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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

The Maven Dependency Dance with Spring Android, Spring Social and Spring Security

Engineering | September 17, 2013 | ...

Roy Clarkson (@royclarkson) and I gave a talk at SpringOne2GX 2013 in which we talked about building REST services with an eye towards consuming those services on mobile platforms like Android and iOS. This talk demonstrates the progressive evolution of an application using Spring MVC, Spring HATEOAS, Spring Data REST, Spring Security, Spring Security OAuth, and Spring Android. The code's benefited from a lot of help from Rob Winch,

Layout of the Code

The code for the talk is on my GitHub account (github.com/joshlong/the-spring-rest-stack). Importantly, the code lives in the code directory. Beneath that there are two choices: web (where you'll find the rest, hateoas, hateoas-data, and oauth, social modules) and client (where you can load the Android module and the iOS module). The modules in the web folder in respective order, demonstrate the evolution of a simple REST service which incorporates hypermedia, Spring Data repositories and OAuth security. The social…

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This Week in Spring - September 17, 2013

Engineering | September 17, 2013 | ...

This Week in Spring

Welcome back to another installment of This Week in Spring! I'm still reeling from last week. If you were there, you know what I mean, if not, then look forward to the videos coming out over the coming months. There's so much stuff to see.

For those of you who were at the show and sought me out because of This Week in Spring, it was really great to meet you all!

The world keeps on spinning of course, so let's look at some of what's happened this last week.

  1. Jennifer Hickey has announced that Spring Data Redis 1.1 has been released. The new release provides support for pipelining, data type conversion, and a modified API for adding or removing multiple List, Set, and Hash elements all in one call. Great stuff, check it out!
  2. AspectJ, Scala, Cloud Foundry, and Spring framework ninja Ramnivas Laddad has just announced the first cut of the Spring Cloud project, which in turn is a revolutionary API that takes the cloudfoundry-runtime library previously used with Cloud Foundry applications to the next level, opening the doors for support of multiple providers. Nice job, Ramnivas! And, dear community, if you want to see more, now's the time to check out the code and sound off!
  3. Over on the @GoPivotal blog, Stacey Schneider has put together a very nice post on her experiences at her first SpringOne2GX last week. Great read, and I echo her sentiments, even though this was not my first SpringOne2gx! :)
  4. Didn't get enough Data-love last week? Spring Data ninja Oliver Gierke just announced the latest cuts of two community modules: the first milestone of Spring Data Couchbase lead by Michael Nitschinger and the 1.0 GA of Spring Data Solr lead by Christoph Strobl.
  5. I put together a blog that introduces some of the things required to make the Spring Social binding that Roy Clarkson and I demonstrated last week at SpringOne2GX work with Spring Android, specifically as concerns the loading of certain classes in Spring core, Spring Security and Spring HATEOAS. Check it out!
  6. Groovy/Grails, and Spring, Tool Suite ninja Martin Lippert has just announced the latest iteration of STS and GGTS, versions 3.4.0.M1, has been released!
  7. Our pal Tobias Flohre is at it again, this time with two great SpringOne2GX wrapup posts. The first looks at some of the Spring XD, Batch and Hadoop technologies demonstrated, and the second looks at Spring Boot and the Spring IO platform.
  8. Rossen Stoyanchev, the genius behind the websockets support in Spring 4, has put together an amazing slate of demos using WebSockets and STOMP (which you can work with from RabbbitMQ!) and he showed these demos off last week at SpringOne2GX 2013 to wide acclaim. Nice job! If you missed it last week, at least check out the code, now.
  9. The Ippon.fr blog has a nice (French-language!) interview with my pal Eric Bottard, a (French-speaking) developer on Spring XD. Good read!
  10. The fine folks over at IntelliGrape have put together a nice roundup of their favorite talks from SpringOne2GX on day 2. Check it out!
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This Week in Spring - September 10, 2013 - SpringOne2GX 2013 Edition

Engineering | September 10, 2013 | ...

Welcome to This Week in Spring, SpringOne2GX 2013 edition!

We're now in day 2 of the SpringOne2GX 2013 conference in Santa Clara, CA! Yesterday's keynote saw a lot of new exciting new announcements and introductions and I'll discuss some of those here, and then have subsequent coverage for the balance of the week.

Here, of course, is your abridged look at all that's glitters in the Spring community and (hurrayy!!) at SpringOne2GX 2013! With no exaggeration, this is the most exciting SpringOne2GX to date.

Some of the amazing Spring project leads at SpringOne2GX 2012

One of the things I most like about SpringOne2GX is the access it affords attendees to the brains behind the awesome. After tonight's keynote dinner a few of the project leads lingered a few minutes and took this impromptu photo for me. Spring core lead Juergen Hoeller is front-center, in the blue shirt. For what it's worth, Juergen doesn't actually tweet (the account is a placeholder!), which makes the opportunity to chat with him at SpringOne even more amazing! Going counter-clockwise, starting after Juergen, you then have Spring Security lead Rob Winch, Spring Mobile and Spring Android…

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This Week in Spring - Sept 3rd, 2013

Engineering | September 03, 2013 | ...

