Dear Spring Community,

The Spring Data Team and Neo Technology have just released the Release Candidate 1 of Spring Data Neo4j, the integration library for Neo4j the Enterprise NOSQL database.

Integrating the feedback from the very successful SpringOne 2011 and our community we exended the previous Milestone release with new functionality and took care of reported issues.

If you'd like to get an Introduction to Spring Data Neo4j, watch out for our presentations/webinars.

Changes

• Updated Neo4j to 1.5 AspectJ to 1.6.12
• Added repository support for the new Cypher-DSL (1.5.M1) (with QueryDSL support)
• Updated cypher syntax changes for 1.5
• Extended result-handling-dsl to allow changes of container classes
• Added examples for hello-worlds and cypher for both mapping options
• @RelationshipEntity has an fallback relationship-type attribute
• Support for (mutable) @RelatedToVia collections (like Set)
• Relationship-Entities can now be directly instantiated and persisted
• Introduced the concept of a MappingPolicy for the POJO mapping mode (currently @Fetch)
• Simplified cineasts using annotated and derived queries on repositories
• Added repository for access of relationship-related methods
• Improved support for collection properties
• List, Set, Collection, Page as return types on derived and annotated query methods

This is the last step before the final release of the new major version, so we're looking for even more feedback to provide an excellent GA release of Spring Data Neo4j. Please provide it in the forum or the issue tracker.

Project resources: Downloads | Reference Card | JavaDocs | Spring Data Graph Guide Book | Changelog | GitHub Repository

Dear Spring Community,

I am happy to announce the new milestone release M5 of the Cloud Foundry Integration for the SpringSource Tool Suite (STS).

This milestone release includes support for debugging applications in Cloud Foundry (for local clouds and the upcoming version of Micro Cloud Foundry). You can now start your apps in your local or micro cloud in debug mode and your Eclipse/STS debugger will automatically be connected to your app running inside of Cloud Foundry. You can set breakpoints, inspect variables, evaluate expressions, step through the app - everything you know from he good…

Dear Spring Community,

I am pleased to announce that the Spring Data MongoDB 1.0 Milestone 5 release is now available!

The primary goal of the Spring Data project is to make it easier to build Spring-powered applications that use new data access technologies such as non-relational databases, map-reduce frameworks, and cloud based data services.

The MongoDB module provides integration with the MongoDB document database.

Downloads | JavaDocs | Reference Documentation | Changelog

To learn more about the project, visit the Spring Data MongoDB Page.

There are a number of bug fixes and minor changes to the way certain features work. See the changelog…

Dear Spring Community,

We are pleased to announce that the first milestone release (2.0.0.M1) of the new Spring Data Neo4j major version 2.0 is now available!

In the last few weeks the engineers have been busy transforming the existing library under a new name to make it fit for its presentation
at Spring One 2GX next week.

A major internal refactoring split the framework into several submodules, each addressing a different concern.

• spring-data-neo4j: Neo4jTemplate for easy, copying object-graph-mapping, and Spring Data Repositories using persistence entity meta information
• spring-data-neo4j-aspects: transparent object-graph-mapping using AspectJ
• spring-data-neo4j-cross-store: AspectJ based cross-store-persistence between JPA and Neo4j
• spring-data-neo4j-rest: transparent access of a remote Neo4j REST-Server

As part of the refactoring, the source repository was also renamed and re-organized. The previously separated examples and the tutorial project are now included directly in the same github project…

Dear Spring Community,

I am pleased to announce the first release candidate of the Spring Data Redis 1.0 project is now available!

Downloads | JavaDocs | Reference Documentation | Changelog

This release features several fixes and improvements such as:

• Upgrade to Spring 3.1 RC1
• Improved JDK 5 compatibility
• Improved Spring 3.1 cache abstraction on top of Redis

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

Dear Spring Community, We are pleased to announce that the release candidate (1.0.0.RC1) of the Spring Data JDBC Extensions 1.0 project with Oracle Database support is now available!

The new Spring Data JDBC Extensions project was created to provide additional support for vendor specific JDBC extensions as well as new approaches to working with JDBC like QueryDSL. The bulk of the support is made up of code ported from the SpringSource project "Advanced Pack for Oracle Database" that was available for support subscription customers. We are now making this code available to all Spring users and any new developments will be made in the Spring Data JDBC Extensions project.

Downloads | JavaDocs | Reference Documentation | Changelog

To learn more about the project, visit the Spring Data JDBC Extensions Homepage.

The improvements in Spring Data JDBC Extensions 1.0.0.RC1 include:

• Added documentation chapter for QueryDSL SQL module
• Added OSGi manifests
• Fixed slf4j/log4j and other dependencies

I'd like to thank Andrei Stefan for the JPetStore re-write using the QueryDSL support and SQLFire. It provides a good example for using the QueryDslJdbcTemplate in a project - see https://github.com/SpringSource/spring-sqlfire-samples.

Looking forward to your feedback on the forum or in the issue tracker.

Dear Spring Community,

We're pleased to announce the new release 2.8.0 of the SpringSource Tool Suite (STS). Some highlights from this release:

• ships on top of Eclipse Indigo SR1
• includes full IDE support for Java 7 (coming with the Eclipse 3.7.1 update)
• support for Spring 3.1 bean profiles, including validation and navigation
• support for Spring 3.1 c-namespace including quick-fixes, validation and content-assist
• improved constructor-arg validation and quick-fixes
• updated Eclipse Maven integration (m2e 1.0.100), including migration assistance
• support for Groovy 1.8.2
• support for Grails 2.0.0.M2

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.

If you wanna upgrade an existing STS installation, please also take a look at this blog post on how to upgrade the m2e support properly.

Are you heading to JavaOne 2011? If you are, we invite all Spring, Groovy and Grails community members to stop by the SpringSource booth (number 5402) to chat with the Spring engineers and see the latest innovations in Spring, Grails and Cloud Foundry. The exhibit space is open Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, roughly 10am-5pm, so there should be plenty of time to get your questions answered.

SpringSource technologists are also presenting a lot of sessions as well so be sure to add the following talks to your session builder and reserve a seat:

• Java Workloads in the Cloud (24701) - Scott Andrews and Ramnivas Laddad
• Simplify Your JMS Code With Spring (22585) - Bruce Snyder
• Caching and Data Grids Patterns and Tips (22500) - Costin Leau
• Building Cloud-Ready Systems with Modern Open Technologies (17381) - Oleg Zhurakousky
• Fewer Hoops with Hadoop and Spring (22501) - Costin Leau
• Java Enterprise Applications in the Cloud: Fast, Fun and Easier than Ever (22120) - Stefan Schmidt & Gordon Dickens
• What's New in Groovy 1.8 (23940) - Guillaume Laforge
• What's New in Grails 1.4 (24262) - Graeme Rocher
• Polyglot Persistence in the Cloud with Grails and Java EE (24280) - Graeme Rocher

Of course, if you are dedicated member of the Spring community, then SpringOne 2GX 2011 in Chicago is really the event for you. We are just one month away so be sure to register now…