Spring Framework 3.2 goes GA

Engineering | Juergen Hoeller | December 13, 2012 | ...

Dear Spring community,

Exactly one year after the Spring Framework 3.1 release, I'm pleased to announce that Spring Framework 3.2 is generally available now!

We recommend an upgrade from all previous Spring releases, in particular from Spring Framework 3.1.x which this is a direct successor for.

As previously discussed, key features in Spring Framework 3.2 include:

  • Refined Java SE 7 support within the framework as well as through upgrades to CGLIB 3.0, ASM 4.0 (both of which we're inlining now) and AspectJ 1.7
  • Concurrency refinements across the framework, avoiding the use of synchronization wherever possible - in particular for scoped/prototype beans
  • Allowing for @Autowired and @Value to be used as meta-annotations, e.g. to build custom injection annotations in combination with specific qualifiers
  • Support for custom @Bean definition annotations in @Configuration classes, e.g. in combination with specific qualifiers, @Lazy, @Primary, etc
  • Asynchronous MVC processing on Servlet 3.0

Spring Security 3.2.0.M1 Released

Releases | Rob Winch | December 13, 2012 | ...

The first milestone release toward Spring Security 3.2 is now available from the SpringSource repository at http://repo.springsource.org. See here for a quick tutorial on resolving these artifacts via Maven.

The highlights of this release include:

  • Concurency Support
  • Servlet 3, Async Support
  • Spring MVC Async Integration
  • Servlet 3 API Integration
  • New Servlet API Sample Application
Stay tuned to the SpringSource Blog over the coming week for information on what's new in 3.2.0.M1.

Changelog | Download | Reference Manual | FAQ

Spring Social Yammer 1.0.0 Released

Releases | Craig Walls | December 12, 2012 | ...

Dear Spring Community,

I'm happy to share the news that Morten Andersen-Gott (aka, @mortenag on Twitter or magott on GitHub) has released Spring Social Yammer 1.0.0. Spring Social Yammer is one of over 25 community-led extension to Spring Social. It brings Spring Social-style connection and API binding support to applications needing to connect with Yammer.

Spring Social Yammer can be found at the following links:

Spring Social Yammer is also available in the Maven Central repository for inclusion as a dependency in your Maven or Gradle builds.

Morten announced the release via Twitter at http://twitter.com/mortenag/status/278794566755299328. Please join me in congratulating him on his…

This Week in Spring - 11 December, 2012

Engineering | Josh Long | December 11, 2012 | ...

Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! We finished SpringOne China over the weekend and are today at the first of two events for SpringOne India in Bangalore and SpringOne in Hyderabad. The shows have been really amazing! In particular, we've enjoyed the food, the sites and the amazing community that have turned up in droves!

An attendee took a shot of me as I was giving a talk on Spring on Cloud Foundry Dr. Mark Pollack, myself, Gary Russell and Chris Richardson at a restaurant in Beijing
I gave a talk in Bangalore and people deluged the stage with questions and greetings. I asked the last wave of people to take a photo with me. LtoR: Gary Russel, Josh Long, Jennifer Hickey, Jeremy Grelle, Oliver Gierke, Chris Richardson -- the whole SpringOne India lineup

 

    <LI> Roy Clarkson has announced <a href = "http://www.springsource.org/spring-android/news/1.0.1-released">Spring for Android 1.0</a>, which     adds support for Jackson 2.x in <code>RestTemplate</code> through the new <code>MappingJackson2HttpMessageConverter</code>. It also addresses several bugs and compatibility issues with <code>RestTemplate</code> and Android Jelly Bean.</LI>
    <LI>The <a href="http://www.tomcatexpert.com">TomcatExpert.com portal</a> has a nice post on Spring Insight Developer to analyze code, <a href="http://www.springsource.org/node/3761">install it with Tomcat, and…

    Introducing Spring Scala

    Engineering | Arjen Poutsma | December 10, 2012 | ...

    Last October, at SpringOne2GX, I introduced the Spring Scala project to the world. Since then, I've also presented this project at Devoxx. In this blog post, I would like to give further details about this project and how you can use it in your Scala projects.

