Welcome back to another installment of This Week in Spring. Today, we bid farewell to the father of Spring, Rod Johnson. We wish Rod well on his next endeavors.

1. Spring contributor and all-around-build-ninja Chris Beams put together a nice blog talking about some of the infrastructure changes in the Spring projects of late, including their moves to GitHub and to the build-tool Gradle.
2. Martin Lippert has announced the availability of the SpringSource Tool Suites 3.0.0.M2, one for Spring and one for Groovy and Grails.
3. Spring Data Redis 1.0.1 has been released. Among other things the new release supports support for a new (4th) Redis driver SRP, Redis native execution (RedisConnection#execute), and improved pipeline execution tracking potential errors and bulk results consistently across all drivers

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4. Hubert Klein Ikkink has an interesting post on how set environment variables on Cloud Foundry.
5. Jan Machacek announced the latest release of Specs2 Spring 0.6.1 in his blog. Check it out for more details.
6. Matt Vickery is back with another installment on how to use Spring Integration with C24's iO products.
7. Our friend Willie Wheeler has a great post on pageable custom queries with Spring Data JPA.
8. Our friend Roger Hughes is back, this time with a post introducing how to get started with Spring Social.
9. Nicolas Frankel has a nice blog introducing Spring Data JPA.
10. The Java TV tutorial site and aggregator has both of Spring Integration contributor Oleg Zhurakousky's webinars on Spring Integration Tips 'n Tricks. It's nice when the aggregators pick up good content, but readers should also be sure to check out the source for all your SpringSource videos and tutorials, the SpringSource Dev YouTube channel.

11. A blog, seemingly on PHP, has a post on the correct way to utilize <a href = "http://activequestionsphp.16mb.com/correct-way-to-utilize-p-and-util-namespace-in-spring-xml-configuration/">Spring's <CODE>&lt;p&gt;</CODE> and <CODE> &lt;c&gt;</CODE> namespaces. </a>
    
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12. The doanduyhai blog has an interesting post on the Spring 3.1 cache abstraction.
13. The Learning via Code blog has a great post introducing Spring's support for message loading
14. The JavaCode Geeks blog has an interesting post on exception handling in Spring's JSF support
15. Only faintly related to Spring: Joram Barrez, a contributor to the Activiti BPMN2 workflow engine, to which both Spring Batch lead Dr. David Syer and I contributed the Spring support, has put up a nice post comparing the speed of the workflow engine and some of the tests use the Spring support.

Dear Spring Community,

I am pleased to announce the GA release of Spring GemFire 1.1.2 project is now available!

Downloads | JavaDocs | Reference Documentation | Changelog

To learn more about the project, visit the Spring GemFire Homepage.

1.1.2 is mainly a maintenance release providing several enhancements on the configuration front. See the changelog for more details.

The last ten years has been an exciting and challenging journey for me and I’m very proud of the technology and community that my SpringSource cofounders and I fostered. However, there always comes a time to make a choice about the places you’ll go, and it’s time for me to leave VMware and pursue other interests. I wish VMware and my colleagues continued success, and know that Spring will continue to thrive.

Technology

Spring was created to simplify enterprise Java development, and has succeeded in that goal. The Spring community continues to grow, Spring is more widely adopted than ever and Spring has…

The Groovy development team and SpringSource are happy to echo the announcement of the release of Groovy 2.0, the highly popular dynamic language for the Java platform. The key highlights of this important milestone are:

• a static type checker to let the compiler tell you about the correctness of your code,
• static compilation for the performance of the critical parts of your application,
• modularity, splitting the Groovy JAR into smaller feature-oriented JARs and letting you create your own extension modules,
• JDK 7 Project Coin syntax enhancements, so that Groovy is still as friendly as possible with its Java cousin,
• and JDK 7 Invoke Dynamic integration to benefit from the dynamic languages support of the JVM.

To learn more about all those great new features, please read the Groovy 2.0 article on InfoQ that I’ve written, detailing and explaining all those novelties.

To download Groovy 2.0, go to the download area of the Groovy website.

For further information on all the JIRA issues fixed in this release and the various betas and release candidates, you can have a look at the JIRA changelog.

We’d like to thank all our users, all the contributors and committers who made this important release a reality, thanks to their feedback, their…

The Spring Integration team is pleased to announce the release of:

Spring Integration 2.1.3.RELEASE - a small maintenance release with some important bug fixes

Release notes are available here

Artifacts are available in the SpringSource repo, the community download page and Maven Central

Spring Integration 2.2.0.M3 - The third milestone release of the 2.2 stream, including a number of important features and improvements

Release notes are available here

Artifacts are available in the SpringSource repo and the community download page

More information is available on the project's home page

Dear Spring Community,

I am pleased to announce the availability of the second milestone build of the upcoming SpringSource Tool Suites 3.0.

This M2 build includes a number of significant changes and reflects the new structure of the tooling going forward. The main goal was to move away from one big monolithic tool towards smaller independent components. Therefore the different components of the SpringSource Tool Suite have been separated from each other and are now usable on an individual basis.

All this allows us to start shipping different flavours of our tooling projects. Beginning with…

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1. Jonathan Brisbin has announced the availability of Spring Data REST 1.0.0.RC1 . Spring Data REST helps you provide a RESTful interface for your JPA-based repositories.
2. Oliver Gierke has announced Spring Data MongoDB 1.0.2.GA. The new release has plenty of bugfixes and improvements, so check the changelog for more.
3. Wonder what happened to the RabbitMQ webinar that was briefly on the SpringSource events calendar? It was rescheduled (slight schedule mishap), but it's back and you should definitely mark your calendars with the updated dates. It figures to be an amazing event.
4. Our pal Gordon Dickens - a world class trainer and engineer - has been very busy recently.

   	 If you haven't been following his blog recently, you missed an 
   	  <a href ="http://gordondickens.com/wordpress/2012/06/12/springsource_tool_suite_faq/"> introduction to the SpringSource Tool Suite  -  including its composition and value-added features,  and  answers some common questions</A>.
   		
   		 Besides the great post <a href= "http://gordondickens.com/wordpress/2012/06/12/spring-3-1-constructor-namespace">on Spring 3.1's constructor namespace…

Dear Spring Community,

I am pleased to announce the GA release of Spring Data Redis 1.0.1 project!

Downloads | JavaDocs | Reference Documentation | Changelog

Spring Data Redis 1.0.1 is more then a maintenance release introducing several new features such as:

• Support for a new (4th) Redis driver SRP
• Redis native execution (RedisConnection#execute)
• Improved pipeline execution tracking potential errors and bulk results consistently across all drivers

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

We look forward to your feedback on the forum or in the issue tracker.

Introduction

Over the last year a number of significant changes have been made to the infrastructure and processes we use to keep the Spring family of projects running smoothly. You may have seen individual announcements about some of these as they happened, while others may have slipped under your radar. I'll recap these changes below. When put together they portray a bigger picture.

GitHub project hosting

Individual Spring projects have been migrating to Git and GitHub for quite a while. You may recall our announcement last Christmas that the Spring Framework itself had made the move. With the recent migration of Spring Web Flow, we're happy to announce that all major Spring projects are now hosted under the SpringSource organization at GitHub.

There are benefits for project committers and Spring users alike following the move to Git and GitHub. GitHub has an excellent UI for code browsing, history of changes, and commit comments. And with the amazing number of open source projects already hosted at GitHub, this means that you're using one well-understood UI and that you already know how to browse source control, examine recent changes and so on. But GitHub's real power is in the way it encourages and supports community contribution. This point is discussed further in the "contribution process" section below.

For now, check out…