Dear Spring Community,

I am happy to announce the first milestone release 3.0.0.M1 of the SpringSource Tool Suite (STS).

Highlights from this milestone include:

• the distribution now ships on top of the Eclipse Juno M6 (4.2M6) packages.
• updated to tc Server 2.6.5
• some improvements around Spring-related content-assists and code templates
• Groovy 2.0 support
• Grails 2.0.3 support
• Java7 support for AspectJ/AJDT

Since the Eclipse Juno release in June will be based on the new Eclipse 4.2 platform (instead of the 3.x development stream), we decided to ship this milestone build of STS based on the latest Juno milestone builds instead of the latest Indigo SR2 release. We expect a lot of fixes in the Eclipse platform until the final Eclipse version ships in June, so some glitches that you might experience using this M1 build of STS will be fixed…

Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! I'm writing the back of the room during Adrian Colyer's amazing keynote at SpringOne On The Road - London event.

1. Did you guys miss Oleg Zhurakousky's webinar, Practical Tips and Tricks with Spring Integration? Have no fear, the video is available online.

   Also, be sure to check out part 2, this Wednesday, May 3rd for both Europe and North America!

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   	<LI> <a href = "http://blog.springsource.org/author/rclarkson/">Roy Clarkson</A> has announced the <a href = "http://www.springsource.org/spring-mobile/news/1.0.0.rc2-released">latest release of Spring Mobile</A>.  
   		 The release has several enhancements including more refined resolution, and improved site switching behavior. 
   		
   		</LI> 
   		<LI>  <a href = "http://blog.springsource.org/author/jbrisbin/">Jonathan Brisbin</A> just announced <a href="http://blog.springsource.org/author…

Dear Spring Community,

We are pleased to announce that the second release candidate of the Spring Mobile project is now available!

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

Here is an overview of the new features and functionality:

• Tablets are no longer recognized as mobile devices
• Added support for resolving tablet devices in LiteDeviceResolver.
• Added a new DeviceType enumeration consisting of NORMAL, MOBILE, and TABLET values.
• The Device interface now includes isNormal(), and isTablet() methods in addition to the existing isMobile() method.
• WebOS devices are now recognized as a mobile device in LiteDeviceResolver
• Improved the SiteSwitcherHandlerInterceptor by adding an URL path alternative to "dotMobi" and "mDot" for site switching. The switcher is now capable of switching between "normal" and "mobile" URL paths within the same domain. For example an about page for a normal site may be "http://www.domain.com/about", and the mobile site may be "http://www.domain.com/m/about"
• You can now configure a list of "normal" User-Agent keywords in the LiteDeviceResolver. It may happen that a device is falsely identified as mobile. This list of keywords takes precedence over the mobile and tablet keywords, effectively overriding the default behavior.

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-mobile-samples

We want to thank Scott Rossillo for his contributions to this release, and we look forward to working with him and the rest of the Spring community on future releases. If you are building a mobile web app, we encourage you try out 1.0.0.RC2 and collaborate with us on the next iteration of the project.

The idea for this video was triggered by Oleg Zhurakousky's desire to share some of the more interesting integration solutions that came out of the actual customer engagements as well as the questions that are most frequently asked on the Spring Integration forums. Oleg showcases the Spring Integration framework and how it can help you to build, manage and maintain powerful enterprise-grade integration solutions. In this edition of "Practical Tips-and-Tricks" Oleg covers some of the more advanced topics of enterprise integration such as message-flow-segmentation, custom retry logic, error handling, timeouts and more. This video is based on a refined version of Oleg's very successful talk delivered at SpringOne 2GX 2011.

To review basics of messaging and Spring Integration watch this Message Driven Architecture video by Mark Fisher.

Be sure to thumbs up the presentation if you find it useful and subscribe to the SpringSourceDev channel to see other recordings and screencasts.

Welcome back to another installment of This Week in Spring! As I compile this, I'm eagerly waiting for Costin Leau to begin his talk on NOSQL with Spring here in sunny, and beautiful Kiev, Ukraine, the first stop in the European leg of the Cloud Foundry Open Tour. The turnout for this event's been staggering! If you're reading this, then you've already missed out on the chance to attend the Kiev event, but be sure to register for the upcoming Moscow and London events.

1. In this SpringOne 2GX 2011 session, Mark Fisher and Thomas Risberg transform a monolithic enterprise application by changing its relational DB with a NoSQL one, introducing modularity, adding polyglot support and incorporating message queuing and event driven request processing using common enterprise integration patterns.
2. Did you guys notice that the final edition of the excellent Spring Roo in Action has just been published?

       This book is, as Ben Alex (Spring Roo project founder) put it, "an insightful and comprehensive treatment." I (personally) can't recommend it enough. Ken Rimple and Srini Penchikala, as long time readers of this roundup will know, are frequent Spring community bloggers and 
   

   routinely provide amazing content on all things Spring.
   

