Join the technical experts behind VMforce, the first enterprise cloud for Java developers, for a new technical webinar focusing on the basics of Cloud Computing for Java Developers. The webinar covers

• Application Lifecycle – On premise & cloud-based development, testing and deployment
• Persistence – Force.com as a database
• Services in the Cloud – User Management, Security/Access Control, Search, Reporting and more

The webinar will be held on Thursday, September 9 for audiences in Europe and North America. This webinar builds on the information presented in the Spring for Force.com Developers webinar recorded last week. An archive for the presentation is now available (slides, code, video).

The SpringOne 2GX 2010 conference has over 100 deep technical sessions for both Spring and Groovy & Grails. With all the great conference sessions from the core contributors to Spring, Groovy, Grails, and Tomcat, you can see why this has become the most important Java event of 2010. If you want to build applications that are portable from the desktop to the data center and into the cloud then this conference is for you.

Sign up by September 3 and save $200. Register now!

Today at VMworld 2010, VMware announced the new vFabric cloud application platform. vFabric comprises the developer tools and frameworks that are so familiar to the Spring community combined with application platform services like elastic application runtime, cloud messaging, and data grid capabilities from existing SpringSource products. Rod Johnson explains the strategy and gives some technical details behind vFabric in his recent blog post. Community members interested in the learning more can register for the upcoming webinar on September 29th: Americas 10am PDT | Europe 2pm BST.

Thinking of taking a Class from SpringSource University? If you are, we still have seats available for our September classes. Look below to find a class near you:

North & South America:

• Brazil: Recife - Core Spring Framework
  
• Brazil: Rio de Janeiro - Core Spring Framework
  
• Canada: Ottawa - Enterprise Integration with Spring
  
• Canada: Montreal - Enterprise Integration with Spring
  
• Canada: Toronto - Enterprise Integration with Spring
  
• Boston, MA: Core Spring Framework
• Chicago, IL: Core Spring Framework Note: 2 students will win a ticket to SpringOne in Chicago at this class!
• Los Angeles, CA: Core Spring Framework
  
• New York, NY: Core Spring Framework and Core Spring.NET
  
• Philadelphia, PA: Hibernate with Spring and Enterprise Integration with Spring
  
• Portland, OR: Core Spring Framework
  
• San Francisco, CA: Core Spring Framework, Groovy & Grails and Rich Web Apps with Spring Note: Rod Johnson speaking and holding a Q&A at the Core Spring Class!

Asia Pacific:

• Australia: Sydney - Hibernate with Spring
  
• India: Bangalore - Core Spring Framework
  
• India: New Delhi - Core Spring Framework
  

No training near you? Check out our full schedule

Great news for everyone interested in advanced, scalable, enterprise and cloud messaging! The RabbitMQ team has just released a brand new version, RabbitMQ 2.0, of their popular messaging server. The release includes an all new scalable storage engine, native support for multi-protocol messaging, improvements to plugin distribution and much more.

Download | Documentation | Release Notes | Blog

Spring Community members can use the new Spring AMQP project for both Java and .NET connectivity to RabbitMQ. RabbitMQ and Spring AMQP will be among the incredible technical content featured at SpringOne 2GX 2010 in Chicago, October 19th-21st. Be sure to register now to lock in an early registration discount.

Become an expert in Spring now, learn from the creators of Spring and become officialy certified in Spring! Our professional training teaches you to become an expert in, Spring 3.0 - Spring AOP - Spring IOC - Spring JavaConfig - Spring JDBC - Spring MVC - Spring Security - SpringSource Tool Suite and more.

For all trainings in EMEA we have a special offer available if you register now:

• Register before September 04, 2010: Receive a 15% discount - use the referral code springup2 during the registration process*
• Volume Discount: Register with 2 people (10% discount on the total price). Register with 3 or more (20%). Discount will be applied automatically after registration*

Select your country to view the Spring Training near you: Online - Austria - Belarus - Belgium - Croatia - Czech Republic - Denmark - Finland - France - Germany - Hungary - Ireland - Israel - Italy - Kenya - Norway - Poland - Portugal - Romania - Russia - Slovakia - South Africa - Spain - Sweden - Switzerland - The Netherlands - Turkey - United Kingdom -

For questions about our professional trainings, please contact: springsourceuniversity@vmware.com

*maximum discount that can be applied = 25%

We're pleased to announce the availability of Spring Roo 1.1.0.M3. Spring Roo is a lightweight developer tool that makes it fast and easy to deliver instant results for Java developers. This new release includes more than 150 enhancements since Roo 1.1.0.M2, including:

• Incremental database reverse engineering (DBRE) support
• Latest Google Web Toolkit 2.1.0.M3 features
• Automatic JSON support, including in Spring MVC applications
• 16 social media embedding features
• Library upgrades
• Automatic Roo annotation JAR upgrades
• Usability enhancements

Please review our detailed blog entry to read more about this new release. You can also download Spring Roo, read the reference guide, or follow @SpringRoo on Twitter to learn more.

