We recently announced the Java Development Kit 7 Update 25 (JDK 7u25) release with JavaFX 2.2.25. You can download it from the Java SE Downloads page. If you have questions, the Oracle tech pubs teams have been busy documenting the changes. The JDK 7u25 Release Notes have information about the new features. Also, these pieces of documentation have been updated: The Java Rich Internet Applications Development and Deployment Guide The Java Tutorials "Deployment" Trail The File Chooser chapter of the JavaFX UI Controls Tutorial You can read a detailed list of changes in the blog JDK 7u25 and JavaFX 2.2.25 Documentation Updates. Thanks, Oracle tech writers!

Dear Spring Community, I'm happy to announce the release of Spring Social Facebook 1.0.3.RELEASE. Spring Social is an extension of the Spring Framework that enables you to connect your Java applications to Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) providers such as Facebook and Twitter. Spring Social Facebook 1.0.3.RELEASE is made available to address breaking changes forthcoming in Facebook's Graph API to be applied on July 10, 2013. Specifically, the following breaking changes have been addressed: The removal of the 'count' property in a list of comments. Deprecation of checkins via the /checkins resource. All checkins should be done as posts with a location now. Removal of the 'version' property for groups. The Graph API no longer returns images for photos with sizes larger than the original image size. In addition, a handful of small improvements were made to Spring Social Facebook's API binding. See the changelog for details. To get the software, download the release distribution or change the Spring Social Facebook dependency in your build file to reference 1.0.3.RELEASE. Important: This release includes changes to enable Spring Social Facebook to work after the July 2013 Breaking Changes. In order for this version of Spring Social Facebook to work prior to July 10, 2013, you'll need to configure your application at Facebook to enable the July 2013 Breaking Changes. Within Facebook's application configuration, go to "Settings->Advanced" and click the "Enabled" radio button next to "July 2013 Breaking Changes". We invite you to discuss this release as well as the continuing work toward Spring Social 1.1.0 in the Spring Social Forum and to report any bugs or improvements in the Spring Social Facebook issue tracker.

Oracle addressed 40 security issues in Java and enabled online certificate revocation checking by default in its scheduled critical patch update for Java on Tuesday.

When it comes to analyzing your web application's performance, TraceView has already instruments a wide spectrum of Java components, such as application servers, frameworks and JDBC connections, all with the convenience of simply including TraceView Java agent jar in your JVM. However, have you come across situations that make you think, "It would have been nice if this was traced too"? You can do this with the TraceView Java API. Have you seen a slowdown in your code, and have some methods you'd like to check? The simplest way is to add the @LogMethod or @ProfileMethod annotation to those methods. Invocations to those methods will then be traced by the Java agent and reflected on your TraceView panels. Since you can assign different layer/profile names for those methods, you can easily group them and gather useful statistics from your TraceView pages! (Heat map, layer/profile summary etc). You might even turn on back trace tracking or store the method return values by tweaking various optional parameters.

Platform as a Service has gained great popularity over the past two years. Many vendors have rewritten their middleware handbooks, and discarded existing investments in Java EE. With the rapid growth in interest around mobile, we're starting to hear the same things: that existing middleware implementations and approaches are simply not right for the mobile developer. Red Hat's Mark Little believes it's risky to write off middleware in all this. In this session from JAX 2012, Little discusses the need for enterprise Java in both Cloud and Mobile. He also looks at how Java, the JVM and associated standards and communities need to evolve in order to better serve these two growing and important aspects in computing.breaker

Apple on Tuesday patched Java 6 for OS X Snow Leopard, Lion and Mountain Lion, fixing 34 flaws that Oracle addressed the same day for Windows.

Oracle's latest critical patch update addresses 37 vulnerabilities in all versions of Java that can be exploited without authentication over a network. Free updates are only available for Java 7 users

JAX Editor Chris Mayer catches a few minutes with Eclipse Orion project lead Ken Walker to discuss the browser IDE and its design goal, its difference from the main Eclipse projects and which technologies you can pull into it.breaker

