Dear Spring Community,

I'm happy to announce the release of Spring Social Twitter 1.0.4.RELEASE and Spring Social 1.0.3.RELEASE.

Spring Social is an extension of the Spring Framework that enables you to connect your Java applications to Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) providers such as Facebook and Twitter.

Spring Social Twitter 1.0.4.RELEASE is being made available in anticipation of the retirement of Twitter API v1.0. Although Spring Social Twitter has supported the v1.1 of the Twitter API since 1.0.3.RELEASE, it required user authorization for all operations. Twitter has since started supporting application authorization (e.g., OAuth 2 Client Credentials Grant) for resources that do not strictly need user authorization (such as search). Spring Social Twitter 1.0.4.RELEASE now offers a new constructor for TwitterTemplate that accepts an application access token for accessing resources that allow application authorization.

In addition, a few minor bugs in the Twitter API binding have been addressed.

In support of the changes in Spring Social Twitter 1.0.4.RELEASE, Spring Social 1.0.3.RELEASE offers a new authenticateClient() method in OAuth2Operations to enable an application to obtain an application access token. This application token can be used to construct a TwitterTemplate through the new constructor.

To get the software, download the release distribution:

• Spring Social Twitter 1.0.4.RELEASE
• Spring Social 1.0.3.RELEASE

We invite you to discuss these releases as well as the continuing work toward Spring Social 1.1.0 in the Spring Social Forum and to report any bugs or improvements in issue tracking (Core | Twitter).

We are pleased to announce that Spring Batch 2.2.0.RELEASE is now available via Maven Central, Github and the SpringSource download repository.

Spring Batch Home | Source on GitHub | Reference Documentation

Support for Spring Data

Spring Data is a collection of projects intended to make it easier to develop Spring-powered applications that use new data access technologies such as non-relational (NoSQL) databases. Based on a model of exposing Repository objects, Spring Data allows applications to access data in a simple and consistent way across many new platforms. Spring Batch 2.2.0.RELEASE provides ItemReader implementations for Neo4J and MongoDB as well as ItemWriter impelementaions for Neo4J, MongoDB and Gemfire. We also have created a RepositoryItemReader and RepositoryItemWriter…

Dear Spring Community,

I am happy to announce the second milestone release 3.3.0.M2 of the Spring Tool Suite (STS) and the Groovy/Grails Tool Suite (GGTS).

Highlights from this milestone build include:

• 4.x-based distributions now on Eclipse Kepler 4.3 (RC2)
• ready for Spring Framework 4
• new and unified "New Spring Project" wizard
• improved support for JavaConfig-driven Spring projects
• Groovy-Eclipse now has a smaller install footprint and uses less memory
• GGTS now includes Grails 2.2.2

Both tool suites ship on top of the latest Eclipse Juno SR2 release as well as on top of the latest Eclipse Kepler 4.3.0.RC2 release candidate. For optimal performance and stability we still recommend the distribution that is based on Eclipse 3.8.2.

The 3.3.0 release is scheduled for July 2013 - shortly after the Eclipse Kepler release.

To download the distributions, please go visit:

• Spring Tool Suite: http://www.springsource.org/sts
• Groovy/Grails Tool Suite: http://grails.org/products/ggts

Detailed new and noteworthy notes can be found here: STS/GGTS 3.3.0.M2 New & Noteworthy.

Enjoy!

We are pleased to announce that the second milestone for Spring Integration 3.0.0 is now available.

64 issues are resolved, including many improvements and new features; see the Project Home Page and Release Notes for more information.

We are pleased to announce that Spring Batch 2.2.0.RC2 is now available via the SpringSource Milestone repository.
Spring Batch Home | Source on GitHub | Reference Documentation

This release addresses bugs and improvements on the features released in the 2.2.0.RC1 release. You can read more about the specific updates in this release in the Spring Batch changelog here: 2.2.0-RC1 to 2.2.0.RC2

Links

Spring Batch Home | Source on GitHub | Reference Documentation

Dear Spring Community,

I am happy to announce the first milestone release 3.3.0.M1 of the Spring Tool Suite (STS) and the Groovy/Grails Tool Suite (GGTS).

