SpringSource Tool Suite 2.9.1 released

News | Martin Lippert | March 23, 2012 | ...

Dear Spring Community,

 

We're pleased to announce the update release 2.9.1 of the SpringSource Tool Suite (STS).

 

This update improves the Spring Integration graphical editing experience and fixes a performance problem with the content-assist in the Java editor when working inside a Spring project.

 

More details on new features and bug fixes can be found in the New and Noteworthy document. Detailed installation instructions are also available. As always downloads are available from the STS download page.

Cloud Foundry Integration for Eclipse 1.0 released

News | Martin Lippert | March 23, 2012 | ...

I am happy to announce the first release of the Cloud Foundry Integration for Eclipse 1.0.

This release features:

  • deploying, updating, starting, stopping apps directly from your workspace
  • supports Java/Web, Java/Spring, Groovy/Grails and Scala/Lift apps
  • service creating and binding (directly at deploy time or later)
  • instance scaling and statistics
  • remote file browsing directly integrated
  • full debugging support for Micro Cloud Foundry
  • improved incremental update performance
  • integrated into Eclipse and STS

And, last but not least, the project is now open-source under the EPL and available from GitHub: https://github.com/SpringSource/eclipse-integration-cloudfoundry

You can install it into STS (2.9.0 or higher required) using the STS Dashboard or directly into a plain Eclipse JEE package (Indigo recommended) using the Eclipse Marketplace.

Attention: if you have a previous version of the Cloud Foundry tooling installed (the old milestone or nightly builds, having the old STS version…

This Week in Spring: March 20th, 2012

Engineering | Adam Fitzgerald | March 20, 2012 | ...

Hello and welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! As usual, we've got some great stuff to look at, so let's get to it.

  1. 	Want to use SpringSource Tool Suite on the <a href = "http://blog.springsource.org/2012/03/14/early-access-springsource-tool-suite-for-eclipse-juno-4-2/">latest Eclipse Juno (4.2) milestone builds</A>? 
    	SpringSource Tool Suite lead Martin Lippert has got the answer for you.
    	  </LI>
    
    
    <LI> Michal Borek  has a great blog post on how to use the <a href = "http://www.greenpath.pl/2012/03/spring-framework-and-file-upload/"><CODE>ConversionService</CODE> in Spring 3.0+ to convert uploaded file data into a domain object</A>. First, this is a <EM>really</EM> cool idea. Second, users should be…

Early Access: SpringSource Tool Suite for Eclipse Juno (4.2)

Engineering | Martin Lippert | March 14, 2012 | ...

Wanna use the SpringSource Tool Suite on the latest Eclipse Juno (4.2) milestone builds? Here you go: :-)

How to install

The necessary dependencies for STS are all available from the composite update site: http://dist.springsource.com/snapshot/TOOLS/composite/e4.2, if you wanna add something manually.

Managing update sites yourself

Here are the individual update sites from which you can install STS, AJDT and Groovy-Eclipse for Juno (4.2):

Known limitations

Since the Eclipse Juno distribution is based on the Eclipse 4.x stream, you will notice quite some changes on the UI when starting the latest Eclipse Juno builds. And we haven't yet adapted to all changes, therefore the Maven support of STS (for example) is not yet working. If you observe anything else, please let us know.

Feedback

This is an early access version of STS that is continually updated by our CI servers. If you observe problems running STS on top of your Eclipse Juno (4.2) M5 (or later) installation, please let us know and report issues to: https://issuetracker.springsource.com/browse/STS. Since we are planning towards a distribution on top of Eclipse Juno for STS 3.0, we would be very happy to hear your opinion about that and gather feedback as early as possible.

Outlook

We are planning towards an STS 3.0 release right after the Eclipse Juno release in July 2012, providing ready-to-go-distributions of STS based on Eclipse Juno.

Spring 3.1 Release Train Complete, Spring More Popular Than Ever

Releases | Adam Fitzgerald | March 14, 2012 | ...
Spring 3.1 Release Train Complete

In a press release today, SpringSource and VMware announced that the Spring 3.1 Release Train is complete. Spring Integration, Spring Security, Spring Batch, Spring Data, Spring Mobile and Spring for Android all now support Spring 3.1, making it easier and faster for enterprise developers to build the next generation of enterprise applications.

The press release also highlighted important findings from Evans Data Research regarding the growing popularity and benefits of using Spring. More than two thirds of Java developers are either using Spring today or plan to do so within the next two years and those that do use Spring are 50% more productive.

SpringSource would like to thank all of the amazing community members that made this release possible. Community contributions form an important part of many of the projects and all the users that experimented with milestone and release candidate versions help substantially in making sure that Spring technology is high quality and production ready. Work is already underway on many other exciting projects like the recently announced Spring for Apache Hadoop project. Community members are invited to attend the upcoming SpringOne on the Road events to meet the Spring experts and learn about the latest features available with Spring.

Video: Native Android Development with Spring

News | Adam Fitzgerald | March 13, 2012 | ...

This video will provide an introductory overview of Android’s architecture, the layout of an Android project, the use of various Maven plugins and tools for enabling dependency management in your Android project. When building Android apps, you can use a third party library, like Spring for Android, that provides an abstraction for consuming RESTful services within your native Android app. Spring Android also supports the use of Spring Social on Android, and this presentation will discuss how Spring Social can help you connect your apps to OAuth protected services like Facebook and Twitter.

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

Video: SpringOne 2GX - Spring Integration Tips 'N Tricks

News | Josh Long | March 13, 2012 | ...
SpringOne 2GX 2011 Tech Talk: Spring Integration Tips 'n Tricks

Spring Integration committer and teacher Oleg Zhurakousky demoes performing transaction management, error handling, asynchronous processing, advanced aggregator configuration,  and much more using Spring Integration and the Enterprise Integration Patterns. This talk is a chance to stand over the shoulder of a master as he tackles some frequently asked questions about Spring Integration and demonstrates the solutions in code.    

This Week in Spring: March 6th, 2012

Engineering | Adam Fitzgerald | March 07, 2012 | ...

Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring. There is a lot to look at this week with much of the excitement around the just released Spring for Apache Hadoop project, which provides a very, very powerful Spring API integration for Apache Hadoop, an open source framework originally designed to support map-reduce style batch processing solutions.

</P> 
  1. Costin Leau kicked things off with the announcement of Spring for Apache Hadoop 1.0.0.M1 last week. I can't explain it any better than Costin does, so I won't bother. From his post:
    Whether one is writing stand-alone, vanilla MapReduce applications, interacting with data from multiple data stores across the enterprise, or coordinating a complex workflow of HDFS, Pig, or Hive jobs, or anything in between, Spring for Apache Hadoop stays true to the Spring philosophy offering a simplified programming model and addresses "accidental complexity" caused by the infrastructure.
    What are you waiting for? Go! Check it out! When you're done, you might check out the other coverage of the event, as well. As you might expect, a lot of people blogged about it, too.
    	 </LI> 
    <LI> What are you guys doing in two days, on March 8th, 2012? I'll be at the Native Android Development with Spring for Android webinar that introduces native Android development practices, resource management and the Spring for Android integration library, which makes the whole process more natural for developers that wish to interface with services on the server side. 
    	 There are, as usual, two editions, one <a href= "http://www.springsource.org/node/3482">for North America</A> and <a href = "http://www.springsource.org/node/3481">one for Europe</A>. Don't miss it! 
    	</LI…

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