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.

Dear Spring Community,

I am pleased to announce that the first milestone of the Spring GemFire 1.2 project for Java is now available!

Downloads | JavaDocs | Reference Documentation | Changelog

This new milestone introduces:

• POJO mapping
• Repository support

For more information see the reference documentation.

Looking forward to your feedback!

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 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.

In the recent Messaging for Modern Applications webinar, Tom McCuch explained how the landscape of enterprise messaging has changed and discusses what new styles of solutions are emerging. Tom covers emerging messaging application architectures, AMQP & RabbitMQ as messaging solutions and the rise of Spring Integration for messaging use cases and as a DSL for Spring-based applications.

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

For developers who are interested in tutorials and eLearning we have launched three instructional videos on Youtube. These tutorials focus on Gemfire, Hyperic and tc Server.

Programming with Gemfire: An Introduction to Gemfire 6.5 teaches:

• Gemfire: An Overview
• Gemfire Topologies
• Gemfire Architecture
• Gemfire Installation
• Cache Management

Click here to watch the Gemfire Tutorial

Hyperic Basics contains the following topics:

• Features of Hyperic
• Hyperic Architecture

Click here to watch the Hyperic Tutorial

vFabric tc Server Installation and Instances provides information on:

• vFabric tc Server an Introduction
• vFabric tc Server Architecture

Click here to watch the vFabric tc Server Tutorial

Of course the sessions at SpringOne 2GX 2011 covered Spring, Groovy and Grails in amazing detail, but cloud workloads were hot topics of discussion last year as well. In this presentation, pioneering technologist Derek Collison gives a detailed breakdown of Cloud Foundry - Inside the Machine. Derek gives a deep analysis of Cloud Foundry’s architecture with specific details on the Cloud Controller, the Service Provisioning Agent, the Droplet Execution Agent, and the Messaging System. If you want to learn about the technology behind the world's first open platform-as-a-service then this…

Another session from SpringOne 2GX 2011 gives a detailed guide to Identity Management with Spring Security. Spring developer and also Cloud Foundry engineer, Dave Syer, covers Single Sign On, security standards (including SAML, OpenID, OAuth, SCIM, JWT), how Spring Security can fit in, as well as demoing identity management as a service. Dave has tackled some of the most complex problems possible in enterprise Java and this presentation provides a great guide for developers interested in security identity in distributed environments.

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

In this popular session from SpringOne 2GX 2011, Spring developer advocate, Josh Long and Spring engineer, Roy Clarkson discuss native Android development practices with the Spring framework. The session covers Spring MVC support for device detection, REST implementation for handling device requests and Spring Android support for organizing calls from the mobile client to the server.

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