Hi Spring fans and welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This week I'm in Krakow, Poland for the epic Devoxx PL event and then it's off to Luxembourg for the VoxxedDays Luxembourg event! If you're around, don't hesitate to say hi Spring Framework lead Juergen Hoeller just announced Spring Framework 5.0 RC2. The new release is a major revision of RC1, refactoring the reactive support and path pattern parsing. It introduces JSR 305 based @Nullable / @NonNullApi Spring annotations into the codebase. Spring Data Release Train Kay M4 Released - Spring Data ninja Mark Paluch just…
Hi Spring fans! This week I'm in Redmond, hanging out with our friends and Pivotal partner Microsoft talking about Cloud Foundry on Microsoft Azure. As you may know, Microsoft's Azure IaaS platform is the #2 most widely used cloud and it's growing! It's got more datacenters than the other two cloud vendors in more regions (including in Germany and China!) and a huge raft of services that support both Windows and Linux operating systems. There's so much exciting stuff coming up including Azure Stack, which runs Azure on-premise, and the amazing integration between Azure and PCF. I'm looking…
Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This week I'm in Malaysia and then Singapore where I'll spend time with customers in the financial services world and speak at the Singapore Spring User Group on June 8th. If you're around, come out or say hi! Spring IO Platform lead and Spring Boot ninja Andy Wilkinson just announced the Gradle Dependency management plugin 1.0.3 Spring web guru has just announced Spring Web Flow 2.4.5 the Baeldung blog has a nice look at Spring Boot and Kotlin Ranga Karanam put together a nice look at building web applications with Spring Boot I liked…
Hi Spring fans! This week I'm in Chicago for the epic Spring Days Chicago and then I'm off to Singapore for VOXXED Singapore. We've got a lot to cover so let's get to it! Spring Security ninja Joe Grandja has just announced the new Spring Security OAuth 2.1.1 and 2.0.4 Spring Cloud Data Flow engineer Gunnar Hillert just announced Spring Cloud Data Flow 1.2.1 Spring Cloud co-founder Spencer Gibb just announced Spring Cloud Dalston SR1 I liked Jonas Hecht's post looking at how to run Spring Boot on Docker Windows I loved this post from RedHat engineer Sébastien Blanc on using Keycloak, their…
Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This week I'm in Amsterdam, NL and Essen, DE, talking to customers about cloud-native transformation. We've got a lot to cover so let's get to it. Spring Tool Suite lead Martin Lippert just announced a preview of Concourse Pipeline and Cloud Foundry manifest editing support releases as a language server. These language servers can be used by any IDE or text editor that supports them, including in this case Microsoft's Visual Studio Code and later STS itself. Spring Cloud Stream ninja Soby Chako just announced Spring Cloud Stream.SR2 Simon…
Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This week I am in Munich for the Spring Meetup; Berlin for OSDC; Krakow for Geecon; Barcelona for Spring I/O, and Eindhoven for NextBuild. If you're around, say hi. As usual, we've got a lot to cover so let's get to it! Dr. Mark Pollack just announced Spring Cloud Data Flow 1.2GA!, including the server editions for local, Kubernetes, YARN and Cloud Foundry. This new release is packed with good stuff. I particularly like the support for composed tasks, which lets me orchestrate a flow of tasks as a cohesive unit-of-work. This is ideal for…
Hi Spring fans! This week I'm in Austin, Texas for OSCON; London, UK, for Devoxx UK; and Nice, France for RivieraDev! If you're around, I'd love to talk to you so don't hesitate to say hi! Spring Framework 5 RC1 is now available! InfoQ has a nice post on the new Spring Vault release Spring Integration lead Gary Russell just announced Spring AMQP 2.0M4 is now available Spring Cloud ninja Ryan Baxter just announced Spring Cloud Camden SR7 has been released I liked this short-but-sweet look at the Pivotal Cloud Cache on Pivotal Cloud Foundry, in terms of a Spring Boot application Periodic…
Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This week I'm in Perth, Australia, for the amazing YOW! West conference, talking to developers about building cloud native Java applications. If you're around, say hi. As usual, we've got a lot to cover so let's get to it! I'm super excited about our first Spring Days event, on May 30-31, in Chicago. I'll be there along with other Spring gurus like Eddu Melendez, Anupama Pradhan, and Michael Minella. I hope you'll join us! Spring IO lead Any Wilkinson has announced Spring IO Platform Athens-SR5. He also announced Spring IO Platform…
Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This week I'm in beautiful Bangalore, India, at the 10th edition of the great, Great Indian Developer Summit! Then, I'm off to Perth, Australia, for YOW! West. If you're around, say hi!. We've got a lot to cover, so let's get to it! Spring REST Docs lead Andy Wilkinson just announced Spring REST Docs 1.2.0! This new release includes smarter Asciidoctor integration, support for request-and-response snippets, and better support for large and complex payloads. At the same time, Andy also released Spring REST Docs 1.1.3, a maintenance release…
Hi Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This week I'm in Atlanta, GA, at DevOps Days Atlanta, and Boston for the Agile Tech Alliance conference. If you're around for either I'd love to see you - say hi! Don't miss me, Spring Team members, and community speakers at the upcoming Spring Days Chicago, New York and Atlanta events! As usual, we've got a lot to cover so let's get to it! The WebFlux functional reactive support in Spring Framework 5.0 is really catching on! I particularly enjoyed this post called Spring: Your Next Microframework Baeldung has a great post…
