Early Access: SpringSource Tool Suite for Eclipse Indigo (3.7)
The Eclipse Indigo (3.7) M6a packages are available for download from Eclipse since a few days, so its time for us to allow you to use the SpringSource Tool Suite (STS) on top of that milestone version. Its just an early access version of STS, but we managed to get all the pieces together for Read more…
Extending Spring Social's Service Provider Framework
Last week, I introduced you to Spring Social's Service Provider "Connect" Framework and showed you how it simplifies creating connections between a user's local application account and their accounts on Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) providers. Today I want to show you how to extend the service provider framework to handle connections to providers that aren't directly supported Read more…
Addressing a Big New Audience: VMware Acquires WaveMaker
Today, VMware announces with this blog the acquisition of WaveMaker, a widely used graphical tool that enables non-expert developers to build web applications quickly. While WaveMaker is already part of the Spring ecosystem, it will now become an integral part of the Spring family and VMware’s cloud strategy. All of WaveMaker’s staff will be joining Read more…
Introducing Spring Social's Service Provider Framework
In my previous post, I introduced you to Spring Social's Java bindings to popular Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) APIs such as Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, and TripIt. In addition to providing simple, strongly-typed Java methods for common API operations, these bindings ensure each HTTP request includes the credentials required to authorize your application to invoke the API on Read more…