Welcome back to another installation of This Week in Spring! What a week! We're fast approaching the final stretch of the journey to SpringOne2GX 2013 and preparations are underway at full tilt. This year's going to be memorable. I wish I could tell you more, but trust me when I say you need to be at this show this year! :) Anyway, let's get on with the roundup! Mark Pollack has announced the release of Spring XD 1.0 milestone 1. Spring XD is a unified, distributed, and extensible system for data ingestion, real time analytics, batch processing, and data export. The project's goal is to simplify the development of big data applications. Join Tony Erksine from Liberty University on June 27th as he instructs us How to talk Spring and Influence People, a pragmatic lesson on soft skills and technology adoption strategies needed to help get other people in your company excited about and using, new technology -- in this case, with Spring. Want a pass to SpringOne 2GX 2013? If you're a Spring champion, show off your stuff on our champions forum and follow these instructions by June 21, 2013. You might be one of our 5 lucky winners! (If you're a Groovy & Grails or Cloud Foundry champion, never fear, we will be rolling out future contests for you!) Head over to gopivotal.com for the next blog in the Hadoop 101 series -- How to Use Spring Batch with Spring for Apache Hadoop. We're excited to launch A Week of Spring in conjunction with Manning Publications. Check out this post for more information on great discounts for titles covering SpringSource technologies! Every day we're posting a new 50% discount code for two books. Our pal Tobias Fiohre is back at it again, this time with not one, not two, but three posts on Java configuration support for Spring Batch, just released in the latest Spring Batch 2.2.0.RELEASE of Spring Batch. The first post looks at how Spring Batch's Java configuration support compares with the XML equivalents. The second post looks at the Spring Batch StepScope, which lets you configure jobs with parameters provided at runtime (as opposed to design-time. The third post looks at how to use the new configuration style with Spring's environment profiles feature. Johnathan Mark Smith has put together a post on how use Spring MVC and Spring MVC Test Xavier Padro's has put together a nice post that introduces Spring's core Aspect-Oriented Programming support. The video replay of the webinar from the Broadleaf Commerce project on their migration from GWT to Spring MVC is now online at our SpringSourceDev YouTube channel. This isn't strictly Spring-related, but I felt it worth mentioning: Java 9 is slated to drop support for compiling Java 1.4-or-older source code. Java 8 is approaching (finally!), and Spring 4 will offer first class support for Java 8 lambas. Java 6 is EOL as of February 2013, so if you're not already on Java 7, consider just making the jump to Java 8 when it drops early next year. If you're migrating right now, definitely consider looking at Java 7 at a minimum. Spring, of course, works well with older JDK versions, but we often provide functionality specific to newer language releases if they're available. For example, we debuted annotations (like @Transactional) when Java 5 made it feasible, as an addition to our then primary support for commons annotations, even while we supported Java 1.3 and 1.4. Java 8 is no different. I did a webinar last week on building REST APIs with Spring. The webinar video will be up soon on our SpringSource Developer YouTube channel. For the many who've asked, the code is available on my GitHub account, and the slides are available on my SlideShare account. Check them out! Petri Kainulainen has put together a really detailed, easily-read post on how to plugin a property from a property file when configuring the @Scheduled annotation's CRON expression

Today we are raising the maximum payload size for the Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS) and the Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS) from 64 KB to 256 KB. We are also adding a new option to allow you to opt...

Ryan Senior introduces CLP using core.logic through examples and live coding based on some logic puzzles, providing the essential background to have some fun with core.logic and CLP. By Ryan Senior

Howard Lewis Ship overviews Spock, a testing framework for the JVM. By Howard Lewis Ship

Oracle has released Java SE 7 Update 25. This release includes important security fixes. Oracle strongly recommends that all Java SE 7 users upgrade to this release. For more information, see the Oracle Java SE Critical Patch Update Advisory. Download Release Notes Here some important changes to note: Java API Documentation Updater Tool To address CVE-2013-1571, users hosting publicly facing Java API Documentation generated with javadoc 5u45, 6u45, 7u21, or earlier are strongly encouraged to re-create the Java API documentation using javadoc from 7u25 or above. Alternatively, for convenience of users and for those who have further modified the generated documentation, Oracle provides the Java API Documentation Updater, a repair-in-place tool. Source code is available if you have a non-standard environment. The Java API Documentation Updater Tool is a separate download and not included in any JDK/JRE bundles. New JAR Manifest File Attributes JDK 7u25 release introduces the permissions and codebase attributes in the JAR Manifest File. These attributes are used to verify that the application is requesting the correct permissions level and is accessed from the correct location. See Preventing the Repurposing of an Application document. Developers are advised to utilize at least the new permissions attribute, and if possible the codebase attribute as well. In future releases, applications that do not include these protections may be blocked or subjected to additional warning dialogs.