Dear Spring Community,

We are pleased to announce that the fourth and last release candidate (1.0.0.RC4) of the Spring Data JDBC Extensions 1.0 project with Oracle Database support is now available!

The new Spring Data JDBC Extensions project was created to provide additional support for vendor specific JDBC extensions as well as new approaches to working with JDBC like QueryDSL. The bulk of the support is made up of code ported from the SpringSource project "Advanced Pack for Oracle Database" that was available for support subscription customers. We are now making this code available to all…

Dear Spring community, I am pleased to announce the synced GA release of the following modules:

• Spring Data Commons 1.4 - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data JPA 1.2 - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data MongoDB 1.1 - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data Neo4j 2.1 - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data Gemfire 1.2 - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data REST Exporters 1.0 - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation

There's a more detailled blog post over at the the SpringSource team blog to cover the content of the overall release, the future roadmap etc. Looking forward to your feedback!

It's a pleasure to announce that we have just released the GA versions of a variety of Spring Data modules. With this release we continue to manifest the commitment of SpringSource to provide Java developers with tools to work with state-of-the-art persistence technologies. In this blog post I'd like to give you detailed insight into what the release includes, why we decided for a release train and a brief outlook into what the next steps on the Spring Data roadmap are.

The release train

Looking back at the way Spring Data modules were developed, release cycles were usually managed by the individual module leads. Given the different pace and maturity of the modules this caused some issues when trying to work with multiple modules at once. Especially the projects depending on Spring Data Commons were suffering from this problem.

We were working hard on minimizing these issues but eventually came to the conclusion that it makes sense to coordinate the…

The first version of the Scripted code editor has been released this week on github: https://github.com/scripted-editor/scripted.

Although Scripted is a general purpose code editor, the initial focus is building a great JavaScript editing experience. Scripted itself is built entirely in JavaScript and HTML/CSS. It is a browser-based editor that runs locally on a developer's machine with a Node.js instance being used to serve the editor code and perform the editor operations. The only pre-req for running Scripted is that you have a recent version of Node.js installed (we are testing with Node 0.8.11 right now). Scripted reuses the editor component from Eclipse Orion…

Welcome back to another installation of This week in Spring!. There's been a flurry of activity this week at SpringSource as we begin the final leg of the march to SpringOne! We're just a week away, and the show is shaping up every day to be the best show ever! We hope to see you there! Don't miss the day 1 and 2 keynotes from Adrian Colyer, Jurgen Hoeller, Mark Pollack, Graeme Rocher, as well as exciting sessions we've highlighted on SpringSource.org in the last 4 weeks: Going Async - Push Notifications, Client-Side UI Smackdown, Decomposing Applications for Deployability and Scalability, How to build Big Data Pipelines for Hadoop using OSS.

1. Alvin J Rayes put together a nice post on using Spring MVC 3 with Apache Tiles, the templating engine.
2. Tool Suites lead Martin Lippert has announced that Spring Tool Suite and Groovy/Grails Tool Suite 3.1.0 have been released! Nice job, Martin!
3. Spring Security lead Rob Winch has announced that Spring Security 2.0.8, 3.0.8, and 3.1.3 have been released! This brings the total number of outstanding bugs down to 0. Excellent work, Rob!
4. Have you been following the exciting new blogs from the Spring Integration team on the upcoming Spring Integration 2.2 release's new features?

   	 <A href = "http://blog.springsource.org/2012/10/09/spring-integration-2-2-retry-and-more/">Gary Russell has put together a nice blog on the new support for retry in Spring Integration</A>.  The support for retry capabilities originally comes from Spring Batch's support for retrying  
   	 operations, and was then factored out to the <a href="http://www.github.com/springsource/spring-retry">Spring Retry</A> project. Now, you can take advantage of it in Spring Integration flows!
   

