Java-based container configuration, and support for servlet based configurations.

2. Thomas Risberg has announced the GA release of Spring Data JDBC extensions with QueryDSL and Advanced Oracle support.
3. There's a lot of interesting…

Dear Spring Community,

We are happy to announce the release of Spring Mobile 1.1.0.M1!

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

This release includes a number of new features, including BlackBerry 10 device detection, tablet support in site preference handling and site switching, support for Java-based container configuration, and support for servlet based configurations. See the changelog and reference manual for more information.

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.M1 and collaborate with us on the next iteration of the project.

Dear Spring Community,

We are happy to announce the release of Spring Mobile 1.0.1!

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

This release includes a change to support BlackBerry 10 mobile devices. BlackBerry 10 mobile devices are now resolved as a mobile device when using the LiteDeviceResolver. See the changelog and reference manual for more information.

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 1.0.1 and collaborate with us on the next iteration of the project.