With the recent release of Spring Data's Evans M1 milestone, Spring Data REST now comes with support for ALPS metadata to describe the semantics of the resources exported.

ALPS is a data format for defining simple descriptions of application-level semantics, similar in complexity to HTML micro-formats. It also supports adding its metadata to existing media types. As of version 2.2 M1, Spring Data REST exposes JSON based ALPS resources that can help us navigate its resources. Let's see how!

We can start with a quick example. If you clone the TODO repo and run mvn spring-boot:run, you can…

Dear Spring Community,

we are happy to announce the next major release of our Eclipse-based tooling today: The Spring Tool Suite (STS) 3.6.0 and the Groovy/Grails Tool Suite (GGTS) 3.6.0.

Highlights from this release include:

• based on Eclipse Luna 4.4
• support for Groovy 2.3
• updated to Grails 2.4
• updated to tc Server 2.9.6
• minor improvements to the Gradle tooling
• bugfixes, including fixes for endless build loops and memory leaks

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

NOTE: Both tool suites ship on top of the latest Eclipse Luna 4.4 release as 64bit and 32bit based zip files only. There will be no native installers for STS/GGTS anymore.

From now on, we shift towards a slightly changed release schedule, shipping minor releases more frequently. Therefore 3.6.1 is scheduled to ship on…

Today we are pleased to announce the release of Spring Batch 3.0.1, Spring Batch Admin 1.3.0.RC1, and introduce the Spring Batch Extensions project. These releases in addition to the Spring Batch Extensions project address a number of improvements and issues.

Spring Batch 3.0.1

This release of Spring Batch consists mainly of bug fixes, however, one new feature was added: ScriptItemProcessor. This ItemProcessor implementation provides the ability to use an external or inline script to provide the logic of your processor. An example of using Groovy inline would look something like this:

@Bean
public ScriptItemProcessor processor() {
    ScriptItemProcessor<String, Object> scriptItemProcessor = new ScriptItemProcessor<String, Object>();

    scriptItemProcessor.setScriptSource("item.toUpperCase();", "groovy");
    scriptItemProcessor.afterPropertiesSet();

    return scriptItemProcessor;
}

This ItemProcessor allows full support of all JSR-223 scripting options.

Spring Batch Admin 1.3.0.RC1

Spring Batch Admin 1.3.0.RC1 addresses a number of issues as well as updated it to be used with the Spring Batch 2.2.x version of the job repository and beyond. In addition to the issues addressed, we also completed a number of dependency updates to bring the project up to date from that perspective.

To support the users of Spring Batch 2.2.x, this release contains the Spring Batch Integration module and still uses Spring Integration 3. However, Spring Batch 3.0 saw us move this module to Spring Batch and so this will be the last release of Spring Batch Admin that contains this module. Going forward, users will be expected to use the version included within Spring Batch.

Spring Batch Extensions

Finally, we are happy to announce a new repository for Spring Batch, Spring Batch Extensions. This project provides a home for community contributed modules akin to Spring Integration Extensions. With this announcement, we have our first contribution, the spring-batch-elasticsearch module. This module provides an ItemReader and an ItemWriter for interacting with Elasticsearch. You can find information about this module and other contributions on Github. We look forward to future contributions from the community to help expand the available use cases for Spring Batch.

Please share your feedback on Stack Overflow, social media, and in person at SpringOne2GX!

We are happy to announce the first milestone of the Spring Data Release train Evans.

• Spring Data Commons 1.9 M1 - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data JPA 1.7 M1 - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data MongoDB 1.6 M1 - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data Neo4j 3.2 M1 - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data Solr 1.3 M1 - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data Couchbase 1.2 M1 - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data Cassandra 1.1 M1 - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data Elasticsearch 1.1 M1 - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - …

We are pleased to announce that Spring Framework 4.0.6 has just been released and is now available from maven central and repo.spring.io. This is a bugfix and minor enhancement release in the 4.0 series. This release includes nearly 50 bug fixes and improvements and we recommend that all users upgrade.

For a complete list of changes, please refer to JIRA

We are pleased to announce that Spring Boot 1.1.4 has been released and is available from repo.spring.io and Maven Central.

This release addresses a number of bugs, adds support for the first stable release of Tomcat 8 (8.0.9), and also provides improved logging configuration that allows you to configure logging levels in application.properties or application.yaml. For a complete list of changes please refer to the issue tracker.

Thanks again to everyone who has contributed to the project.

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We are pleased to announce that Spring for Apache Hadoop 2.0.1 has just been released and is now available from maven central and repo.spring.io. This release updates some dependency versions. The Apache Hadoop 2.4 support (hadoop24) is updated to use version 2.4.1. The Spring Framework version is updated to 4.0.6.RELEASE, Spring Batch updated to 3.0.1.RELEASE and Spring Boot updated to 1.1.4.RELEASE.

We are pleased to announce that the first maintenance release of Spring IO Platform has been released. It's available from both repo.spring.io and Maven Central.

This release upgrades the versions of a number of the projects in the Platform to pick up their latest maintenance releases:

• Spring AMQP 1.3.5
• Spring Boot 1.1.4
• Spring Batch 3.0.1
• Spring for Apache Hadoop 2.0.1
• Spring Framework 4.0.6

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I'm pleased to announce the release of Spring Session 1.0.0.M1.

Benefits

This project provides a number of benefits including:

• Accessing a session from any environment (i.e. web, messaging infrastructure, etc)
• In a web environment
  • Support for clustering in a vendor neutral way
  • Pluggable strategy for determining the session id
  • Easily keep the HttpSession alive when a WebSocket is active

Getting Started

Refer to the Quick Start section of the README to learn how to you can use Spring Session in your application.

Feedback Please

If you have feedback, I encourage you to reach out via github issues, via the comments section, or ping me on twitter @rob…