5. Gunnar Hillert has a nice post on how to use the new adapters in Spring Integration 2.2 to work with JPA.
6. Learning OAuth? Want to know about the scenarios in which OAuth can help better secure your RESTful APIs? Join Spring ninja Dr. David Syer for his article introducing OAuth, in terms of how Cloud Foundry uses it for the UAA service.

	<LI> Krishna Prasad has put together some very cool posts recently.  I liked his post on connecting systems using…

We're please to announce the relase of Spring Security 2.0.8, 3.0.8, and 3.1.3 which fixes CVE-2012-5055 and brings Spring Security's open bugs to 0. The releases are available from the Spring Community Downloads area and jars are available from Maven central repository. See the project website for more information.

A special thanks to Nicholas Goodwin (@NGoody) for disclosing the issue and keeping it private until a fix could be pushed out.

3.1.3: Changelog | Download | 3.1.3 Reference Manual | FAQ

3.0.8: Changelog | Download | Reference Manual

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Introduction

This is the fourth part in a series of blog posts highlighting some of the new features available in Spring Integration 2.2 following the recent release of Release Candidate 1. The first part talks about the MongoDB adapters, the second part talks about transaction synchronization; the third part talks about JPA support.

Spring Integration 2.2 introduces the ability to apply one or more localized AOP Advice elements to a message handler. A number of standard Advice classes has also been provided as well as a sample application that explores the features they provide.

Background

For a general introduction to Aspect Oriented Programming (AOP), see the Spring Documentation

With Spring Integration, to-date, it has been possible to apply an <advice-chain/> to a poller. Assuming Direct channels are being used, an AOP Advice in such a chain applies to the entire flow, encompassing all downstream components. There are times, however, when it would be advantageous to advise just an individual endpoint to, say, retry an…

Dear Spring Community,

we are happy to announce the next major release of our Eclipse-based tooling today: The Spring Tool Suite (STS) 3.1.0 and the Groovy/Grails Tool Suite (GGTS) 3.1.0.

Highlights from this release include:

• Eclipse Juno SR1 updates (including Mylyn, EGit, m2e, m2e-wtp)
• Mac distributions now OSX 10.8 Mountain Lion Gatekeeper compatible
• updated to tc Server 2.7.2
• new Spring Data Gemfire project templates
• the new Live Beans Graph feature (experimental)
• grails import wizard
• support for mavenized grails projects
• updated to Groovy 2.0.4 and Grails 2.1.1

Some of our users reported general performance issues with the new Eclipse Juno 4.2 platform that STS 3.0.0 shipped with. Most of these issues seem to be related to the underlying UI platform and its usage from various plugins and extensions. Since our goal is to provide the best possible user experience, we decided to provide two separate distributions for STS 3.1.…

This is the third part in a series of blog posts highlighting some of the new features available in Spring Integration 2.2 following the recent release of Release Candidate 1. The first part described the new set of MongoDB adapters. In part two we highlighted the new extended support for synchronizing non-transactional resources with transactions.

In this third part today, we would like to introduce the new Java Persistence API (JPA) support that is provided starting with Spring Integration 2.2. The JPA module is persistence-provider-agnostic and has been tested using:

• Hibernate
• OpenJPA
• EclipseLink

As part of the new JPA module, we provide several components for retrieving and persisting JPA entity objects:

• JPA Inbound Channel Adapter
• JPA Outbound Channel Adapter
• JPA Updating Outbound Gateway
• JPA Retrieving Outbound Gateway

Using these components, you can select, create, update and delete entities in your database. Besides persisting data using the entity classes directly, you can also execute queries using the Java Persistence Query Language (JPQL) as well as using native SQL queries. Additionally, named queries are supported as well.

The JPA Sample

In our Spring Integration Samples repository, we provide a sample application demonstrating the JPA support, which we want to use in this blog post to show you how to easily get started.

The provided sample is using an embedded H2 database which contains a single table called PEOPLE. This table is mapped to the Person entity class in package org.springframework.integration.samples.jpa…