Dear Spring Community,

I am happy to announce the second milestone release 3.2.0.M2 of the Spring Tool Suite (STS) and the Groovy/Grails Tool Suite (GGTS).

Highlights from this milestone build include:

• a lot of overall performance improvements, especially for the Spring tooling
• improvements to Live Beans Graph feature
• improved Spring Data code completion and validation
• Grails 2.2 included in the GGTS distribution and available on the dashboard
• Groovy 2.0.6 compiler now included in the GGTS distribution.

Both tool suites ship on top of the latest Eclipse Juno SR2 maintenance builds (not yet the final Eclipse Juno SR2 release). We still recommend to use the Eclipse-3.8-based versions of STS and GGTS for optimal performance.

The 3.2.0 release is scheduled for early March 2013 - shortly after the Eclipse Juno SR2 release.

To download the distributions, please go visit:

• Spring Tool Suite: http://www.springsource.org/sts
• Groovy/Grails Tool Suite: http://grails.org/products/ggts

Enjoy!

SpringSource would like to announce the release of Spring Hateoas 0.4!

The Spring HATEOAS project provides some APIs to ease creating REST representations that follow the HATEOAS principle when working with Spring and especially Spring MVC. HATEOAS, an abbreviation for Hypermedia as the Engine of Application State, is a constraint of the REST application architecture that distinguishes it from most other network application architectures. The core problem it tries to address is link creation and representation assembly.

In this release, the most important new features are:

- extended LinkBuilder API to point to Controller *methods* as well
- Jackson 2 support
- HAL support
- EntityLinks API to create links pointing to controllers managing a particular entity type
- introduced LinkDiscoverer API to find links in representations by rel (incl. JSONPath based implementation)

You can read about all of the new features and bug fixes in the change log. Enjoy!

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Welcome back to another installation of This Week in Spring ! I've been visiting developers and companies in India, China, and Japan. It's been an exciting time to see what these emerging and powerful countries are doing with open source and with Spring, in particular! Of course, stay tuned to the SpringSource blog in the coming weeks some very cool examples and details!

In the meantime, as usual, we've got quite a bit of news to cover this week, including more news on the Spring 4 roadmap announcement from last week. If you want to get the absolute latest, check out the Spring 3.2 GA webinar replay on YouTube, where Spring Framework 4.0 is covered a bit toward the end. Let's get to it!

1. Charles Humble at InfoQ's done a nice interview with Juergen Hoeller and write up of the Spring 4 announcement .
2. The Spring Integration 2.2.1 and 2.1.5 maintenance releases are now generally available.

		<LI>Spring HATEOAS 0.4 was <a href="http://www.springsource.org/node/3796">released</a>, adding Jackson and HAL support.</LI>

3. Two new SpringOne 2GX 2012 Replays have been released to our YouTube Channel: Tooling for the Javascript Era, An Introduction to Broadleaf Commerce
4. We've launched a page to centralize all the SpringOne2GX 2012 recordings, check it out!
5. Chris Beams, Gunnar Hillert, and Rossen Stoyanchev were recorded in well-received presentation Introducing WebSockets at SpringOne2GX 2012, now online on InfoQ!
6. Blogger Ilias Tsagklis from the Java Code Geeks blog also has a nice post on the Spring 4.0 roadmap announcement.
7. Chris Beams has announced that Spring 3.1.4 has been released!
8. Marty Pitt has created a very nice extension - he's calling it BakeHouse- for Spring web applications that preprocesses web artifacts for consumption in your web application at application startup. There are various kinds of pre processing possible:
   • Less for your CSS
   • Concatenate and minify your Javascript
   • Maybe even use some Typescript or CoffeeScript, which needs to be compiled
   This is a very cool extension, Marty! It's like what I always wanted things like JAWR to be! The thing I most like about it, though? The fluid use of Spring Java @Configuration classes! Really slick and productive!
9. The Japanese portal Public Key has a nice writeup of the announced roadmap for Spring 4.0
10. The Just Enough Architecture blog has a nice post on using ActiveMQ, Spring Integration and MongoDB together - cool! I might've used Spring Batch's flat file reading support instead of a custom one out of the box, though, overall, this is an awesome post!
11. Blogger madhav has a nice look at the code to support table and class inheritance using Spring Data JPA. That said, it's really hard to read as the code is not indented at all!
12. Noushin Bashir has put together a nice post on how to configure ActiveMQ with SSL and then connect to it from Spring.

