Spring Roo is SpringSource's new next-generation rapid application development tool for Java developers. With Roo you can easily build full Java applications. Join Ben Alex, the Roo project's founder and lead, to learn how this exciting new open source productivity tool can help you achieve:

This webinar will also include some of the exciting new features coming in Roo 1.1.0, which is presently under active development. Come and discover the future of Java enterprise application development productivity!

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Dear Spring Community,

I'm pleased to announce that the 1.0.3 maintenance release of Spring BlazeDS Integration, the open source solution for building Spring-powered RIAs with Adobe Flex, is now available.

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Along with a handfull of minor bug fixes targeting some of the new functionality added in 1.0.2, we have back-ported (from the in-progress 1.5M1) the few changes necessary for compatibility with the upcoming BlazeDS 4. This was done to provide the community with a stable release to use when exploring BlazeDS 4 without having to rely on nightly snapshots or milestone releases of Spring BlazeDS Integration 1.5.

As always, I encourage anyone interested to get involved by trying out the release and giving us feedback in the community forum and Jira. We continually get great feedback from people having success with Spring BlazeDS Integration in their projects, and we look forward to hearing more about your experiences.

Jeremy Grelle
Spring BlazeDS Integration Lead

The latest version of SpringSource Tool Suite (STS) is now available. STS is the best Eclipse-powered development environment for building Spring, Groovy and Grails powered enterprise applications. The new version (2.3.1) is now available for download and uses the latest Eclipse 3.5.2 base. Other features include

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Now is a great time to start working with STS and please use the community forum to give your feedback and ask questions.

Today SpringSource announced their plans to release a new version of the popular SpringSource tc Server™ product, this time with a special Spring Edition. The tc Server is designed to be the best place to run Spring applications and with its lightweight footprint is ideally suited for modern virtual environments. Bruce Snyder's blog post contains lots of details, but briefly the Spring Edition includes:

The new version of tc Server is expected to be available in April, but interested community members can try out the Developer Edition, ask questions on the tc Server forum, or attend the technical webinar that will go into detail about the product.

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We're pleased to announce that Spring Roo 1.0.2.RELEASE is now available.

Spring Roo is a next-generation rapid application development tool for Java developers. With Roo you can easily build full Java applications in minutes. Watch our five minute video to quickly discover how easy it is use Roo.

The 1.0.2.RELEASE contains over 40 fixes and minor enhancements since the 1.0.1 release. Existing Roo users can simply start using this new version without needing to make any changes to their project.

This is the last release planned for the 1.0.x series. Our attention is now shifting to Roo 1.1.0, with its highly requested database reverse engineering and JSPX modularity features. We plan to release Roo 1.1.0.M1 in March 2010.

To download this new version, or learn more about Roo, please visit:

We hope you that enjoy using this new release.

PS: Don't forget we have 20 kangaroos available for the first people who share Roo with the world via a user group or conference! You're sure to have as much fun with these little ones (photographed to the right) as you do with the software!

We're pleased to an announce the release of Spring Security 3.0.2.

This is a minor bugfix release. Please see the changelog for a list of issues which have been addressed.

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Arjen Poutsma has just announced that Spring 3.0.1 is now available and Juergen Hoeller has blogged about the changes in this minor release.

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Don't forget that Spring users can ask questions in the community forum and identify issues in JIRA as well. Please keep up the good work so that we can continue to make all the Spring projects better and better. European developers can learn more about Spring 3.0 at the one day S2G Forum in Munich on March 18th, or at the other S2G Forums in London and Amsterdam (dates to be announced soon).

Dear Spring Community,

I'm pleased to announce that the 1.0.2 maintenance release of Spring BlazeDS Integration, the open source solution for building Spring-powered RIAs with Adobe Flex, is now available.

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Along with a number of bug fixes and minor enhancements, we have added full support for using Spring Security 3 to secure a Flex application using the same integration mechanisms as we've previously provided only for Spring Security 2.0.x. In order to effectively demonstrate this support, we've added an additional profile to the Test Drive's Maven build that will configure the application to use Spring 3 and Spring Security 3. See the reference guide for details on how to trigger this alternate profile.

As always, I encourage anyone interested to get involved by trying out the release and giving us feedback in the community forum and Jira. We continually get great feedback from people having success with Spring BlazeDS Integration in their projects, and we look forward to hearing more about your experiences. We'll now be shifting focus entirely to version 1.5, which will add support for BlazeDS 4, and will bring with it a number of new features, including an addon for Spring Roo. This is a great time to make yourself heard if you'd like to help shape the future direction of the project.

Jeremy Grelle
Spring BlazeDS Integration Lead

We're pleased to an announce the release of Spring Batch 2.1.0. Thank you to all the people who have been tracking the milestones and providing feedback.

Check out the project website for a list of supported features, and also the release announcement in the community forum for more detailed information.

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