Dear Spring community, I am pleased to announce the next Spring Data release train stop, including Spring Data JPA, MongoDB, Neo4j, Gemfire as well as its foundation Spring Data Commons. The release is the final one before bringing all the modules into GA state of their next major version. Here are the highlights:

All modules

• Depend on Spring 3.1.2 by default. The modules are still fully compatible with Spring 3.0.7 but users have to manually declare Spring dependencies in they Maven pom.xml files if they'd like to use the older version. Note that some of the features included in this release (e.g. the usage of @EnableRepositories) require Spring 3.1.0 at least.
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The Spring Integration team proudly announces the availability of the Spring Integration Extensions repository. The main goal for this new GitHub-based repository is to promote a vibrant community of adapter and extension developers, and to encourage a broader segment of the community to contribute to the project. The Spring Integration Extensions project is hosted at:

• https://github.com/SpringSource/spring-integration-extensions

This new repository will give us the flexibility to incorporate new contributions much more rapidly, without having to go through the core Spring Integration framework’s stricter vetting process. Since each community contributed extension is a separate project in the Spring Integration Extensions repository, it will have its own release life-cycle independent from the one that governs the core Spring Integration framework. As a result, this will allow for more frequent releases.

Over time, we expect that some of the lesser used Spring Integration modules may transition into the Extensions repository. On the other hand, for some extension modules, the Spring Integration Extensions project may also serve as an incubator, whereby they may eventually be incorporated into the core Spring Integration framework.

Thanks to several community contributions, the new repository already provides several adapters such as the XQuery Adapter (incl. support for XPath 2.0) and the SMB Adapter. Several adapters around Amazon Web Services (AWS) will be added in the coming weeks (Amazon S3, Amazon SNS, Amazon SQS). Furthermore, we are providing an early version of a Print Adapter and we are also working on an adapter providing WebSocket support using Atmosphere.

How Can I Become a Contributor?

If you have an idea regarding new extensions and/or adapters, please feel free to file a JIRA ticket. If you have already created an extension module and you want to contribute code, please fork the Spring Integration Extensions repository, add your module and issue a pull request. Before we can merge your code, though, you have to fill out the Contributor License Agreement. Once submitted, we and/or other community members will review your pull request and merge it. For much more detailed information, please take a closer look at the Contributor Guidelines for the Spring Integration Extensions project.

Creating New Spring Integration Extension Modules

One of the more popular extension types are Spring Integration Adapters. In order to simplify the process of writing custom adapters for Spring Integration, we now provide an Adapter Template for SpringSource Tool Suite (STS) 3.0.0. This template will make it very easy for contributors to build out new adapters quickly, while still ensuring consistency with those provided in the core Spring Integration framework (package structure, naming conventions, namespace handlers/parsers, etc).

The Spring Integration Adapter Template, which is part of the Spring Integration Templates project, creates a fully functional Spring Integration Module, and the template will create the following commonly used components:

• Inbound Channel Adapter
• Outbound Channel Adapter
• Outbound Gateway

The template will not only create the core Java classes and some basic unit tests, but it will also provide XML Namespace support, which includes the XML Schema and the associated parser classes. Even if you create other types of components, this template should still give you valuable insights into how to develop those. For more information on using STS Templates for Spring Integration, please see the following blog posting:

• Creating Spring Integration Projects Using STS.

The created adapter project will use Gradle as its build tool, and it closely follows the build tasks as defined for Spring Integration:

Build the Adapter project

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Install the Adapter project to your local Maven repository

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    $ ./gradlew install

Generate the JavaDoc

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    $ ./gradlew api

Generate metrics using Sonar

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    $ ./gradlew sonar

Build the complete distribution

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For more information please see How to Create New Components on the Spring Integration Extensions Wiki.

Further Resources

• JIRA
• Forums
• Build Server
• Metrics

Spring Integration GitHub Repositories

For completeness, here is a list of all Spring Integration relevant GitHub repositories:

• Spring Integration
• Spring Integration Extensions
• Spring Integration Samples
• Spring Integration Templates
• Spring Integration Dsl Groovy
• Spring Integration Dsl Scala

Spring AMQP provides the familiar benefits of the Spring programming model to AMQP and, specifically, Rabbit MQ.

