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 24th, 2017

Engineering | October 24, 2017 | ...
Hi Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! Can you believe we're already staring down the end of October 2017? This year has flown by! What a rush! This week I'm home in sunny San Francisco talking to customers and giving talks. I'll be speaking "at" the vJUG 24 online conference. The conference lasts 24 hours! There's a talk every hour, from as many timezones as possible! I hope you'll join me (and thousands of others) as we look at Reactive Spring at 04:00 GMT on Wednesday. And, of course, I hope you'll register and join my friend and Grails co-founder Jeff Scott…

Spring Tips: Bootiful JAX-RS

Engineering | October 18, 2017 | ...
Speaker: Josh Long Hi Spring fans! In this tip, we'll look at how to integrate a Spring Boot application with JAX-RS (using the Jersey reference implementation). JAX-RS is a JCP standard for building REST applications.

This Week in Spring - October 17th, 2017

Engineering | October 17, 2017 | ...
Hi Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This week I've been in Dallas and Austin, Texas, first for customer meetings and then to attend and speak at the epic Reactive Summit. If you're around, don't hesitate to say hi on Twitter! We've got a lot to cover so let's get to it! Also, I'll be doing a webinar with our friends at OCI on November 9th, 2017, on Grails for the Spring Developer, with my friend and Grails co-founder Jeff Scott Brown. I hope you'll join us! Last week, SpringSource co-founder and Spring Framework lead Juergen Hoeller won a JAX Special Jury…

Spring Tips: Bootiful, Reactive Scala

Engineering | October 11, 2017 | ...
Speaker: Josh Long Hi Spring fans! In this tip, we'll look at the bootiful possibilities of integrating Spring Boot and Spring WebFlux, the reactive web runtime and framework in Spring Framework 5, with Scala and the Scala ecosystem and integrating the Spring WebFlux reacive runtime with other Reactive Streams implementations like Akka Streams.

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…

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