Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This week I'm in New York City in advance of QCon NYC next week talking to customers and working with the local Pivotal Labs team. If you're around be sure to say hi and let's talk code.

So, as usual, we've got a lot to cover so let's get to it.

1. Our pal Nicolas Frankel's put together an awesome post on modularizing configuration for integration testing with Spring

• Spring Cloud co-lead Spencer Gibb just announced that Spring Cloud Consul 1.0.0.M1 is now available
• Don't miss Jamie O’Meara's upcoming webinar on continuous integration with Jenkins, Spring and Cloud Foundry
• Check out Phil Dutson's upcoming webinar on moving .jsp and JSTL pages to Thymeleaf
• Spring Integration lead Gary Russell just announced Spring Integration 4.2M1 is now available
• check out the replay of Marten Deinum's awesome talk that looks at how to modernize legacy applications with Spring
• Janne Valkealahti just announced that Spring Statemachine 1.0.0.M2 has been released.
• our pal Eugen Paraschiv did an interesting …

Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! There is a lot to talk about, so let's get to it!

• First, the big news! Spring framework lead and OG Spring Guy Juergen Hoeller just announced that Spring framework 4.2 RC1 is now available! This new release includes lots of amazing new features so be sure to check it out! It includes anotation detection on Java 8 default methods, annotation-based application events, first-class annotation attibute aliases, nest path processing for direct field binding, data binding and conversion for JSR 354 (money and currency), Hibernate ORM 5.0 support (via JPA and natively), a STOMP client for use over TCP and WebSocket channels, Listenable/…

Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! As usual, we've got a lot to cover this week so let's get to it!

• the good Dr. Dave Syer is back it again with this seventh installment on how to better modularize the Angular.js client that talks to a backend Spring Security, Spring Boot, and Spring Security OAuth-powered service and with this eighth installment which looks at how to test that Angular.js application!
• Spring Security lead and all around amazing, test-driven dude, Rob Winch just announced Spring Test HtmlUnit 1.0.0.RC1 with a lot of new polish.
• Spring Batch lead Michael Minella just announced that Spring Batch 3.0.4, a maintenance release, is now available
• Spring Social lead Craig Walls just announced that two maintenance releases, Spring Social 1.1.2 and Spring Social 1.1.1…

Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This week, I'm in Chicago, IL, for the spectacular GOTO conference, Chicago edition. If you're in the Chicago area, ping me on Twitter (@starbuxman). Cloud Foundry Summit just wrapped today as 1500 people came together to talk about the community and the technology. Spring made a strong showing, even getting a general session shoutout from James Watters for Spring Boot passing 1 Million downloads in April.

Now, without further ado..

• Spring Tool Suite ninja Kris De Volder just announced the new support for editing .yml files in STS - this is particularly awesome if you're using Spring Boot!
• Spring IO lead and all-around mad-scientist Andy Wilkinson just released the Gradle dependency management plugin 0.5.1.RELEASE. This plugin brings the power of Maven's dependencyManagement mechanism to Gradle and makes it easy to create consistent builds.
• Spring Integration lead Gary Russell just released Spring AMQP 1.4.5 and 1.5.0-M1. The 1.5 series introduces class-level @RabbitListener annotations (not just method-level ones), auto-declared queues and bindings, configurable exchange/routing Key for replies, a RabbitManagementTemplate…

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Warning: if you're a seasoned developer, than this may not be the post you're looking for. Keep reading, anyway. I'll bet you know some developers who are taking their first…

Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This week I'm in Las Vegas at the mega EMC World event.

• Spring Security lead Rob Winch has just announced that Spring Security SAML 1.0.1 is now available
• Phillip Verheyden's talk offers a very pragmatic look athow to move Spring 3 application - including dependencies like Jackson and Hibernate - to take advantage of newer and new features in Spring 4.x.
• My pal Adib Saikali's SpringOne2GX 2014 talk on building a rich client backends with Spring is now up
• Don't miss this replay of Spring ninja Greg Turnquist's talk on debugging and maintaining Spring Boot applications
• Dustin Whittle's talk on how to performance testing (Spring) applications is filled with useful tools, tips-and-tricks for…

Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This week, I'm in Barcelona, Spain for the Spring I/O conference.

• Spring Social lead Craig Walls just announced the release of Spring Social Facebook 2.0.1, the first maintenance release in the Spring Social Facebook 2.0 line.
• the good Dr. Syer just published a blog on different ways to bind services in Cloud Foundry
• Spring Security lead Rob Winch just released Spring Security 4.0.1, the first maintenance release in the Spring Security 4.0 line
• This Week's SpringOne2GX Replays are out! Marius Bogoevici shows us how to Build highly modular and testable business systems with Spring Integration, Brian Cavalier talks about Efficient Client-Server Communication with Differential Synchronization and JSON Patch and Topher Bullock and Will Tran review Server-side JavaScript with Nashorn and Spring…

Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This week I'm in Bangalore, India, at the Great Indian Developer Summit. Lots of the Spring Team are at JAXConf in Germany this week as well.

A friendly reminder, if you're in the south west region of Europe, and Barcelona, Spain, specifically, and looking for fun in the sun, I can think of no better option than Spring I/O Conference, which is next week. Don't miss the many great talks from many amazing Spring team and Spring community members. I'll be there and looking forward to meeting and seeing you all!

Without further ado, let's get…

Applications generated more and more data than ever before and a huge part of the challenge - before it can even be analyzed - is accommodating the load in the first place. Apache's Kafka meets this challenge. It was originally designed by LinkedIn and subsequently open-sourced in 2011. The project aims to provide a unified, high-throughput, low-latency platform for handling real-time data feeds. The design is heavily influenced by transaction logs. It is a messaging system, similar to traditional messaging systems like RabbitMQ, ActiveMQ, MQSeries, but it's ideal for log aggregation…

Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! As usual, we've got a lot to discuss so let's get to it!

Last week I was in Paris, France, for Devoxx, FR, and this week I'm in India for the Great Indian Developer Summit and for some meetings ahead of the conference in Bangalore and Hyderabad. If you're in Bombay, Hyderabad, or Bangalore, and want to talk Spring, Cloud Foundry, and big-data, let me know!

In a week and some change, I'll be in Barcelona, Spain, for Spring I/O. If you're in Spain, be sure not to miss this amazing event! I, along with many other members of the Spring team…