We are pleased to announce the availability of the 1.1.2 maintenance release of spring-amqp for Java, which includes a number of important bug fixes.

For more information, refer to the project home page.

Spring Integration 2.2.0.M4 - the fourth and final milestone release of the 2.2 stream, including a number of important features and improvements, is now available.

• Release notes are available here.
• Artifacts are available in the SpringSource repo and the community download page.

More information is available on the project's home page.

Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This roundup is put together by aggregating lots of great content from all around the web. If you have content suggestions, or if you simply want a direct line to some of the content that we post, check us out on Twitter, and Google+. As usual, we've got a lot to go over, so let's dive into it.

1. Up first this week, there is a lot of new content available on the SpringSource Dev YouTube channel.

   Copy	The video from  Spring Data Neo4J lead Michael Hunger's excellent webinar <a href = "http://www.springsource.org/node/3632">introducing Spring Data Neo4j</a> is also available. 
   

   The video from VMWare engineer Jerry Kuch's webinar providing an update on the new features in RabbitMQ is also available. Finally, the video from the webinar that Ken Rimple, Srini Penchikala, and I did introducing how to more fully exploit Spring Roo's interactive add-on mechanism is available.

2. Spring Security OAuth lead Dr. David Syer has announced that Spring Security OAuth 1.0.0.RC2 is now available.

Copy	<LI> Remember our pal Tobias Trelle? He's got another fantastic article that's been published on InfoQ called <a…

View this webinar for a practical guide to get started with Spring Data Neo4j the integration library for the Neo4j graph database. This webinar is the perfect complement to the Good Relationships book and is aimed toward those interested in quickly learning how to get started using Spring Data Neo4j.

During this webinar we will cover:

• Spring Data Neo4j's features and benefits
• Spring Data Neo4j use case: A twitter-graph app using Spring Data Neo4j with Spring Social
• Step by step demo to get started working on Spring Data Neo4j

Spring Data Neo4j is part of the Spring Data project which aims to provide convenient support for NoSQL databases.

Please also see the follow-up blog post which answers all questions from the Q&A section and links to sourcecode and slides.

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

Most of you probably know Spring Roo as the Java-based rapid application development tool that uses AspectJ and a command-line shell to build Spring applications. But underneath those slick commands that set up your application components lurks an even more powerful and extensible platform, one that you can use to build anything you want.

In this presentation, SpringSource's Josh Long and Spring Roo in Action authors Ken Rimple and Srini Penchikala introduce Spring Roo 1.2, and then go further, exposing Roo's powerful addon-based underbelly. They introduce Roo's OSGi bundle support, and introduce how add-ons can be used to generate code, install templates, respond to addition / removal of annotations, and expose both open-source and internal-company libraries for use by your developers. Finally, they wrap up by discussing the recently developed Tailor add-on, and will show how it can be used to completely customize your developers' shell environment.

Presenters: Ken Rimple, Srini Penchikala, and Josh Long

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

#spring #security #oauth 1.0.0.RC2 is released today http://bit.ly/xfE5PM. Download via github or Maven (SpringSource milestone repository).

Highlights:

• Better error responses from the framework endpoints
• Fixed some issues with validation and enhancement of token contents

Enjoy!

Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! As usual, we've got a lot to cover, so let's get to it.

1. The SpringSource Tool Suite has been open sourced! And, two different versions of it are now available, supporting two different developers: the Spring developer, served by the Spring Tool Suite, and the Groovy and Grails developer, served by the Groovy/Grails Tool Suite. For more on this fantastic news, check out Tool Suites-lead Martin Lippert's blog.
2. Spring Security lead Rob Winch announced the latest version of Spring Security, version 3.1.2, has been released.

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   <LI> The ZeroTurnaround blog has a <EM> really</EM> cool little blog on rapid development with Spring and Hibernate. 
   	 Of course, Zero Turnaround has a handy little software agent that lets you reload Java classes on the fly. So that's a <EM>huge</EM> gain in productivity right there. That, coupled with XML-free Spring 3.1 and Hibernate 4.1, and you have yourself a <Em>really</EM> awesome combination. To learn more, check out the blog!  The example he illustrates are also well <a href = "http://github.com/cloudfoundry-samples/springmvc-hibernate-template">represented in this sample…