Spring Data Document with MongoDB Support 1.0.0.M2 Released

Dear Spring Community,

I am pleased to announce that the second milestone release of the Spring Data Document 1.0 project with MongoDB support is now available!
The primary goal of the <b>Spring Data</B> project is to make it easier to build Spring-powered applications that use new data access technologies such as non-relational databases, map-reduce frameworks, and cloud based data services.
The MongoDB module provides integration with the MongoDB document database.

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To learn more about the project, visit the Spring Data MongoDB Page.

The changes and new features in Spring Data Document 1.0.0.M2 include:


General

• Spring configuration support using Java based @Configuration classes

Core Data Access

• Persistence and mapping lifecycle events
• GeoSpatial integration
• [DATADOC-76] - Add support for findAndRemove to MongoTemplate/MongoOperations
• [DATADOC-5] - Provide detailed mapping of Mongo errors onto Spring DAO exception
• [DATADOC-51] - Fixed issue with exceptions thrown when authenticating multiple times for same DB instance

Querying

• [DATADOC-72] - Add support for Mongo's $elemMatch and chained Criteria
• [DATADOC-77] - Rename "and" method in Query to "addCritera"
• [DATADOC-67] - Criteria API to support keywords for geo search

Mapping

• Feature Rich Object Mapping integrated with Spring's Conversion Service
• Annotation based mapping metadata but extensible to support other metadata formats
• [DATADOC-60] - Add namespace support to setup a MappingMongoConverter
• [DATADOC-33] - Introduce annotation to demarcate id field in a domain object

Repository

• [DATADOC-47, DATACMNS-17] - Adapted new metamodel API
• [DATADOC-46] - Added support for 'In' and 'NotIn' keyword
• [DATADOC-49] - Fixed 'And' and 'Or' keywords
• [DATADOC-41] - Added support for executing QueryDsl predicates
• [DATADOC-69] - Let repository namespace pickup the default mapping context bean and allow configuration
• [DATADOC-24] - Allow use of @Query annotation to define queries
• [DATADOC-34] - Create indexes for columns that are mentioned in query methods

Cross-Store

• [DATADOC-48] - Cross-store persistance - support for JPA Entities with fields transparently persisted/retrieved using MongoDB

Logging

• [DATADOC-66] - Log4j log appender

Looking forward to your feedback on the forum or in the issue tracker.

I just tried to set up a project using mongodb and the spring-data 1.0.0-M2 libraries.
My tests failed due to a (probably) missing class:

Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.springframework.data.mapping.context.MappingCo ntextAware

For the initialization I used any jar files from data-documents-core and data-commons-core available from your download sites (1.0.0M2). These jars does not contain the org.framework.data.mapping.(context|model) packages required for the most recent MongoTemplate. I do not use the Maven dependencies.

I looked around for a while but failed to locate more recent releases from data-commons.

i was able to get it loaded with the following.

<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.data</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-data-commons-core</artifactId>
<version>1.0.0.RC1</version>
</dependency>

Hi,
I've created an issue for how to handle this for users who don't use maven.
Mark