We hope you enjoy this new release.

Arjen Poutsma has just announced that Spring 3.0.4 is now available. This release addresses over 80 minor issues and updates Spring's support for some recent third-party releases including Hibernate Core 3.6, Hibernate Validator 4.1, EclipseLink 2.1, and EHCache 2.2.

Download | Documentation | Javadoc API | Change Log | JIRA

All the latest features for Spring as well as advanced technical sessions and roadmap discussion will be happening at SpringOne 2GX 2010 in Chicago, October 19th-21st. Be sure to register now to lock in an early registration discount.

Don't forget that Spring users can ask questions in the community forum and identify issues in JIRA as well.

Grails 1.3.4 has been released and contains numerous bugfixes and small improvements. Please see the changelog for a list of issues which have been addressed.

Download | Changelog | Documentation | Forum

Be sure to ask questions in the new Grails forum. Also, the Groovy and Grails sessions for SpringOne 2GX 2010 have been added to the conference schedule, so be sure to register now for early discounts.

SpringSource University has got some amazing news!

Rod Johnson will be at the September 7th Core Spring Class in San Francisco!

Yes, you read that right. He'll be talking about Spring, where it's going and let you in on some things you'll be really excited about.

After he's done, you'll get a chance to ask him your most burning question in a Q & A session.

The class is on September 7-10 in San Francisco and Rod will be dropping in on one of those days.

So do not miss this great opportunity! Click the link below to register:

Yes, I want to Meet Rod Johnson!

Or, you can send an email to springsourceuniversity@vmware.com and we'll get you signed up.

But don't wait, class size will be limited.

Oh...and this is just one of the exciting "celebrity" appearances planned at SpringSource University. To keep updated with the latest, you can now follow us on Twitter!

The SpringSource Hyperic product team is pleased to announce the general availability of Hyperic 4.4, the leading platform for custom web application monitoring and performance management in physical, virtual, and cloud environments. The Hyperic blog describes most of the new features included in the release, which include:

• Rapid Diagnosis of Virtualized Application Performance Problems: Hyperic 4.4 now provides visibility into all application infrastructure layers including virtualization, enabling operators to determine whether the root cause of issues lies within an application, its guest operating system, or its ESX host.
• Automatic Maintenance of Application Infrastructure Inventory: Hyperic 4.4 automatically discovers ESX hosts, virtual machines, and guest operating systems within minutes of their launch, and presents them in a unified topology so users can see which application components are running on which ESX hosts. It even tracks applications when they move to new virtual machines via vMotion.
• Virtualization-Aware Alerting: Hyperic 4.4 can distinguish between when a guest operating system has shut down unintentionally, and when it has been intentionally powered down or suspended. This prevents false alarms and enables system administrators to elastically scale their application infrastructure without triggering alert storms.

Check out the Hyperic 4.4 demo, download Hyperic Enterprise 4.4 or Hyperic Open Source 4.4, and dive into the new documentation on monitoring vSphere.

You still have a chance to register for some of our August Spring classes in your area.

Simply click on the class you're interested in and then click on the "register" link at the top, or you can send an email to springsourceuniversity@vmware.com.

North & South America:

• Canada: Ottawa - Core Spring Framework
  
• Canada: Montreal - Core Spring Framework
  
• New York: New York - Core Spring Framework
• New York: New York - Spring Web Services
  
• Virginia: McLean - Core Spring Framework
  

Europe, Middle East & Africa:

• Austria: Wien - Core Spring Framework
  
• Denmark: Copenhagen - Core Spring Framework
  
• France: Paris - Core Spring Framework
  
• Israel: Tel Aviv - Core Spring Framework
  
• Norway: Oslo - Core Spring Framework
  
• Russian Federation: Moscow - Core Spring Framework
  
• Sweden: Stockholm - Core Spring Framework
  
• United Kingdom: London - Advanced Spring Workshop
  
• United Kingdom: London - Enterprise Integration with Spring
  

No training near you? Check out our full schedule

In the next two weeks, SpringSource will host two very interesting webinars for the community.

• Performance Tuning Production Tomcat & tc Server - Tuning for Throughput (August 5th): This webinar will examine the Apache Tomcat configuration options that can impact overall throughput but in terms of requests per second and individual response times. Topics covered will include connector selection and configuration, caching, GC tuning and application architectures. When (and when not) to use Apache httpd to improve performance will also be discussed.
  Register: Europe 3:00pm BST/4:00pm CEST, North America 1:00pm EDT /10:00am PDT
• Spring Dependency Injection Styles (August 12th): This webinar will provide a hands-on tour of the new dependency injection features in Spring 3.0. Focusing on container configuration, the webinar will show by example the use of XML, Annotated POJOs, and Java @Configuration classes to wire up your application. Just as important to knowing how to configure the container, the presentation will also discuss why you would choose one method over another, how they can be mixed and matched, and how a global view of the application can be viewed inside SpringSource Tool Suite.
  Register: Europe 3:00pm BST/4:00pm CEST, North America 1:00pm EDT /10:00am PDT

Dear Spring Community,

We are pleased to announce the first milestone release of the Spring GemFire 1.0 project is now available for both Java and .NET! The Spring GemFire project aims to make it easier to build Spring-powered highly scalable applications using GemFire as distributed data management platform.

