Welcome to another installation of This Week in Spring! This week I'm in Bloomington-Normal, Illinois talking to StateFarm about Spring Projects: MVC, REST, Mobile, and Android. The developers here are code ninjas. Listening to their internal talks over the course of the day has been eye opening, to say the least. Don't miss the Spring, Groovy and Grails event of the year in Washington, DC: SpringOne2GX. If you haven't already registered, now's the time! Oh, and don't forget, if you're in the United States, today is national cheeseburger day! So... bon appetit!

<LI> Chris Beams has announced the availability of <a href ="http://www.springsource.org/node/3654">Spring Framework 3.2 M2</a>, which features many new features including improved <CODE>TestContext</CODE> support, Spring MVC improvements, asynchronous <CODE>@Controllers</CODE>, and lots of bug-fixes and improvements.  </LI>
<LI> This month's SpringSource webinar is coming fast - <a href ="http://www.springsource.org/node/3653"> Spring Security with Rob Winch</a>. Be sure to register now! </LI>
<li> Martin Lippert has announced the availability  of the <a href="http://www.springsource.org…

Welcome to another installation of This Week in Spring! I'm off to Oslo, Norway for the JavaZone conference to talk to people about using Spring Integration and Spring Batch on top of Cloud Foundry. Again, this is a natural use case: Cloud Foundry makes it easy to scale to handle the largest workloads, and Spring Integration and Spring Batch, presumably sitting on top of RabbitMQ, take care of the plumbing and do the heavy lifting of workload distribution across the cluster.

 <P>Wrapping up from last week's Cloud Foundry   Open Tour - India, touring <a href="http://opentour.cloudfoundry…

Welcome back to another installment of This Week in Spring, VMWorld edition! We're at the VMWorld event, talking to developers about Spring and Cloud Foundry. There's been a lot of exciting news coming out of this event, including some interesting updates around vFabric and updates regarding the timelines for Cloud Foundry itself: CloudFoundry.com, the hosted PaaS from VMware, will be GA by end-of-year, and next year will see the availability of a private on-premise Cloud Foundry. Both vFabric and Cloud Foundry are ideal environments for your Spring applications, and it's nice to see these platforms evolve.

1. Oliver Gierke has announced that the Spring Data Release Train has reached the station! This release is an umbrella release of several projects that provides uniformity across the various modules.

   	This release includes Spring Data Commons 1.4.0.RC1, Spring Data JPA 1.2.0.RC1, 
   	Spring Data MongoDB 1.1.0.RC1, Spring Data Neo4j 2.1.0.RC3 and Spring Data Gemfire 1.2.0.RC1.
   	
   	
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   <LI> Gunnar Hillert has a nice blog introducing how to <a href = "http://blog.springsource.org/2012/08/23/spring-integration-extensions/">bootstrap custom Spring Integration adapter development.</a>
   	 
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   <LI>  Gary Russel has announced that the latest iteration of  <a href  = "http://www.springsource.org/node/3639">Spring Integration, 2.2.0M4, is now available</a>.  Gary, a very busy man indeed…

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.

   	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.

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

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…

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. I did a brief review of Manning's new book, Spring Roo in Action. Check it, and the book, out!

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     <LI> The <a href = "http://bit.ly/QWSrml">Cloud Foundry Integration for Eclipse Now Supports Tunneling to Services</a>. This increases the parity betwen the Eclipse support (and the SpringSource Tool Suite support)  and the <CODE>vmc</CODE> command-line client.  </LI>
   	
   
   	<LI> The VMware has a very cool blog taking a look the roles Spring and RabbitMQ play in 
   		 <a href = "http://blogs.vmware.com/vfabric/2012/07/spring-and-rabbitmq-behind-indias-12-billion-person-biometric-database-1.html">in the new project behind India's 1.2 Billion Person Biometric Database</a>. <EM>Very</EM> cool…

Welcome to another installation of This Week in Spring!

This week I'm in Bangalore, India with other members of the SpringSource and Cloud Foundry teams talking to major system integrators about Spring and Cloud Foundry. The uptake's amazing, and the feedback is even better.

In related news, the Cloud Foundry Open Tour is coming to India next month! If you want to hear thought leaders and experts and learn about cloud computing, platform-as-a-service, architecture and Spring, then be sure to register now for either the Bangalore or Pune events. I look forward to seeing you there!

1. Jonathan Brisbin has announced the latest release of Spring Data Rest, version 1.0.0.RC2, which features JSONPE support, and better integration with Spring MVC applications, as well as even more configuration hooks so you can exert even more control over the behavior of the framework.
2. Dr. David Syer has announced the 1.0.0.RC1 release of Spring Security OAuth. Spring Security OAuth is a module that works with Spring Security and lets you expose OAuth-secured RESTful resources.

   The new release features lots of new extension points in the Authorization Server features, a Whitelabel UI for better out-of-box experience, and improved support for expressions in security filters. Check it out!

<LI> WADL is a description format for RESTful web-services,  in much the same way that  WSDL describes SOAP-based web services' contracts. This excellent…

Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This week, the SpringSource and Cloud Foundry teams are OSCON talking about open source enterprise and cloud computing with anybody and everybody. If you're in the region, be sure to check out the SpringSource and Cloud Foundry booth in the exhibition hall!

1. The Spring Data team is working on a book with O'Reilly on Spring Data. If you want to preview and feedback, now's your chance!
2. Are you using Spring Data Commons support for repositories? How would you feel about support for Java-centric configuration? Check out the new support for Java-configuration in Spring Data!

<LI> The Java Beginner's tutorial blog has a quick post on  <a href = "http://javabeginnerstutorial.com/spring-framework-tutorial/configure-hsqldb-java-spring/">how to use the embedded database namespace that debuted in Spring 3.0</A>. The <a href = "http://static.springsource.org/spring/docs/3.1.x/spring-framework-reference/htmlsingle/spring-framework-reference.html#jdbc-embedded-database-support">namespace</A> is great if you want to setup H2, HSQL and Derby instances quickly and then specify initialization <CODE>.SQL</CODE> statements or scripts to run to initialize the database to a…

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> Rob Winch has announced that <A href = "http://www.springsource.org/node/3588">Spring Security 3.1.1 has been released!  	</A>
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    <LI>  Costin Leau has announced that <A href = "http://www.springsource.org/node/3588">Spring GemFire 1.1.2 has been released!  	</A>
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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…

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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   		Gary Russell has announced the availability of <a href ="http://www.springsource.org/node/3586">Spring Integration 2.1.3.RELEASE and  2.2.0.M3</a>. 
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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.