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Spring Web Flow 2.4 RC1 Released

April 5, 2014 by Krishna Srinivasan Leave a Comment

Last week Spring IO team has announced the first release candidate for Spring Web Flow 2.4. The release includes Java based configuration for Spring Web Flow and Spring Faces. Prior to this release, Spring Web Flow doesn’t support the Java based configurations. Here is the list of features included in this version. If you want to know the basic information on Spring Web Flow, please read our article Introduction to Spring Web Flow.

Java-based Configuration
Spring MVC Flash Scope Integration
Partial JSR-303 Bean Validation
Hibernate 4 Support
Tiles 3 Support
Minimum JSF 2.0 Requirement
Portlet API 2.0 and JSF 2.0 support

If you want to try this release, use the maven entries in your project pom.xml file.

[code lang=”xml”]
<dependencies>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.webflow</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-webflow</artifactId>
<version>2.4.0.RC1</version>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
<repositories>
<repository>
<id>spring-milestones</id>
<name>Spring Milestones</name>
<url>http://repo.spring.io/milestone</url>
<snapshots>
<enabled>false</enabled>
</snapshots>
</repository>
</repositories>
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Spring Security 3.2.3 Released

March 28, 2014 by Krishna Srinivasan Leave a Comment

This week Spring IO team has announced the release of Spring Security 3.2.3 with vet few bug fixes. The maven repository location is:

[code lang=”xml”]
<dependencies>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.security</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-security-web</artifactId>
<version>3.2.3.RELEASE</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.security</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-security-config</artifactId>
<version>3.2.3.RELEASE</version>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
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The following are the fixes in this release:

A fix to Java Configuration to work with Spring Boot.
A fix to Java Configuration that when CSRF protection is disabled allows remembering the last page prior to authenticating when it is a POST to work with JSF.

Also Read:

Spring Security 3.0

Spring Interview Questions

Spring Boot 1.0.0.RC5 Released!!

March 22, 2014 by Krishna Srinivasan Leave a Comment

This week Spring IO team has announced that they have released the final released candidate for the Spring Boot 1.0.0 road map. So, the next version will be the final release of the project. Spring Boot project is intended to use the auto configuration of your spring applications instead of developers manually configure the environmental requirements. With this release, there are few new features added to the 1.0.0 release. (Read : Introduction to Spring Boot)

Spring Boot 1.0.0.RC5 New Features

A new @IntegrationTest annotation has been added to help when writing integration tests for Spring Boot.
The CRaSH shell now exposes an endpoint command that can be used to obtain actuator information.

The reference material for this project is updated and have lot of information for the developers to get started on writing their Spring Book applications.

Spring Data Couchbase 1.0 GA Released!!

March 15, 2014 by Krishna Srinivasan Leave a Comment

Spring Data Couchbase 1.0 GA released and announced by the Spring IO team. The Spring Data Couchbase project is a part of the Spring Data project and provides the spring programming model for new data stores while retaining store-specific features and capabilities. The goal of the Spring Data project is to provide the spring programming model for the application which uses the latest data driven technologies like non-relational, big data, etc.

The Spring Data Couchbase project provides integration with the Couchbase Server database. There have been changes and improvements that led to the GA release of the project. Notable additions are the support for custom converters, JSR-303 Validation support and built-in support for temporal objects like Dates, Calendars and similar JodaTime variants. Also team announced that this project will be soon integrated to other Spring projects Spring Boot, Spring XD.

Also Read:

Spring 4 Tutorials

Spring Tutorials

The artifacts for maven are available for the download.

[code lang=”xml”]
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.data</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-data-couchbase</artifactId>
<version>1.0.0.RELEASE</version>
</dependency>
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If you want to try the snapshot versions of the major upcoming releases, please use the below artifacts instead:

[code lang=”xml”]
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.data</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-data-couchbase</artifactId>
<version>1.1.0.BUILD-SNAPSHOT</version>
</dependency>

<repository>
<id>spring-libs-snapshot</id>
<name>Spring Snapshot Repository</name>
<url>http://repo.spring.io/libs-snapshot</url>
</repository>
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New Features in Spring Data Couchbase 1.0

Spring configuration support using Java based @Configuration classes or an XML namespace for the Couchbase driver.
CouchbaseTemplate helper class that increases productivity performing common Couchbase operations. Includes integrated object mapping between documents and POJOs.
Exception translation into Spring’s portable Data Access Exception hierarchy.
Feature Rich Object Mapping integrated with Spring’s Conversion Service.
Annotation based mapping metadata but extensible to support other metadata formats.
Automatic implementation of Repository interfaces including support for custom finder methods (backed by Couchbase Views).
JMX administration and monitoring
Transparent @Cacheable support to cache any objects you need for high performance access.

You can find more details about the project at : Spring Data Couchbase Project