    Why Spring Scala?

    The goal of the Spring Scala project is simply to make it easier to use the Spring framework in Scala. We believe that there are many Spring users out there who want to try Scala out, but do not want to leave their experience with Spring behind. This project is meant for those people.

    Obviously, you can use the (Java) Spring Framework in Scala today, without Spring Scala. But doing so will be awkward in certain places. Just like any programming language, Scala has its own, different way of doing things, and using a pure Java framework like Spring in Scala will just feel "too Java-esque". Spring Scala tries to fix…

    Spring for Android 1.0.1 Released

    Releases | Roy Clarkson | December 06, 2012 | ...

    Dear Spring Community,

    We are happy to announce the release of Spring for Android 1.0.1!

    Spring for Android is an extension of the Spring Framework that aims to simplify the development of native Android applications.

    This release adds support for Jackson 2.x in RestTemplate through the new MappingJackson2HttpMessageConverter. It also addresses several bugs and compatibility issues with RestTemplate and Android Jelly Bean. 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 at github.com/SpringSource/spring-android-samples

    If you are building an Android app, we encourage you try out Spring for Android 1.0.1 and collaborate with us on the next iteration of the project.

    IOC + Javascript at SpringOne 2GX

    Engineering | John Hann | December 06, 2012 | ...

    by Brian CavalierJohn Hann

    We gave a talk on IOC + Javascript at SpringOne 2GX. Front-end web application architecture seemed to be quite a hot topic at the conference, in general, and our talk seemed to be very well received. Here are the video and slides from the talk.

    We'll also be starting a blog series about architectural patterns for modern Javascript web apps, featuring posts from members of SpringSource's new front-end architecture team, S2JS. The posts will expand on the concepts presented in our talk, as well as those presented by Scott Andrews and Jeremy Grelle in their talks.

    The first post in the series is coming next week. Until then, we hope you enjoy the video and the slides.  If you'd like to get a head start, you can browse the demo app's source code

    This Week in Spring - December 4th, 2012

    Engineering | Josh Long | December 05, 2012 | ...

    Wow guys! December 4th already! Time sure flies when you're having fun!

    Welcome back to another installment of <EM>This Week in Spring</EM>. This week, I'm in Beijing for <a href="http://springonechina.cloudfoundry.com">SpringOne China</a> and, next week, I'm off to India for <A href="http://springoneindia.cloudfoundry.com/">SpringOne India</a>. If you're in Beijing, Bangalore or Hyderabad, I'd love to see you at these events!
    

    Alright, let's get on with this week's roundup!

    1. Mark Fisher gets the ball rolling this week with a very nice present: Spring Integration 2.2.0.GA has been released! The new release is well described in the blogs on the various new features referenced in the release announcement, so be sure to check it out!
      	</LI>
      <LI>Martin Lippert's announced that the <a href="http://www.springsource.org/node/3757">Spring Tool Suite and Groovy Tool Suite 3.2.0.M1 have been released!</a> </li>
      
       <LI> Tobias…

    Spring Tool Suite and Groovy/Grails Tool Suite 3.2.0.M1 released

    Releases | Martin Lippert | December 03, 2012 | ...

    Dear Spring Community,

    I am happy to announce the first milestone release 3.2.0.M1 of the Spring Tool Suite (STS) and the Groovy/Grails Tool Suite (GGTS).

    Highlights from this milestone build include:

    • overall performance improvements
    • updated to tc Server 2.8.1
    • improvements to Live Beans Graph feature
    • updated for Spring Integration 2.2
    • compilation times for AspectJ projects with AJDT have been improved (reduced!)

    Both tool suites ship on top of the latest Eclipse Juno SR1 from September 2012. As soon as the performance work on the Eclipse Juno SR2 release is ready to be consumed, we will update to that version. In the meantime, we recommend to use the STS and GGTS versions on top of Eclipse 3.8.1.

    The second milestone 3.2.0.M2 build is scheduled for late January 2013, followed by the 3.2.0 release in…

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