			 <LI>  
		Blogger Billy Sj&ouml;berg on DZone has a great post on how <a href = "http://www.dzone.com/links/r/bridging_between_jms_and_rabbitmq_amqp_using_spri.html">to bridge JMS and RabbitMQ</A>. 
		 This example uses <a href = "http://www.springsource…

The Spring Data team is pleased to announce the (initial) 1.0.0.M1 release of Spring Data REST.

This release contains a Servlet-based web application that can be used to export JPA Repositories over HTTP to create RESTful endpoints that user agents can access to manage your exposed JPA Entities. Browsers (via Javascript) or non-interactive agents like curl or wget can perform CRUD operations on entities, including managing relationships between entities through the use of Links.

Starter Web Application | Wiki | Release Notes

To learn more about the project, visit the Spring Data REST homepage, or visit the Github repository…

Welcome back to another installment of This Week in Spring. This week is the last chance to sign up for the SpringOne on the Road events in London, Kiev and Moscow so be sure to register. Let's dive into it!

1. Chris Richardson's webinar recording on NoSQL options for the Java developer is online in the SpringSourceDev YouTube Channel.
2. Shekhar Gulati's excellent introduction to Spring Roo continues over on IBM's developerWorks portal. The latest installment introduces writing advanced (and wrapper) Spring Roo addons.

<LI>  This article, which introduces how to use <a href = "http://java.dzone.com/articles/use-javafx2-spring">Spring to assemble  JavaFX 2 components</a> is short and to the point.  I'd probably use Spring's Java configuration option to fully exploit all the custom components, however. The nice thing about the approach outlined (over using FXML, directly, is that beans configured this way benefit from all the services that Spring provides, including dependency injection and AOP). Nice post, Andy!  </LI>

<LI>Blogger <EM>Rob Gordon</EM> has a nice post introducing <a href ="http://rgordon.co…

What a great week! The Cloud Foundry Open Tour's well under way, having just finished the Asian and US legs of the tour. Now, onward to Europe! (If you're in Europe, now's the time to secure your spot!)

Before we continue on to the bevy of the latest and greatest content, I wanted to remind you guys to check out Spring Integration ninja Oleg Zhurakousky's upcoming webinar, Practical Tips for Spring Integration. There is, as usual, one event for North America, and one for Europe

1. Gunnar Hillert's put together a blog introducing a feature that's received a lot of attention in SpringSource Tool Suite: easy-to-use templates for creating Spring Integration projects. Nice job, Gunnar! Also, check out Gunnar's accompanying video Create Spring Integration Projects with STS on the SpringSource YouTube channel.
2. Michael Isvy has put together a great blog explaining a few of the things you should be aware of when upgrading to Spring 3.1. Handy!

 <LI> Spring Integration 2.1.1 has been released! This is the first maintenance release of 2.1.x branch and contains the usual things like bug fixes and improvements related to AMQP, Gemfire, Mongo and Redis modules which were first introduced in Spring Integration 2.1.0. All together 56 issues were resolved with this release. 
	 For more, consult <a href = "http://www.springsource.org/node/3520">the release announcement</A>.</LI>
		
<LI>  Gabriel Axel talks about the <a href = "http://www.gabiaxel.com/2012/04/spring-social-google-first-milestone-is.html">first milestone of Spring Social…

Just days ago, SpringSource Tool Suite™ (STS) 2.9.1 was released. Besides many new features, it provides several features that are especially exciting for Spring Integration users. First of all, the latest STS release adds support for Spring Integration 2.1 and improves the visualization capabilities for Spring Integration flows. STS supports now all recently added Spring Integration adapters such as:

• Redis
• Gemfire
• AMQP
• Stored Procedure

Also, all existing Spring Integration adapters have been updated to support new visualization elements. Another wonderful addition to Spring Integration users is that SpringSource Tool Suite 2.9.x now ships with templating support for Spring Integration. Thus, when creating a new project using the Spring Template Project Wizard, you can now select between the following 3 new Spring Integration targeted templates:

• Spring Integration Project (Standalone) - Simple
• Spring Integration Project (Standalone) - File
• Spring Integration Project (War)

The Simple template creates a basic Spring Integration project, which runs as a standalone Java application, using only core Spring Integration components. In order to illustrate File polling capabilities, the File template uses additional components to poll file directories as well as to route those files. Lastly, the War template allows users to easily create basic Spring Integration projects that are targeted to run within servlet containers (e.g. Tomcat) as part of a WAR deployment. For illustration purposes the War template uses the Spring Integration Twitter adapter.

Creating a new Spring Integration Project

In order to start a new project using STS Spring Templates, go in the main menu to File, then NEW and then Spring Template Project. The Template Selection Screen will show up next.

 

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This screen provides a list of all available Spring Templates, including the 3 previously mentioned new templates for Spring Integration. If you see that little arrow in front of the template name - that means that the actual template has not been downloaded, yet. Once downloaded, the Templates will be cached on your machine and you won’t need to download the template files again, unless you press the Refresh…