Dear Spring community,

I'm pleased to announce that our EPL-licensed Spring IDE and dm Server Tools have been updated.

Both releases are mainly addressing bug fixes and minor improvements. Additionally the dm Server Tools got some new features like Bundle and PAR export as well as tailing of application trace files.

You can install both from our new consolidated Eclipse update site available from http://www.springsource.org/update/e3.4 (please note that this update site does not work with a web browser).

Cheers, Christian Dupuis Lead, Spring IDE & SpringSource Tool Suite

Dear Spring Community,

I'm pleased to announce that the second public development milestone of Spring BlazeDS Integration, the newest of the open source Spring projects, is now available.

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The main features of note that have been added in this release are integration with Spring Security, and simplified XML-namespace-based configuration.  The namespace support results in significantly simpler Spring configuration files than using the full <bean> syntax, especially when using the new security features.

The community has thus far been providing us with some great feedback, and I encourage anyone interested to get involved by trying out the new functionalityand giving us feedback in the community forum and Jira as we progress towards a full-fledged 1.0.

We are looking forward to releasing RC1 in the very near future with the final major new features being centered around messaging integration, including support for both basic Spring JMS, and for more complex routing scenarios using Spring Integration channels.  

In case you missed it, Christophe Coenraets from Adobe recently provided a great introduction to Spring BlazeDS Integration on Adobe TV.  

Jeremy Grelle
Spring BlazeDS Integration Lead 

If you aren't following the SpringSource blog you may have missed it, but last week Juergen Hoeller announced the availability of the second milestone for Spring 3.0. Juergen's blog post covers all of the details about the milestone including the new RestTemplate, early JPA 2.0 support, more Java 5 style API updates and other improvements.

You can always get the latest milestones, release candidates and full releases for Spring from the download center.

Dear Spring Community,

We are delighted to announce the availability of Spring LDAP 1.3.0.RELEASE. This is a major release, containing more than 50 fixes compared to the 1.2.1 version; modifications varying in importance from internal modifications and minor fixes to important bug fixes and and significant functionality additions.

Most importantly we now provide a means to perform simple LDAP authentication directly in LdapTemplate. Other useful improvements include TLS connection support, referral handling improvements, as well as a couple of important fixes working around problems in the underlying Java JNDI API. As always, refer to the Change Log for a complete list of the changes included in this version.

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About the Spring LDAP Project
For more information on the Spring LDAP project, refer to the project home. Comments and support requests should be posted to the Spring LDAP support forum. Bugs and feature requests should be reported to the Jira issue tracker.

Enjoy!
Mattias Arthursson & Ulrik Sandberg,
Spring LDAP Project Team

Dear Spring Community,

I'm pleased to announce that the first public development milestone of Spring BlazeDS Integration, the newest member of the open source Spring portfolio, is now available.
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This is a foundational release that sets the stage for using Adobe Flex and BlazeDS in conjunction with the Spring programming model to build Rich Internet Applications.  We have a number of further integration ideas in mind already for the next milestone, and I would like to invite the community to get involved by trying out this early preview and giving us feedback in the community forum and Jira as we progress towards a full-fledged 1.0.  Check out Using Spring BlazeDS Integration 1.0.0.M1 to get started.

Jeremy Grelle
Spring BlazeDS Integration Lead      

Juergen Hoeller's latest blog announces the release of the first milestone for Spring 3.0. The main highlights are the addition of REST support, the Spring Expression Language (EL) and the move to Java 5 and above. The blog post contains the details.

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Dear Spring Community,

I'm pleased to announce that we have released Spring IDE 2.2.1. This version is mainly a bugfix and maintenance release but has some significant user level changes as well.

Get more information at the Spring IDE blog

Watch out for more tooling related announcements from SpringOne during the upcoming week.

Dear Spring Community,
We are pleased to announce that Spring Integration 1.0.0.RC2 is now available.
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For more information, please check out the announcement within the Spring Integration Forum, and be sure to visit the Spring Integration Home.

Mark Fisher
Spring Integration Lead

We are pleased to announce that Spring for .NET 1.2.0 is now available.

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This release contains the following new major features:

• WCF integration - Configure WCF services using dependency injection. Apply AOP advice to WCF services.
• MSMQ integration - MSMQ helper classes to increase your productivity developing messaging applications. Provides integration with Spring's transaction management features.
• Apache ActiveMQ integration - Helper classes to increase your productivity developing messaging applications with ActiveMQ/NMS
• Quartz integration - Configure Quartz jobs, schedulers, triggers using dependency injection. Convenience classes for implementing Quartz Jobs.
• AOP- New inheritance based AOP proxy generation
• NHibernate 2.0.1 support.

This release includes approximately 100 bug fixes and enhancements since the 1.1.2 release.

Please refer to the changelog for additional details.

Enjoy!