Josh Long

Josh Long

Josh (@starbuxman) is the Spring Developer Advocate at Pivotal and a Java Champion. He's host of "A Bootiful Podcast" (https://soundcloud.com/a-bootiful-podcast), host of the "Spring Tips Videos" (http://bit.ly/spring-tips-playlist), co-author of 6+ books (http://joshlong.com/books.html), and instructor on 8+ Livelessons Training Videos (http://joshlong.com/livelessons.html)

Recent Blog posts by Josh Long

This Week in Spring - October 10th, 2017

Engineering | October 10, 2017 | ...
Hi Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! By happy coincidence, today is also Ada Lovelace day. According to the Finding Ada site: Ada Lovelace Day (ALD) is an international celebration day of the achievements of women in science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM). It aims to increase the profile of women in STEM and, in doing so, create new role models who will encourage more girls into STEM careers and support women already working in STEM. Happy Ada Lovelace day! I've just returned from the epic ByteMyCode conference in Wroclaw, Poland, and am now in…

Spring co-founder and Spring Framework lead Juergen Hoeller wins JAX Special Jury Award

Engineering | October 10, 2017 | ...
The JAX Innovation awards just took place. The Spring team has been a recipient of the award in a few cases over the years (and a nominee in even more cases), but this year was exceptional. This year, the jury awarded Spring co-founder and lead engineer Juergen Hoeller (or Jürgen Höller, in his native (Austrian) German language) the Special Jury Award. We don't normally talk about individuals on this blog, but few can be said to have done so much towards making Spring - and all that has come as a result of it - so successful as Juergen Hoeller has, and does. The JAX Innovation Awards…

Spring Tips: Reactive Spring Security

Engineering | October 04, 2017 | ...
Speaker: Josh Long Hi Spring fans! In this tip, we'll look at the reactive programming support in Spring Security 5.0. We'll look at it in terms of its integration with Spring WebFlux, the reactive web runtime and framework in Spring Framework 5.

This Week in Spring - October 3rd, 2017 - Spring Framework 5.0 Edition!

Engineering | October 03, 2017 | ...
Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This last week's been nuts! So much good stuff on offer. Spring Framework 5.0 is now available! And with Spring Framework 5.0 comes a deluge of releases, all of which you'll see in this post. Also, this week I - and others from the Pivotal and Spring teams - are at JavaOne and I hope you'll come find us and say hi at our booth or the various talks. Last week I looked at using Spring Framework 5's support for building reactive websocket-based applications. Spring AMQP and Spring Integration lead Gary Russell has just announced Spring…

Spring Tips: Reactive WebSockets with Spring Framework 5

Engineering | September 27, 2017 | ...
Speaker: Josh Long Hi Spring fans! In this tip, we'll look at building a Kotlin-language reactive websocket-based application with the new web runtime and framework, Spring WebFlux, in Spring Framework 5. In order to keep things interesting, we also connect our websocket-backend to a frontend written using an Angular 4 and TypeScript.

This Week in Spring - September 26th, 2017 (Java 9 Edition)

Engineering | September 26, 2017 | ...
Hi Spring fans! What a crazy wonderful week it's been! I'm back in San Francisco talking to customers and local partners about all things Pivotal and, also, just enjoying some fun in the San Francisco Sun while playing with Java 9 . There's so much to like in this new release and so much to look forward to and, of course, Spring Framework 5 is Java 9 ready out of the box. Spring IO Platform lead Andy Wilkinson just announced Spring IO Platform Brussels SR5. The new release includes Spring AMQP 1.7.4, Spring Boot 1.5.7, Spring Data Ingalls SR7, Spring Framework 4.3.11, Spring Integration 4.3.1…

This Week in Spring - September 19th, 2017

Engineering | September 19, 2017 | ...
Hi Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This week I've been visiting the Spring and Cloud Foundry teams at Microsoft (this time, in Redmond, WA) and then it's off to San Francisco, CA and San Antonio, TX to visit some customers. So, with that, let's get to it! I loved this Pivotal Engineering post on how we transitioned Pivotal Web Services, our hosted, multitenant installation of Cloud Foundry, to CredHub. CredHub is designed to store passwords, keys, certificates, and other sensitive information for a BOSH-managed environment. Spring Boot ninja Brian Clozel…

This Week in Spring - September 12th, 2017

Engineering | September 11, 2017 | ...
Hi Spring fans! This week I'm in Singapore for the amazing YOW! Singapore event and talking to customers. Also, I'll be doing a meetup on testing - don't miss it! It's almost time for Spring 5! Spring Framework lead Juergen Hoeller just announced Spring Framework 5.0.RC4, which is aligned with Spring Boot 2.0.M4, JUnit 5, and Reactor 3.1 RC1. This might be your last chance to kick the tires before the big release! There's so much new stuff in this release! This is pretty interesting! There's a Spring Cloud Config Server MongoDB project in the Spring Cloud incubator. Try it out! Spring…

This Week in Spring - September 5th, 2017

Engineering | September 04, 2017 | ...
Hi Spring fans and welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This week I'm in Hong Kong for the amazing YOW! Hong Kong event and then it's off to Singapore for the YOW! Singapore event. If you're in either region, these conferences are world-class events from Australia and they're new in the region so I hope you'll give them a shot. Check out this first of many introductions to various aspects of Spring Cloud Data Flow. This first introduction, by Spring Cloud Data Flow ninja Eric Bottard, looks at the Spring Cloud Data Flow shell itself. Spring Cloud contributor Ryan Baxter just…

This Week in Spring - August 29th, 2017

Engineering | August 29, 2017 | ...
Hi Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This week I was in Beijing, China for the fabulous Spring Summit event which saw technologists from all around China descend on the capitol for a discussion of all things cloud native and Spring. Then I'm off to Shenzhen, China and Hong Kong for customer visits and the epic YOW! Hong Kong show! Pivotal have released a commercial version of the Concourse CI pipeline tool for Cloud Foundry. Check it, and Spring Cloud Pipelines, out! I liked Bruno Leite's post on error handling in a Spring Boot-based REST API. You might like…

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