Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring where, with 2016 just around the corner, we'll look at some interesting news from the last week and we'll take a moment to review another amazing year in the Spring and Pivotal ecosystem.

Now let's look at an short-and-sweet list of the latest-and-greatest from the last week:

• Got a Amazon.com gift card burning a hole in your pocket from the holidays? Well, fret not, I've got just the thing for you! At long last, Spring legend Craig Walls' epic Spring Boot in Action is available! Get it while it's hot! GO GO GO!
• Netflix's Genie, which is a job scheduling and resource management layer for big-data jobs based on Spring Boot has just recently cut over from Swagger to Spring REST Docs
• Christoph Burmeister put together an introduction to building a fullstack web application with Spring Boot
• This Portuguse-language post looks at starting a new project …

Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This week, many of us will be off for the Christmas holiday. If you celebrate, then let me wish you the Merriest of Christmases from our team. If you don't celebrate, we'll see you next week as we look at our annual This Year in Spring! and welcome 2016!

Holiday or not, there's a lot of great stuff to read this week so let's get to it!

1. If you're using Spring Cloud Eureka and Jersey you may run into issues because Eureka itself uses Jersey 1.x where as Spring Boot's Jersey support is based on Jersey 1. Read how Aleksandar Stoisavljevic solved it
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Wow! It's December 15th, friends; many of us on this planet will soon celebrate a new year! Hopefully, you've done a better job than I have of getting all my new year's resolutions finished in time for 2016! If you haven't, at least catching up on the latest and greatest in the Pivotal community won't be insurmountable! Let's see what's happened this week..

• Greg Turnquist's epic blog series on using Spring with React.js is now available online as a tutorial
• Spring Batch lead Michael Minella just announced Spring Batch 3.0.6 which contains lots of great contributions and bug fixes from the community
• the good Dr. David Syer put together a very good look at Spring Boot's memory characteristics in various configurations
• Spring RestDocs lead Andy Wilkinson just announced Spring Rest Docs 1.0.1 which is maintenance release that includes a number of changes, including improved support for documenting attributes in XML payloads. An immediate
• Spring Social lead Craig Walls has been hard at work adapting Spring Social to a recent breaking change…

Welcome to another installation of This Week in Spring! This week I'm in Chicago speaking to customers and then it's off to Washington D.C., and New York City for Cloud Native meetups! I hope you'll consider joining us at either event!

Time sure is flying! We're darned close to 2016!

Anyway, as usual, lots to cover so let's get to it!

• I really like the looks of this Caffeine local cache. It uses a pretty interesting algorithm to ensure near optimal cache hits It already features a JSR 170 (JCache) integration which means using it could be as simple as configuring the JCache adapter along with Spring's Cache abstraction.
• I really enjoyed Pivotal Labs' Brian Kelly's presentation, Spring Boot for Rails Developers. Check it out!
• 3Pillar has an interesting post on using Spring Boot with Docker
• Spring Framework lead Juergen Hoeller has revisited the Spring 5.0 roadmap in light of the recent 6 month delay for JDK 9
• Spring RestDocs lead, Spring IO Platform lead, and Spring Boot ninja Andy Wilkinson …

Wow! Can you believe we're already staring down 2016? Time sure flies! Remember, This Week in Spring was started the first week of 2011, so we'll soon mark the fifth anniversairry of TWiS!

This week I'm in Shanghai, China, for the Cloud Foundry Summit Asia and then off to Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, USA, for the Rich Web Experience! If you're in either place, don't hesitate to reach me!

As usual, we've got a lot to cover so let's get to it!

• Spring Boot co-founder and Spring framework contributor Phil Webb put up a really thoughtful post helping people looking at Spring (which has been around for 10+ years) to avoid some of the common pitfalls facing new developers in 2016. A very recommended read!
• Florian Benz did a great job discussing the motivations and use of comprehensive REST documentation as generated with Spring Rest Docs. This is a really cool, quick read!
• Speaking of Spring Rest Docs, there's a great interview with the project lead, the amazing Andy Wilkinson who - in his ample free time - also manages the Spring IO Platform as well as contributes to Spring Boot. Read on to learn more about one of my heroes…

Welcome to another installation of This Week in Spring! Here in the US it's the week of Thanksgiving, where - hopefully - we take a moment to note the many things for which we're thankful. I'm sure I speak for the whole team here at Pivotal when I say: we're thankful for you, dear community. Thank you.