Highlights from this milestone build include:

• Spring IDE: improved support for JavaConfig-driven Spring projects
• Groovy-Eclipse: now supports customizable editor templates
• Groovy-Eclipse: navigation and hovers in binary (compiled) groovy files
• Grails-IDE: preliminary support for current builds of Grails 2.3

Both tool suites ship on top of the latest Eclipse Juno SR2 release. For optimal performance and stability we still recommend the distribution that is based on Eclipse 3.8.2.

The second milestone 3.3.0.M2 build is scheduled for early June 2013, followed by the 3.3.0 release in early July 2013 - shortly after the Eclipse Kepler release.

To download the distributions, please go visit:

• Spring Tool Suite: http://www.springsource.org/sts
• Groovy/Grails Tool Suite: http://grails.org/products/ggts

Detailed new and noteworthy notes can be found here: STS/GGTS 3.3.0.M1 New & Noteworthy.

Enjoy!

We are pleased to announce that Spring Batch 2.2.0.RC1 is now available via the SpringSource Milestone repository. Spring Batch Home | Source on GitHub | Reference Documentation

Support for Spring Data

Spring Data is a collection of projects intended to make it easier to develop Spring-powered applications that use new data access technologies such as non-relational databases. Based on a model of exposing Repository objects, Spring Data allows applications to access data in a simple and consistent way across many new platforms. Spring Batch 2.2.0.RC1 now provides ItemReader and ItemWriter implementations for a number of the data stores supported by Spring Data including MongoDB, Neo4j, and Gemfire (write only). In addition, Spring Batch 2.2.0.RC1 now has a RepositoryItemReader and RepositoryItemWriter that will read and write items from custom Spring Data Repository implementations.

Java Configuration

With this release, Spring Batch 2.2.0.RC1 now supports Java based job definitions. Building a job definition with java configuration is now available via the new @EnableBatchProcessing annotation and a collection of builders that allow you to construct jobs, steps, flows, splits, etc. By using the @EnableBatchProcessing annotation the following features are enabled:

• Creation of StepScope - Allowing the configuration of beans via @Scope("step")
• @Autowired - A JobRepository, JobLauncher, JobRegistry, PlatformTransactionManager, JobBuilderFactory and StepBuilderFactory are all available to be autowired into your context.

Non-identifying Job Parameters

Spring Batch 2.2.0.RC1 now supports the use of job parameters that do not contribute to the generation of a JobInstance's identity. As part of this update, the JobParameters is no longer associated with a JobInstance and is now associated with a JobExecution. To support this change, the job repository schema has updated and a migration script has been provided. You can read the details about the migration script in the Getting Started Guide.

Other Improvements and Bug Fixes

With the release of Spring Batch 2.2.0.RC1, a host of other improvements and bug fixes have been added. The complete list of updates for this release can be found in the changelog for this revision.

Links

Spring Batch Home | Source on GitHub | Reference Documentation

Dear Spring Community,

We are happy to announce the release of Spring Mobile 1.1.0.M3!

Spring Mobile provides extensions to Spring MVC that aid in the development of cross-platform mobile web applications.

This release adds simpler configuration when using a custom domain strategy with SiteSwitcherHandlerInterceptor. Kindle Fire devices are now detected as tablet or mobile depending on which mode they are in. Additionally, several issues have been resolved in this release. This release is built and tested against Spring Framework 3.2.2. See the changelog and reference manual for more information. Many thanks to the community for their continued feedback and support in improving Spring Mobile.

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-mobile-samples

If you are building a mobile web app, we encourage you try out Spring Mobile 1.1.0.M3 and collaborate with us on the next iteration of the project.

We are pleased to announce that the first milestone release for Spring-AMQP is now available.

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