Welcome back 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 How to do in Java blog has a nice post on how to setup Siteminder pre-authentication using Spring Security 3.
2. Another great SpringOne2GX 2013 session's just been added to the SpringOne2GX 2013 lineup, Real Time Analytics with Spring. This talk introduces one use case for Project Reactor, a foundation for asynchronous applications on the JVM.
3. Andy Clement has just cut a new release of AspectJ, 1.8.0.M1, which will be used in Spring 4 and support Java 8. It is available through the SpringSource Maven repository as 1.8.0.M1. It is also in today's release of AJDT for Eclipse 4.3.
4. The GoPivotal blog has an in-depth look at Apache Tomcat 8. Definitely worth a look!
5. Eberhard Wolff has put together a very nice video on using the recently announced Spring Boot. Nice job, Eberhard! (as usual)
6. Our pal Petri Kainulainen has written a very cool post on unit testing Spring MVC REST APIs.
7. The Being Java Guys blog has a code-heavy post on how to do file uploads with Spring MVC. Nice job!
8. This post from the Matthew's Thoughts! blog explains a simple Spring REST starter project that demonstrates how to use regular Spring Security to add a username and password-based authentication with a Spring MVC-powered REST service.
   
9. The Code with Zen Mind blog has a nice series on building and testing Spring MVC applications. The first post introduces how to setup a test-driven project. The second post demonstrates how to do refactoring and how to introduce new test cases. The third post demonstrates how to use the tests established in the first two posts to survice a major refactoring (the implementation of the service under test changes). Really insightful!
10. This post from the public static void blog() blog introduces how Spring's logging layering works. The post is in what Google Translate insists is Slovak, however, the translation was pretty good and - if we're honest - the diagrams are quite explanatory by themselves! Good stuff. Take a look, and - if possible - a read.
    
11. The 1.5 version of the Cloud Foundry integration for Eclipse, which supports pushing applications to Pivotal Cloud Foundry organizations and spaces, using new Cloud Foundry services, and incrementally updating applications from Spring Tool Suite. The new integration may be installed from the STS dashboard or using the update site in the Help > Install New Software menu.

If you are a Java developer looking to increase your Spring knowledge, Spring Training by Pivotal is the place to start. We are providing several Spring trainings across the globe closely connected to your needs as a professional developer. This month we provide the new 4-day Groovy & Grails class in Boston, MA. SpringSource has also started offering new Hibernate with Spring Classes in the Bay Area, Germany, London (GB) and the United States (Online Courses)

The complete Spring training schedule for September, 2013 can be found below:

Step 1: Core Spring

Americas

• September 03 - 06: Core Spring in Dallas, TX
• September 10 - 13: Core Spring in Washington, DC
• September 10 - 13: Core Spring in Los Angeles, CA
• September 17 - 20: Core Spring Live Online in the United States
• September 17 - 20: Core Spring in Phoenix, AZ
• September 17 - 20: Core Spring in Sacramento, CA
• September 17 - 20: Core Spring in San Francisco, CA
• September 17 - 20: Core Spring in San Jose, CA
• September 17 - 20: Core Spring in Seattle, WA
• September 17 - 20: Core Spring in Phoenix, AZ
• September 24 - 27: Core Spring in San Diego, CA
• September 24 - 27: Core Spring in Stamford, CT
• September 24 - 27: Core Spring in Orlando, FL

Asia Pacific

• September 02 - 05: Core Spring in Bangalore, India
• September 09 - 12: Core Spring in Hong Kong, Hong Kong
• September 17 - 20: Core Spring in Singapore, Singapore
• September 25 - 28: Core Spring in New Delhi, India

Europe, Middle East & Africa

• September 03 - 06: Core Spring in Prague, Czech Republic
• September 03 - 06: Core Spring Amsterdam, Netherlands
• September 09 - 12: Core Spring in Paris, France
• September 09 - 12: Core Spring in München, Germany
• September 10 - 13: Core Spring in Wien, Austria
• September 10 - 13: Core Spring in Brussels, Belgium
• September 10 - 13: Core Spring in Moscow, Russia
• September 10 - 13: Core Spring in Stockholm, Sweden
• September 10 - 13: Core Spring in Zürich, Switzerland
• September 16 - 19: Core Spring in London, United Kingdom
• September 17 - 20: Core Spring in Zagreb, Croatia
• September 17 - 20: Core Spring Live Online in Europe
• September 23 - 26: Core Spring in München, Germany
• September 24 - 27: Core Spring in Oslo, Norway
• September 24 - 27: Core Spring in Madrid, Spain

