Now that everyone has had a chance to see the keynote presentations from SpringOne 2GX 2011 and that Grails 2.0 has been released we can share more conference sessions from the 2GX side of the show. This video presentation is by Peter Ledbrook, Developer Advocate for Grails, and he discusses running Grails in the Cloud. He compares the different cloud providers out there and looks at some of the best solutions for hosting your Grails applications.

Many thanks to InfoQ for coming to Chicago to record so many of the fantastic SpringOne 2GX presentations.

It is my pleasure to announce that Spring Roo 1.2 GA has just been released. This release represents a significant amount of engineering effort by the Roo team and includes all the most popular features that the Roo user community have requested as well as many performance and usability improvements. The new features of Roo 1.2.0 are:

• Apache 2.0 licensed
• Multi-module Maven project support
• JSF / PrimeFaces scaffolding
• Services / repositories (using Spring Data JPA and Spring Data MongoDB)
• Database reverse engineering multi-schema support
• Flexible GWT support
• Shell usability improvements

In my next blog coming soon, I will detail the new commands available to use these exciting new features.

Alan Stewart Spring Roo Project Lead

In this new video interview from InfoQ, Spring expert, Oleg Zhurakousky talks about messaging, Spring Integration, and Cloud Architectures. This interview, filmed in October at JavaOne 2011, provides some background to how the Spring team has been thinking about emerging new models of application design for cloud platforms.

Oleg talks about :

• Developer choice and flexibility in cloud platforms and programming models
• Alternate approaches to retrieving data through messaging and noSQL options
• How messaging as an architectural paradigm is perfectly suited for large distributed systems

Many thanks to InfoQ for taking the time to talk to the Spring experts and providing this outstanding interview to the community.

VMware's vFabric SQLFire became GA today. It is a memory-optimized distributed SQL database delivering dynamic scalability and high performance for data-intensive modern applications. SQLFire provides developers with a simple SQL interface and Spring developers can connect their application easily using plain JDBC.

• The SQLFire blog by Jags Ramnaryan provides an excellent introduction to the problems that this product helps to solve.
• Jags also provides a great video Introduction to SQLFire on YouTube.
• There is a great step by step tutorial to get you started with SQLFire.
• Interested developers can always ask questions in the SQLFire community discussion forum.

So if you are looking for a high performance, dynamically scaling data solution that has simple SQL access, be sure to download SQLFire and give it a try.

Dear Spring Community,

We are pleased to announce the release of Spring Social 1.0.1!

Spring Social is an extension of the Spring Framework that enables you to connect your Java applications to Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) providers such as Facebook and Twitter.

In addition to the core Spring Social project, Spring Social Twitter 1.0.1 and Spring Social Facebook 1.0.1 are also now available. Within these releases are fixes for bugs found since 1.0.0 and a handful of minor enhancements. Refer to the changelogs (Core | Facebook | Twitter) for more details.

We're also excited to announce that Spring Social LinkedIn 1.0.0.M4 is now available and includes a more complete API binding. We are looking forward to your feedback as we bring Spring Social LinkedIn closer to a 1.0.0 GA release. (Thanks to Robert Drysdale for contributing much of the LinkedIn API binding code!)

To get the software, download the release distribution (Core | Facebook | Twitter) or simply add the maven artifacts to your project. To see it live, try out the quickstart and fire up the samples. Supplement as you go with information from the reference manual.

Spring Social requires Spring Framework 3.0.5 or > to run. We recommend Spring 3.1 for new applications to take advantage of the latest advances in the core framework. See the reference manual for a full description of dependencies.

Today saw the release of the Spring framework, version 3.1, the next step in enterprise Java development.

  	There is a <EM>lot</EM> of other stuff to talk about this week, but we'll
  	forego them for next week, because there's quite simply too much to look at with Spring 3.1.  

  	Take a look at the following content, and don't forget to download (<A href="http://www.springsource.com/download/community?project=Spring%20Framework&version=3.1.0.RELEASE">direct</a> or <a href="http://www.springsource.org/spring-core#download">maven</a>) and try out the latest and greatest bits today! 
 

And, of course, for all the gritty details of what's new, check out the Spring Framework 3.1 release notes.

Among my favorite new features in this release:

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Comprehensive Java-based application configuration</LI>
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Dear Spring Community,

We are pleased to announce the GA release of Spring GemFire 1.1 project is now available! The Spring GemFire project aims to make it easier to build Spring-powered highly scalable applications using GemFire as distributed data management platform.

Downloads | JavaDocs | Reference Documentation | Changelog

The 1.1 release updates include:

• Aligned Maven naming to Spring Data conventions (new ids are 'org.springframework.data'/'spring-data-gemfire')
• Introduced PDX attributes on cache and client-cache namespace
• Upgraded to Spring Framework 3.1 GA
• Dedicated support for indecies
• Improved region creation
• Dedicated support for Continuous Query (Message Driven POJOs for GemFire)
• Extensive client cache support
• Namespace support for region expiration
• Native support for the upcoming GemFire 6.6
• CacheServer support
• GemFire implementation for Spring 3.1 cache abstraction
• Support for queries with variable parameters

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

Download it now: Spring GemFire for Java | Spring GemFire for .NET

We look forward to your feedback!

P.S. Please use maven.springframework.org/release while Maven…

Dear Spring Community, I am pleased to announce the very first GA release of the Spring Data Redis 1.0 project is now available!

Downloads | JavaDocs | Reference Documentation | Changelog

The Spring Data Redis features include:

• Connection package as low-level abstraction across multiple drivers
• Configuration support for Redis Jedis, JRedis and RJC drivers/connectors
• Exception translation to Spring's portable Data Access exception hierarchy for Redis driver exception
• Generified RedisTemplate for exception translation and serialization support
• Jdk, JSON and Spring Object/XML mapping object and hash serializers
• Spring 3.1 cache abstraction implementation for Redis
• Pub-Sub support (such as a MessageListenerContainer for message-driven POJOs)
• Sorting and Pipelining functionality
• Dedicated support for SORT, SORT/GET pattern and returned bulk values
• Atomic counters and JDK Collection implementations on top of Redis

See Spring Data Redis in action through the live RetwisJ sample, a Twitter-clone (deployed in CloudFoundry) based entirely on Redis that showcases the various features of Spring Data Redis.

Additionally, learn about Redis and Spring Data Redis in a dedicated webinar by Salvatore Sanfilippo (Redis author) and Costin Leau (Spring Data Redis lead):

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