Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This week's roundup could've just as easily been titled, This Week in Spring Videos and Webinars, because we've got a lot of them!

1. The good Dr. Dave Syer continues his series introducing Spring Security and Angular.js integration, this time looking at breaking apart the resource server from the authorization server. This post looks
2. Our pal Nicoalas Frankel is back at it! Nicolas lives in both the Vaadin and the Spring communities. So, naturally, when Petter Holmström and I started the Vaadin4Spring project at the beginning of 2014, we weren't surprised when Nicolas started making great contributions. His latest contribution introduces an elegant implementation of the MVP pattern for Vaadin and he's written a very nice introduction to it…

Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring. We've got a lot to talk about. Our own Pieter Humphrey has been tirelessly working to get the replays of the SpringOne2GX 2014 show available online and there are a slew of them this week! What a win!

• The good Dr. Syer, former lead of Spring Batch, co-lead of Spring Boot, Spring Cloud and Spring Security OAuth, and a rockstar to various Spring projects including Spring itself, over the years, has kicked off a series of posts on very practical matters related to securing Angular.js applications with Spring. The first one, Spring and Angular JS: A Secure Single Page Application, introduces the basics of connecting an Angular.js-based client to a backend API. The second, The Login Page: Angular JS and Spring Security Part II, introduces the login form. Bookmark this series!
• The amazing, sleep-intolerant, Rob Winch has just announced Spring Session 1.0. Spring Session, for those who've not been paying attention, is a drop in proxy API for the standard Servlet HTTP Session API. Install it, and then delegate HTTP session persistence to other backend implementations like Redis. This is ideal for a lot of reasons: if you are using a Java EE application server and want to scale out session replication, you can use an engine that was better designed for it. It's a safe bet that the team behind Cassandra and Redis have thought…

Let's establish some vocabulary, before we begin. When we talk about configuration in Spring, we're usually talking about the inputs into the Spring framework's various ApplicationContext implementations that help the container understand what it is you want done. This might be an XML file to be fed into a ClassPathXmlApplicationContext, or Java classes annotated a certain way to be fed into an AnnotationConfigApplicationContext.

Another type of configuration, as nicely described in the 12-Factor application manifesto, is any of an application's that is likely to vary between deploys (staging…

Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! I hope your holiday and new year was awesome! It's the beginning of a new year (I almost typed "2014"!), and we've got a lot of great stuff coming this year! Let's see what the internet has been doing this last week in the Spring community.

• Our friend Petri Kainulainen is back, and he's completely revamped his Spring Data JPA CRUD tutorial! Check it out! We've linked to it before in this roundup, but it's always worth re-reading!
• I really like this post that looks at introducing multitenancy into an application in terms of a JHipster-based sample.
• Inforworld has an interesting post, Why 2015 will be the year of the micro service
• Our pals in Spain are putting on their Spring IO (the conference) conference again this year! It's…

Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This week, as is our tradition, we'll look back at a few of the big things that made 2014 a wonderful year to be a Spring developer. And, what a year it was!

• The tail end of last year saw Spring 4 GA and this year saw the Spring 4.1 release just shy of 9 short months after 4.0! Spring 4.x boasts a dizzying array of new features! Java 8 support, Java EE 7 support, new Spring MVC views, JSR 107 support, a powerful resource pipeline and the @Conditional annotation which of course made possible...
• Spring Boot, whose first 1.0 GA was in April of this year, has seen two epic updates (1.1, and 1.2) since then. Spring Boot's taken the community by storm, spawning all sorts of activity both from our team and, more importantly, from everybody else! The competition have attempted to downplay it, or copy it. Existing Spring users have flocked to it in droves (including the likes of Netflix and Ticketmaster). If you follow this weekly roundup, though, then you need no further evidence of the community's uptake! It's been so much fun watching people blog…

Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! In a few short weeks we'll be in 2015! Will that be exciting? Of course. But this week's pretty exciting as well! So much good stuff this week.

• Spring Boot 1.2.0 is here! So many new features for Java EE (Servlet 3.1-baseline, JTA, JMS and JNDI support) and improved Jackson output, Actuator endpoints, CLI updates and performance. Spring Cloud is already tracking 1.2 and will be based on this soon, as well. Get the bits.

• Spring Boot 1.1.10 is now available with numerous fixes.

• Resident mad-scientist Andy Wilkinson just announced the latest cut of the Spring IO platform library. There are lots of things of note, but in particular it's added support for Spring Integration Flow 1.0, Spring Integration Java DSL 1.0, and Spring Integration Splunk 1.1 and updated revisions for several projects besides.