And so, as usual, we've got a lot to get to it. All the better, in fact, for the lazy hours after turkey!

• Dr. Mark Pollack has just announced the release of Spring XD 1.3 GA and Spring Flo for Spring XD 1.0. This is a huge release! Spring XD 1.3.0 supports job composition DSLs, Spring Flo for Spring XD, an improved Admin UI, Spark 1.3.1, updates to the Spring Data and Spring for Hadoop distributions, a Cassandra Sink and much more! It is also the last in the line before Spring XD completes its journey to the archhitecture already partially laid out in Spring Cloud Stream and Spring Cloud Dataflow! This is an exciting evolution of the technology!
• Spring Security and Spring Session lead Rob Winch has just announced Spring Session 1.1.0.M1 complete with a lot of new features: searching HTTP sessions by username, HttpSessionListener support, customized Cookie creation, overriding the default RedisSerializer…

My goodness the time has flown! We're already staring down the beginning of 2016!

Welcome to another installation of This Week in Spring! This week I'm in beautiful Casablanca, Morocco for Devoxx Morocco! This is the fifth Devoxx this year - with events in Belgium, UK, France, Poland and now Morocco - and I have the rare honor of having spoken at all of them! #fullDevoxx

We've got a lot to cover this week so let's get to it!

• Spring Boot 1.3 has just been released! This is the most epic release of Spring Boot yet and I won't even try to do the release notes! Just go check it out and visit the Spring Initialzr
• Spring framework 4.2.3 has just been released!
• Netflix have just announced the open-sourcing of their build-and-bake pipeline for continuous delivery - project Spinnaker. It's interesting for lots of reasons, but one of them is that it's written using Spring Boot!
• I'll be coming to Washington DC with several of my cloudiest friends - join us!
• There's a new checkbox on the Spring Initializr to enable the Ratpack Spring Boot integration…

Welcome to another installation of This Week in Spring! This week I'm in Antwerp, Belgium for the grand mother of all Devoxxes (Devoxxen?), Devoxx Belgium! I'm here along with several members of the team and if you're around, don't hesitate to say hi!

• Dr. Mark Pollack has just announced the release of Spring XD 1.3RC1
• Stormpath, the cloud, and on-premise, identity provider as-a-service has put up an exhaustive blog on using their Spring Boot auto-configuration with Spring Security! This is a really cool integration. I hope people reward their hard work in striving for the most powerful, expressive, and convenient developer experience! Way to go!
• Check out this short-and-sweet article on DZone to learn about Spring Boot's auto-configuration mechanism
• The Spring framework Guru is back with a video tutorial …

Welcome to another installation of This Week in Spring! This week I'm in Sofia, Bulgaria for one of my favorite shows, the epic Java2Days event!

Last week saw the release (finally!) of Pivotal Cloud Foundry 1.6, which contains more than a year and half of highly anticipated features and heavy lifting. The new release includes, among many other things, support for platform-managed GitLab, JFrog Artifactory, and CloudBees Jenkins CI; support for microservices infrastructure including the Spring Cloud Config Server, and Spring Cloud Eureka; and support for Docker container images and .NET applications; and support for running on Microsoft Azure. This release is packed with all sorts of features optimized for the continuous and safe delivery of software into production and I…

Welcome to another installation of This Week in Spring! This week I'm at JavaOne 2015 in San Francisco along with the rest of the Pivotal team. This week the Pivotal Spring team is out in full force, come stop by and say hi!

There are some great new SpringOne2GX 2015 recordings on line as well as some great community content this week so let's get to it!

• Spring Cloud cofounder's Spencer Gibb and Dr. David Syer's talk on the Spring Cloud Developer experience from SpringOne2GX 2015!
• Spring tools ninja Martin Lippert continues his series with this third installment on using Spring Boot Dashboard in STS
• Gary Russell has just announced a few new maintenance releases of Spring Integration
• Check out this upcoming IntelliJ IDEA webinar on the new Spring framework and Spring Boot support in IntelliJ IDEA with Spring ninja Stéphane Nicoll
• this post by Rajith Delantha walks through using Spring Security OAuth with Spring Boot
• My article on the …