	<LI>  Allard Buijze over at Trifork has announced <a href= "http://blog.trifork.nl/2013/01/22/axon-framework-2-0-released/"> version 2.0 of…

We are pleased to announce that Spring Integration 2.2.1.RELEASE is now available. A list of changes can be found here.

In addition, the 2.1.5.RELEASE is now available, with the list of changes here. However, 2.1.x users are encouraged to move to the 2.2.1 release - the 2.2. GA announcement is here.

The artifacts are available in the SpringSource Repository as well as Maven Central, or you can download the zip here.

The Groovy team is pleased to announce the release of Groovy 2.1.0.

With over 1.7 million downloads in 2012, a strong ecosystem of successful projects like Grails, Gradle, Spock or Griffon built on Groovy, the Groovy programming language continues its development and adoption, refines existing features and evolves new ones.

In this new release, Groovy 2.1:

• offers full support for the JDK 7 “invoke dynamic” bytecode instruction and API,
• goes beyond conventional static type checking capabilities with a special annotation to assist with documentation and type safety of Domain-Specific Languages and adds static type checker extensions,
• provides additional compilation customization options,
• features a meta-annotation facility for combining annotations elegantly,
• and provides various other enhancements and minor improvements.

Please read all the details about the new features and improvements in the Groovy 2.1 release notes document.

You can download Groovy 2.1.0 from the Download area, and have a look at the JIRA tickets we worked on.

The Groovy team is looking…

SpringSource would like to announce the release of Spring Batch 2.2.0.M1!

This milestone release contains about 50/50 bug fixes and new features. This new release includes:

• Updates to the archetype.  It is now useful (pipes a file to a database by default) and provides packaging/execute scripts out of the box.
• Added the ability to provide your own Serializer implementation for use with the job repository.
• Added a new AmqpItemReader and AmqpItemWriter.
• Added @Configuration support to allow for java based configuration of jobs and steps

You can read about all of the new features and bug fixes in the change log. Enjoy!

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We recently released 0.3 of the Scripted Editor, and we are making fast progress towards our next release. One of the major goals of Scripted Editor 0.4 is extensibility and part of the extensibility story is a simple, extensible templating mechanism (the other part is a powerful plugin model, which will be described in a future blog post). In this post, I will introduce custom code completions and templates for the Scripted editor.

Sublime Text is an excellent, general purpose editor. It is highly configurable and many users of Scripted also use Sublime. Because of this, we want to make extensions to Sublime compatible with Scripted where it makes sense. One of these areas is sublime-completions files. These files specify lists of completions for a given content type (typically mapped to file…

The fourth 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 over 50 bugfixes and improvements and is a recommended upgrade for all users.

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Dear Spring Community, I am pleased to announce the second, and last planned, release candidate, 1.0 RC2 for Spring for Apache Hadoop:

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RC2 provides bug fixes and improvements and enhances the overall usability:

• Introduced dedicated namespace for Cascading
• Enhanced compatibility with Cloudera CDH3 and 4 and Greenplum HD 1.x
• Cascading, Pig and MapReduce batch tasklet expose the execution stats
• Refined threading for MapReduce jobs including safe job cancellation
• Overhauled reference documentation and samples

For the full list of changes, refer to the changelog. For more information on Spring for Apache Hadoop, see the project home page for reference documentation and the sample applications.

For a quick introduction to Spring for Apache Hadoop, see this <webinar|http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wlTnBzQ6KDU> or the reference…