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.

I am happy to announce the first release of the Cloud Foundry Integration for Eclipse 1.0.

This release features:

• deploying, updating, starting, stopping apps directly from your workspace
• supports Java/Web, Java/Spring, Groovy/Grails and Scala/Lift apps
• service creating and binding (directly at deploy time or later)
• instance scaling and statistics
• remote file browsing directly integrated
• full debugging support for Micro Cloud Foundry
• improved incremental update performance
• integrated into Eclipse and STS

And, last but not least, the project is now open-source under the EPL and available from GitHub: https://github.com/SpringSource/eclipse-integration-cloudfoundry

You can install it into STS (2.9.0 or higher required) using the STS Dashboard or directly into a plain Eclipse JEE package (Indigo recommended) using the Eclipse Marketplace.

Attention: if you have a previous version of the Cloud Foundry tooling installed (the old milestone or nightly builds, having the old STS version…

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!

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.

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.    

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…

As datacenters virtualize more and more workloads, it becomes important to understand the potential impact on the Java servers that may be running your applications. At SpringOne 2GX 2011, Ben Corrie provided a thorough overview of Java memory management, how things work differently in virtual environments and what you can do about it to avoid problems. This includes a practical introduction to Elastic Memory for Java (EM4J) that is a feature of the VMware vFabric platform.

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