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Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! In a few short weeks we'll be in 2015! Will that be exciting? Of course. But this week's pretty exciting as well! So much good stuff this week.

• Spring Boot 1.2.0 is here! So many new features for Java EE (Servlet 3.1-baseline, JTA, JMS and JNDI support) and improved Jackson output, Actuator endpoints, CLI updates and performance. Spring Cloud is already tracking 1.2 and will be based on this soon, as well. Get the bits.

• Spring Boot 1.1.10 is now available with numerous fixes.

• Resident mad-scientist Andy Wilkinson just announced the latest cut of the Spring IO platform library. There are lots of things of note, but in particular it's added support for Spring Integration Flow 1.0, Spring Integration Java DSL 1.0, and Spring Integration Splunk 1.1 and updated revisions for several projects besides.

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Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This week I'm at the Rich Web Experience in Ft. Lauderdale, FL, joining my pal Matt Stine for a workshop on building microservices with Spring Boot, Spring Cloud and Cloud Foundry.

So, without further ado, let's get to it:

• Dr. Dave Syer just announced the M3 release of Spring Cloud, complete with loads of cool stuff, including a smarter Ribbon-enabled load-balancing RestTemplate, a RabbitMQ-based aggregator for Hystrix Metrics based on Turbine 2, Spring Cloud for AWS support, and much more
• Spring ninja Sebastien Deleuze just announced some of the amazing new features in Spring's Jackson support. My favorite? JSON + XML marshalling with dynamic views. Views are a logical subset of attributes from a JSON structure that may be rendered dynamically.
• Check out Spring Roo 1.3.1 and includes bug-fixes for reverse engineering and third party addon installations. Thanks, community and Disid in particular for the updates!
• Spring and Groovy & Grails Tool Suite lead Martin Lippert just announced versions 3.6.3. The new release includes updated Spring Integration visualizations, a installed-by-default Cloud Foundry plugin and more. Check it out!
• Want to learn about the Spring Integration Java configuration DSL in terms of a working, line-by-line example? Check out this post by Java configuration DSL lead Artem Bilan and if you want to see how it works on JDK 7 or earlier, check out this post.
• Spring Data lead Oliver Gierke just announced the first milestone of the next Spring Data release train, Spring Data Fowler.
• The replay from the good Dr. David Syer's SpringOne2GX 2014 talk on security for microservices is now available online.
• Additionally, check out Dr. Syer and Spencer Gibb's talk introducing Spring Cloud to the world at SpringOne2GX 2014!
• Check out the SpringOne2GX 2014 replay of Reactor project ninjas Jon Brisbin and Stephane Maldini's talk: Building Reactive applications with Reactor and the Reactive Streams standard
• Join Spring Integration project-lead Gary Russell for a not-to-be-missed webinar on January 27th that introduces the just-released Spring Integration Java configuration DSL!
• You know what they say: go grid or go home! Or something like that…​ anyway, definitely check out my pal Luke Shannon's upcoming webinar on building scalable data applications with Spring Data Gemfire
• Adao Feliz put together a nice post on using Spring Boot and Docker. It's pretty straightforward, so check it out!
• The All and Sundry blog has a nice post on how to consume linked resources using Spring's RestTemplate.
• Check out the early bits for the next-gen Cloud Foundry built from the ground up on the Go language and supports Docker as a first-class citizen. If you know how to use Vagrant, it's dead simple to get a full working Cloud Foundry cloud running on your laptop if you follow these instructions. Do try it out and let us know!

Egads! Can you believe it's already almost the end of the year? Time has been screaming fast! It's the week of Thanksgiving for those of us in the United States. This is a wonderful time of year to sit back, find a nice Spring IO guide or blog to read, and then build something awesome.. oh, and it's an ideal time to spend in the company of friends and family and to reflect on those and that for which we're grateful. I'm sure I speak for the Spring team and Pivotal at large when I say that we're grateful for you, our inspiring community, users and customers.

But if you do want something to read…

In this blog, I want to look at - and demonstrate - some of the many new features in Spring Boot 1.2 that make the lives of those coming from, or otherwise building on, Java EE easier.

It's worth mentioning that a lot of this support has been possible with Spring before, of course, but now with Spring Boot 1.2, it's just so darned easy!

First, here's an example program with notes after.

package demo;

import org.glassfish.jersey.jackson.JacksonFeature;
import org.glassfish.jersey.server.ResourceConfig;
import org.springframework.boot.SpringApplication;
import org.springframework.boot…