I'd like to announce the availablity of new milestone and bugfix releases of Spring Data Commons (1.3.2.RELEASE, 1.4.0.M1), JPA (1.1.1.RELEASE, 1.2.0.M1) and MongoDB (1.0.3.RELEASE, 1.1.0.M2). The releases mark the very first step to a common release train that will reach the next major release mid August and include Spring Data Commons, JPA, MongoDB, Neo4J and Gemfire. The release train is an effort to simultaneously release all store modules that support the repository abstraction and thus have a common set of functionality to provide. Beyond that this will make sure the released stores interoperate with each other seamlessly.

This first milestone release includes support for JavaConfig based repository configuration by introducing @EnableJpaRepositories, @EnableMongoRepository etc. Beyond that we of course have a ton of bug fixes and improvements. For details follow the links below.

We'll have release candidates for the next major versions out there in early August, followed by the GA versions briefly after that. For more detailled information on the release train please have a look at the wiki page in Spring Data Commons.

• Spring Data Commons 1.3.2.RELEASE
  Maven artifacts | JavaDocs | Reference Documentation | Changelog
• Spring Data Commons 1.4.0.M1
  Maven artifacts | JavaDocs | Reference Documentation | Changelog

• Spring Data JPA 1.1.1.RELEASE
  Maven artifacts | JavaDocs | Reference Documentation | Changelog
• Spring Data JPA 1.2.0.M1
  Maven artifacts | JavaDocs | Reference Documentation | Changelog

• Spring Data MongoDB 1.0.3.RELEASE
  Maven artifacts | JavaDocs | Reference Documentation | Changelog
• Spring Data MongoDB 1.1.0.M2
  Maven artifacts | JavaDocs | Reference Documentation | Changelog

The bugfix versions are available from the SpringSource release repository and will be synced to Maven central in a bit, the milestones from our milestone repository. Looking forward to your feedback in the forums or the bug tracker.

Dear Spring Community,

I am pleased to announce the first milestone release of Spring Shell project! Spring Shell is an interactive shell that can be easily extended with commands using a Spring based programming model, extracted from the Spring Roo project.

Downloads | JavaDocs | Reference Documentation | Changelog

For more information about Spring Shell please see the home page.

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

Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This week, the SpringSource and Cloud Foundry teams are OSCON talking about open source enterprise and cloud computing with anybody and everybody. If you're in the region, be sure to check out the SpringSource and Cloud Foundry booth in the exhibition hall!

1. The Spring Data team is working on a book with O'Reilly on Spring Data. If you want to preview and feedback, now's your chance!
2. Are you using Spring Data Commons support for repositories? How would you feel about support for Java-centric configuration? Check out the new support for Java-configuration in Spring Data!

<LI> The Java Beginner's tutorial blog has a quick post on  <a href = "http://javabeginnerstutorial.com/spring-framework-tutorial/configure-hsqldb-java-spring/">how to use the embedded database namespace that debuted in Spring 3.0</A>. The <a href = "http://static.springsource.org/spring/docs/3.1.x/spring-framework-reference/htmlsingle/spring-framework-reference.html#jdbc-embedded-database-support">namespace</A> is great if you want to setup H2, HSQL and Derby instances quickly and then specify initialization <CODE>.SQL</CODE> statements or scripts to run to initialize the database to a…

This video discusses the options for managing and monitoring applications that use Spring Integration. Topics covered include:

• using the Spring Integration plugin for Spring Insight to get a real-time view of your applications and its performance
• using the Integration MBean Exporter and the MBeans it registers for analyzing messaging endpoints and channels
• exporting the Integration MBean Exporter itself as an MBean, to gain access to its attributes and operations
• using the <control-bus /> to start and stop endpoints
• enabling and using Message History
• previewing the orderly shutdown mechanisms being built into Spring Integration 2.2

Be sure to thumbs up the presentation if you find it useful and subscribe to the SpringSourceDev channel to see other recordings and screencasts.

Welcome back to another installment of This Week in Spring. This week, I'm at JAX in San Francisco. We're having a good time, and happily answering questions from community members. As usual, though, we've got a lot to cover, so let's get on with the show.

1. Martin Lippert has announced the latest versions of SpringSource Tool Suite and the Groovy and Grails Tool Suites.
2. Chris Beams has announced that Spring 3.1.2 has been released!

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   <LI> Rob Winch has announced that <A href = "http://www.springsource.org/node/3588">Spring Security 3.1.1 has been released!  	</A>
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    <LI>  Costin Leau has announced that <A href = "http://www.springsource.org/node/3588">Spring GemFire 1.1.2 has been released!  	</A>
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    <LI>   The Tech Annotation page has a great post on using some of  <a href = "http://techannotation.wordpress.com/2012/07/05/remoting-spring-rmi-and-http/">Spring's remoting technologies, RMI and HTTP invoker, to expose objects  to remote clients</A>.  </LI> 
   
   
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   	Chris Haddad  has   put together a…

Dear Spring Community,

I am pleased to announce the availability of the third milestone build of the upcoming Spring Tool Suite 3.0.0 and the Groovy/Grails Tool Suite 3.0.0.

Among the highlights of this milestone release:

• ships on top of Eclipse Juno 4.2 release
• includes Groovy-Eclipse 2.7.0 release, which includes Groovy 2.0 compiler support
• includes AJDT 2.2.0 release and AspectJ 1.7.0 release (including Java7 support)
• new support for Spring Data (content-asisst, validation)
• simplified template project authoring and hosting

For more details about new and changed features, please refer to the New and Noteworthy for 3.0.0.M3 document.

If you come across incompatibilities, migration problems, bugs, or any other suggestions, please provide feedback in the forum and file issues via JIRA.

Downloads are available from the official STS download page, take a look at the section for „Other Downloads“.

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The second maintenance release in the Spring 3.1.x line is now available via Maven Central, the SpringSource repository, or for direct download from our community download page. This release includes many important bugfixes and minor improvements and is a recommended upgrade.

Cheers!

Download | Documentation | Javadoc API | Change Log | JIRA

We're pleased to an announce the GA release of Spring Security 3.1.1

The release is available from the Spring Community Downloads area and jars are available from Maven central repository. See the project website for more information.

Changelog | Download | Reference Manual | FAQ

Dear Spring Community,

I am pleased to announce the GA release of Spring GemFire 1.1.2 project is now available!

Downloads | JavaDocs | Reference Documentation | Changelog

To learn more about the project, visit the Spring GemFire Homepage.

1.1.2 is mainly a maintenance release providing several enhancements on the configuration front. See the changelog for more details.