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.

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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.

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>   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…

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!

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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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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.

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Welcome back to another installment of This Week in Spring. Today, we bid farewell to the father of Spring, Rod Johnson. We wish Rod well on his next endeavors.

1. Spring contributor and all-around-build-ninja Chris Beams put together a nice blog talking about some of the infrastructure changes in the Spring projects of late, including their moves to GitHub and to the build-tool Gradle.
2. Martin Lippert has announced the availability of the SpringSource Tool Suites 3.0.0.M2, one for Spring and one for Groovy and Grails.
3. Spring Data Redis 1.0.1 has been released. Among other things the new release supports support for a new (4th) Redis driver SRP, Redis native execution (RedisConnection#execute), and improved pipeline execution tracking potential errors and bulk results consistently across all drivers

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4. Hubert Klein Ikkink has an interesting post on how set environment variables on Cloud Foundry.
5. Jan Machacek announced the latest release of Specs2 Spring 0.6.1 in his blog. Check it out for more details.
6. Matt Vickery is back with another installment on how to use Spring Integration with C24's iO products.
7. Our friend Willie Wheeler has a great post on pageable custom queries with Spring Data JPA.
8. Our friend Roger Hughes is back, this time with a post introducing how to get started with Spring Social.
9. Nicolas Frankel has a nice blog introducing Spring Data JPA.
10. The Java TV tutorial site and aggregator has both of Spring Integration contributor Oleg Zhurakousky's webinars on Spring Integration Tips 'n Tricks. It's nice when the aggregators pick up good content, but readers should also be sure to check out the source for all your SpringSource videos and tutorials, the SpringSource Dev YouTube channel.

11. A blog, seemingly on PHP, has a post on the correct way to utilize <a href = "http://activequestionsphp.16mb.com/correct-way-to-utilize-p-and-util-namespace-in-spring-xml-configuration/">Spring's <CODE>&lt;p&gt;</CODE> and <CODE> &lt;c&gt;</CODE> namespaces. </a>
    
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12. The doanduyhai blog has an interesting post on the Spring 3.1 cache abstraction.
13. The Learning via Code blog has a great post introducing Spring's support for message loading
14. The JavaCode Geeks blog has an interesting post on exception handling in Spring's JSF support
15. Only faintly related to Spring: Joram Barrez, a contributor to the Activiti BPMN2 workflow engine, to which both Spring Batch lead Dr. David Syer and I contributed the Spring support, has put up a nice post comparing the speed of the workflow engine and some of the tests use the Spring support.

Dear Spring Community,

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

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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.

The last ten years has been an exciting and challenging journey for me and I’m very proud of the technology and community that my SpringSource cofounders and I fostered. However, there always comes a time to make a choice about the places you’ll go, and it’s time for me to leave VMware and pursue other interests. I wish VMware and my colleagues continued success, and know that Spring will continue to thrive.

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Spring was created to simplify enterprise Java development, and has succeeded in that goal. The Spring community continues to grow, Spring is more widely adopted than ever and Spring has…