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 - March 28th, 2017

Engineering | March 28, 2017 | ...
Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This week I'm in Omaha, Nebraska, speaking to customers and tonight I'll be presenting at an event co-sponsored by the Omaha, JUG and the local Omaha, Spring Users Group, talking about reactive Spring. Don't be shy, come out and say hi! Sébastien Deleuze just introduced the 1.0.0.M1 relese of extensions supporting using Project Reactor in the Kotlin language Spring REST Docs lead Andy Wilkinson just announced Spring REST Docs 1.2.0.RC1. Try it out now! For a good example of Spring REST Docs, scroll down and you'll see a very nice one from…

This Week in Spring - March 21st, 2017

Engineering | March 22, 2017 | ...
Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This week I'm visiting with customers and am presenting at the first Devoxx US event in San Jose, California. If you're around, don't hesitate to stop by and say hi at the Pivotal booth on the expo hall. As usual, we've got a lot to cover so let's get to it! Spring Cloud Dalston RC1 is now available! Get the bits while they're hot! Spring Cloud Task contributor Glenn Renfro just announced Spring Cloud Task 1.2.0.M2 Marius Bogoevici just announced Spring Cloud Stream Chelsea RC1 Spring Cloud Vault lead Mark Paluch just announced the 1.…

This Week in Spring - March 14th, 2017

Engineering | March 14, 2017 | ...
Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This week I'm in Chicago on business and preparing for next week, where I'll be at the first Devoxx US event, ever!. I hope to see you there! last week, I continued the Spring Tips series with a look at how to implement server-sent events using classic Spring MVC and Spring WebFlux in Spring Framework 5, due this summer Last week, Pivotal and Google announced Kubo, the ability to run and manage Kubernetes, on top of BOSH, alongside Cloud Foundry. This means that it's now possible to get support for both Pivotal Cloud Foundry and Kubernetes…

This Week in Spring - March 7th, 2017

Engineering | March 07, 2017 | ...
Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! As usual, we've got a lot to cover so let's get to it! Spring ninja Stéphane Nicoll has just announced Spring Boot 1.4.5 and 1.5.2, both of which are packed with small improvements and bug-fixes. Spring Security ninja Joe Grandja just announced Spring Security OAuth 2.1.0 and 2.0.13. This release includes new features supporting JSON Web Signature (JWS) verification using JSON Web Key (JWK). This feature provides support for authorization servers and have implemented key rollover/rotation. Spring Security lead Rob Winch just announced…

This Week in Spring - February 28th, 2017

Engineering | February 28, 2017 | ...
Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! As usual, we've got a lot to cover so let's get to it! My friend Kenny Bastani and I will be doing a training for O'Reilly on the first and second of March introducing all things Spring, Spring Boot, Spring Cloud and Cloud Foundry - join us! The long awaited public beta of Spring Cloud Services is now live on our public Cloud Foundry, PIvotal Web Services! Spring web ninja Rossen Stoyanchev just announced the the M5 milestone release of Spring 5, complete with support for a WebClient testing mechanism Eric Bottard has just announced Spring…

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