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+SPRING DATA RIAK INTEGRATION CHANGELOG
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+http://www.springsource.org/spring-data
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+Changes in version 1.0.0.M2 (2010-12-dd)
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+General
+* Generified RiakTemplate for exception translation, serialization, and data access
+* Built-in HTTP REST client based on Spring 3.0 RestTemplate
+* java.io and Spring IO resource abstractions for reading/writing streams
+* java.io.File subclass that represents a Riak resource
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