Step 2: Spring Web / Enterprise Integration with Spring / Hibernate with Spring

Americas

• September 03 - 06: Enterprise Integration with Spring in Boston, MA
• September 14 - 22: Enterprise Integration with Spring Live Online in South America
• September 17 - 20: Enterprise Integration with Spring Live Online in the United States
• September 24 - 26: Hibernate with Spring Live Online in the United States
• September 24 - 26: Hibernate with Spring in Phoenix, AZ
• September 24 - 26: Hibernate with Spring in Sacramento, CA
• September 24 - 26: Hibernate with Spring in San Francisco, CA
• September 24 - 26: Hibernate with Spring in San Jose, CA

Asia Pacific

• September 02 - 05: Enterprise Integration with Spring in Sydney, Australia

Europe, Middle East & Africa

• September 03 - 06: Enterprise Integration with Spring Live Online in Europe
• September 10 - 13: Enterprise Integration with Spring in Amsterdam, Netherlands
• September 17 - 20: Enterprise Integration with Spring in Dublin, Ireland
• September 24 - 27: Enterprise Integration with Spring in Wien, Austria
• September 24 - 27: Enterprise Integration with Spring in München, Germany
• September 24 - 27: Enterprise Integration with Spring in Zürich, Switzerland
• September 04 - 06: Hibernate with Spring in Berlin, Germany
• September 23 - 25: Hibernate with Spring in London, United Kingdom
• September 30 - October 02: Hibernate with Spring in Wien, Austria
• September 30 - October 02: Hibernate with Spring in München, Germany
• September 30 - October 02: Hibernate with Spring in Zürich, Switzerland

If you cannot find a professional training near you, you can always request an onsite SpringSource training

Welcome back to another installment of This Week in Spring. On August 1, I celebrated my third year at SpringSource. I continue to enjoy the ride of my life and a huge part of that is my interaction with you, the most amazing community ever. Thanks for that, folks.

Have you booked your tickets for SpringOne2GX? This year's show is a special one. In my work as the Spring Developer Advocate, I speak at many conferences all around the world. Ask any developer with a pulse, and they'll confirm that big data (and Hadoop), reactive web applications, REST, mobile application development, and cloud computing are sizzling hot topics today. Pivotal, and Spring, support today's developers, and SpringOne2GX's agenda represents in my estimation the perfect blend of content for today's developers. Check out the agenda. We've just recently added talks on big data, and REST service security with OAuth. This will be our first show under Pivotal, and it's the only place where you can talk to the developers working on the technologies you care about both at SpringSource and in the community. As you know, we've just announced our Cloud Foundry conference, Platform, and SpringOne2GX full pass ticket holders may register for that show - which is at the same venue as SpringOne2GX just two days earlier - for free! If I had to pay for just one show a year, this would be that show. Hurry the early bird rate expires this friday!

1. Major news: Phil Webb and Dr. David Syer have just announced Spring Boot, which simplifies Spring application development. Spring Boot provides an opinionated layer on top of Spring and in so doing makes it dead simple to get an application up and running with a minimum of fuss. Seriously, this stuff will blow your mind. Do not read any further until you've read this short and sweet post! Give it a go and be sure to let us know about your experiences!
2. Spring Framework 3.2.4 maintenance release is now available, with an important security fix for SpringOXM..
3. Spring Data Redis-lead and ninja Jennifer Hickey just announced the availability of two Spring Data releases. Spring Data Redis 1.1, M2, featuring a lot of new features, including enhanced data pipelining, Redis 2.6 scripting, and more. Spring Data Redis 1.0.6 is also available, and features bug fixes and smaller improvements.
4. Spring Mobile and Android lead Roy Clarkson just announced Spring Mobile 1.1.0.RC1, which features improvements to device detection and view resolution in Spring Mobile. Roy also announced a new cut of the stable line of Spring Mobile, 1.0.2, which features similar improvements, some backported.
5. Spring Data ninja Oliver Gierke has just announced that the final release candidate for Spring Data Babbage is now available. This release is named for Charles Babbage. This release features support for the MongoDB Aggregation Framework and improved the execution of polymorphic queries, support to use SpEL expressions in manually defined queries with JPA, improved handling of entities using @IdClass, a countBy(..) method for Neo4j repositories, and much more.
6. The replay for the webinars Functional Programming without Lamba and Spring with Cucumber for Automation are now available online. Be sure to check them out!
7. A few weeks ago, our friend Johnathan Mark Smith put together a video introducing how to use Spring Data MongoDB and Java configuration. Check it out! And, if you're doing awesome videos, feel free to share. I'd love to post them on This Week in Spring, too!
8. I smiled when I saw a tweet by the Reactor project lead Jonathan Brisbin in which he says, "Processor throughput: 90M ops/sec on a laptop. 1 thread + @LMAX Disruptor. Not #fastdata, #uberfastdata" and then links to a test case in the code. Needless to say, Reactor is going to shake things up big time! (And, of course, we'll have more content on Reactor at SpringOne2GX.
9. The latest release of Tomcat, Apache Tomcat 8.0.0-RC1 (alpha), is now available! There are a lot of new features. Notably, Tomcat 8 will be the first Tomcat to support JSR 356, web sockets. This is the perfect compliment to Spring 4's recently announced web socket support.
10. Mohan Srihari Kantipudi has put together a nice post on Spring's basic REST capabilities
11. I liked Gregor Riegler's post on Spring Loaded, the best kept secret in open source. Spring Loaded is a Java agent that lets you reload code as you're working on it (no need to redeploy!). This is a very cool post and I hope you'll consider using Spring Loaded, too.