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

Download it now: Spring GemFire for Java | Spring GemFire for .NET

We look forward to your feedback!

If you're even remotely thinking about taking a Core Spring class in the Chicago area, now is the time.

Two lucky students will walk away with one ticket each to attend SpringOne 2GX. (individual ticket value at time of class $1650)

So what are you waiting for? Grab your seat today.

Core Spring Class - Chicago, Sept 14-17

Oh, and don't forget - class size is small, 15 students maximum so your odds are pretty good.

Register for Core Spring in Chicago today.

Juergen Hoeller recently gave a presentation about the Challenges of Long Term Software Quality in Open Source at the Université du SI conference. The presentation describes the core fundamental values behind Spring, some of the challenges associated with a large set of optional dependencies and the value of benevolent dictators.

Les challenges de la qualité logicielle à  long terme en open source

USI 2010 : conférence incontournable du l'IT en France
Rendez-vous annuel des Geeks et des Boss souhaitant une informatique qui transforme nos sociétés, USI est une conférence de 2 jours sur les sujets IT : Architecture de SI, Cloud Computing, iPhone, Agile, Lean management, Java, .net... USI 2010 a rassemblé 500 personnes autour d’un programme en 4 thèmes : Innovant, Durable, Ouvert et Valeur.
Plus d'informations sur www.universite-du-si.com

Juergen, along with many of the other core contributors to Spring, Groovy, Grails, and Tomcat, will also be presenting at the SpringOne 2GX 2010 conference in Chicago, October 19th-22nd. Be sure to register this event that has become the most important Java event of 2010.

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Technology Exchange Developer Day at VMworld 2010 is a conference focused exclusively on the needs of systems and application developers. The show, now in its 6th year, will take place at Moscone Center in San Francisco from Aug 30 through Sept 1. It will feature the best practices for application development and delivery on VMware products and deep dive into public and private cloud APIs from VMware. There will be close to 30 sessions with content designed specifically for developers, architects and product managers. SpringSource technologies will be featured in numerous sessions including the following topics:

• Spring into the Cloud: Understanding Spring as a Cloud Application Development Platform - Chris Richardson
  Abstract: This session will provide a brief technical overview of Spring, the most popular enterprise Java development framework, and then will focus on the best practices for Spring-based cloud application development. Using Spring’s dependency injection and configuration controls, Spring-based applications can become portable from the developer desktop to the enterprise datacenter and into the cloud. Join the experts from SpringSource to learn how to ensure today’s applications are ready for tomorrow’s runtime environment.
• Inside VMforce: an Architectural Overview of the Enterprise Java Cloud - Ramnivas Laddad
  Abstract: With the announcement of VMforce, VMware and Salesforce are building an enterprise Java Cloud that combines the Spring programming model with VMware flexibility and Force.com reliability and data integrity. This session will discuss the architecture of this new Platform-as-a-Service solution and provide a technical overview of how to run Spring applications that integrate with Force.com services. VMforce will be available for developer preview in Q4 2010, so VMware developers can attend this session for a special early preview of this exciting new cloud platform.

The complete session list and abstracts are available at Tech Exchange developer blog and will shortly be posted on the web site. Be sure to register for this great show. The conference fee for the 3-day event is $399 but if you also attend VMworld, the fee drops to $299. Follow the more news and updates at the Tech Exchange developer blog or Twitter feed.

Spring Web guru, Keith Donald, has just blogged about some of the outstanding features in the 3.0 version of Spring MVC. Keith has created a special showcase project for the Spring community to download. It includes extensive examples of the different options for web interaction possible with Spring MVC and the short screencast also demonstrates how to get started with the project.

Blog | Source Project | Screencast | Presentation

Keith and the other core contributors to Spring will be presenting at SpringOne 2GX 2010 in October, so be sure to register now for early discounts.

The first maintenance release in the 2.1 branch of Spring Web Flow is now available for download.
Download | Changelog

We are pleased to announce that the first milestone release of the Spring AMQP 1.0 project is now available for both Java and .NET!

Download it now: Spring AMQP for Java | Spring AMQP for .NET

Spring AMQP makes common Spring idioms available to developers who are building AMQP-based messaging solutions. For example, building a messaging application that uses RabbitMQ as a broker will feel quite similar to building an application based on Spring's JMS support. To learn more about the project, visit the Spring AMQP Homepage. There you will find links to the Reference Manual, Forum, Issue Tracker, and more.

We look forward to your feedback!