The fourth maintenance release in the Spring 3.2.x line is now available via Maven Central, the SpringSource repository, or for direct download from our community download page. This release includes numerous bugfixes and improvements including an important security fix for Spring OXM. We recommend that all all users upgrade.

Download | Documentation | Javadoc API | Change Log | JIRA

(This blog post was written jointly by Phil Webb and Dave Syer).

We are pleased to announce the first milestone release of a new project called Spring Boot.

Spring Boot aims to make it easy to create Spring-powered, production-grade applications and services with minimum fuss. It takes an opinionated view of the Spring platform so that new and existing users can quickly get to the bits they need. You can use it to create stand-alone Java applications that can be started using 'java -jar' or more traditional WAR deployments. We also provide a command line tool that runs 'spring scripts'.

The…

Dear Spring Community,

I am pleased to announce the second milestone release of Spring Data Redis 1.1!

Downloads | JavaDocs | Reference Documentation | Changelog

Highlights include:

• Significant enhancements to pipelining functionality
• Data type conversion and deserialization of Redis transaction results
• High level support for Redis 2.6 scripting through RedisTemplate
• Modified API for adding or removing multiple List, Set, and Hash elements in one call
• Support for using RedisTemplate without serialization

There is also a new GA release, Spring Data Redis 1.0.6!

Downloads | JavaDocs | Reference Documentation | Changelog

Spring Data Redis 1.0.6 is a maintenance release containing a few bug fixes and minor enhancements. See the Changelog for more information.

For more information about Spring Data Redis please see the home page for a live sample and webinar recording.

We look forward to your feedback on the forum or in the issue tracker. We hope to see you at the upcoming SpringOne conference in Santa Clara, CA. Checkout the schedule…

Dear Spring Community,

We are happy to announce the release of Spring Mobile 1.1.0.RC1! Spring Mobile provides extensions to Spring MVC that aid in the development of cross-platform mobile web applications. This release includes the following:

• Firefox OS now detected as mobile device
• Corrected an issue with redirects and forwards when using LiteDeviceDelegatingViewResolver
• Additional bug fixes and improvements

See the changelog and reference manual for more information.

To retrieve the software, download the release distribution, or add the maven artifacts to your project. Sample apps are available to help you get started. If you are building a mobile web app, we encourage you try Spring Mobile 1.1.0.RC1 and collaborate with us on the next iteration of the project.

Dear Spring Community,

We are happy to announce the release of Spring Mobile 1.0.2! Spring Mobile provides extensions to Spring MVC that aid in the development of cross-platform mobile web applications. This release includes the following:

• Firefox OS now detected as mobile device
• Kindle devices are now detected as tablets
• Kindle Fire devices are detected as tablet if they are in Silk Desktop mode or Android WebView, and as mobile when in Silk Mobile mode
• Additional bug fixes and improvements

See the changelog and reference manual for more information.

To retrieve the software, download the release distribution, or add the maven artifacts to your project. Sample apps are available to help you get started. If you are building a mobile web app, we encourage you try Spring Mobile 1.0.2 and collaborate with us on the next iteration of the project.

I am pleased to announce the first and final release candidate of the Babbage episode of the Spring Data release train. I consists of the following modules:

• Spring Data Commons 1.6 RC1 - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data JPA 1.4 RC1 - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data MongoDB 1.3 RC1 - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data Neo4j 2.3 RC1 - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - Changelog

The release forms a significant milestone towards the GA releases expected around SpringOne this year. We added support for the MongoDB Aggregation Framework and improved the execution of polymorphic queries. On the JPA side of things we introduced support to use SpEL expressions in manually defined queries, improved the handling of entities using @IdClass and now allow to define the Date binding for repository query parameters using @TemporalType. The Neo4j module added support for countBy(…) queries and type safe query execution for repositories. You can find a more detailed list of features at the wiki page summarizing the Babbage content.

This release is the perfect time to play with the new features and report back your experiences before we turn it to a GA release in a few weeks. We'd be happy to hear your opinions in the forums or in the bug tracker in case you run into any issues.

If you want to learn more about Spring Data or the Spring eco-system in general, the upcoming SpringOne conference in Santa Clara, CA is the perfect time and place to be. Checkout the schedule and register!