Welcome to This Week in Spring! SpringOne is almost upon us! It kicks off this weekend with the Cloud Foundry Platform event and continues on until next Thursday. I, personally, am very excited (and a bit nervous!) about this year's show. It's going to be so epic. Yesterday may have been a holiday here in the US (I hope you all enjoyed a wonderful holiday!), but most of us on the Spring team were working fast and furiously in preparation for SpringOne2GX!

My Road to SpringOne2GX 2013 the SpringOne2GX 2013 agenda looks soo good! I'm into a lot of different things like the open web (REST-powered architectures), big data, the cloud, and security and - at SpringOne - there's no reason I can't get my fill of each topic! Here are just some of the talks that I would love to see when I'm there.

  • Tackling Big Data Complexity with Spring with Mark Fisher and Mark Pollack. Does this one need any introduction? Spring XD leads Mark Pollack (Spring core contributor, Spring AMQP co-founder, Spring.NET founder, Spring Data and Spring Data for Hadoop lead) and Mark Fisher (Spring core contributor, Spring Integration founder, Spring AMQP co-founder) will introduce Spring XD, the most powerful way to build big data-centric applications today.
  • Build Your Very Own Private Cloud Foundry with the amazing Matt Stine. Matt's going to introduce how to setup your own on-premises Cloud Foundry instance using BOSH. Matt's a great speaker, a fantastic technologist, and I can't wait to see this talk.
  • Distributed rules engines and CEP with John Davies. John's the CEO of C24, and has got some incredible enterprise integration war-stories. The man's an epic speaker, too.
  • RabbitMQ is the new King with Jan Machacek and RabbitMQ Developer Advocate Alvaro Videla. Jan's a longtime Spring-guru and distributed systems guy, and Alvaro's the Pivotal RabbitMQ developer advocate (in the same way that I'm the Pivotal Spring developer advocate…). They're both sensational and I expect this one will be a wonderful talk.
  • Your Data, Your Search, Elasticsearch with Costin Leau. Costin worked on, among many things, the original Spring Cache integration with Spring core, Spring Data GemFire, Spring Data itself, the OSGi support in Spring DM server (years ago), and a lot more. He's now working with Elasticsearch, and I can't wait to hear his perspective. Costin's really good at taking complex topics and distilling their essences.

I have four presentations (with amazing co-presenters!) this year. Andy Piper and I will present on building Spring and Cloud Foundry-powered applications. Roy Clarkson and I will present on using Spring and REST to connect applications, Kevin Nilson and I will present on using Spring and profiles to build applications that adapt and Phil Webb and I will present on how to improve your Java configuration muscle memory.

I look forward to seeing you guys at SpringOne2GX! Ping me on Twitter (@starbuxman) if you're around and let's talk Spring!

And now, on to this Week's Roundup! Hopefully, this will sate your appetites until SpringOne2GX! :)

  1. Spring Scala lead Arjen Poutsma has just released Spring Scala 1.0.0.RC1. The new release is the first release candidate in the release cycle, towards a 1.0 release, so definitely check it out!
  2. Join our friends from Pivotal Labs as David Frank shows you How to Get Agile with Pivotal Tracker, on September 5th.
  3. Join Phil Webb as he dives into the one of the newest, hottest projects in Spring - Spring Boot on September 26th.
  4. Jan Stenberg put together a nice post on Russ Miles' Life Preserver pattern as used with Spring. The post is a little light on code, but you can check out the original presentation to get the details!
  5. The JavaBeat blog has a really detailed post on how to use Spring's @Tranactional annotation.
  6. Eugen Dvorkin has a nice post on how to use Storm, Groovy, a CEP engine and Spring together. This is really cool, although there's not a lot of code. I also wonder if this could've been done in a simpler way using Spring XD, though.
  7. Spring web-ninja Arjen Poutsma, and author of the original RestTemplate, has been hard at work on an asynchronous RestTemplate to be included in Spring 4. Looking awesome.
  8. Luis Miguel Gracia Luis has put together a nice post that introduces some of the great new stuff coming for Spring developers since the Spring team became part of Pivotal, including Spring XD, Spring Boot, Spring Loaded and Spring REST Shell. The post is Spanish language, but Google Translate does a fairly good job.
  9. Rajkumar Singh has put together a nice post - Apache Hadoop and Spring Data : Configuring mapreduce Job - that introduces Spring for Apache Hadoop. Great post!
  10. The Bluesoft blog has the second post in a series on using Angular.js with Spring MVC to build a login dialog. This is getting good…
  11. The Technicalpractical blog has a post, Display Model As JSON or XML using Spring. The post does a fine job introducing how to put together a JSON view using Spring MVC 2.5-era APIs, but I hope you'll check out some more recent introductions to building JSON-centric REST services with Spring. Here's a (much) simpler example.
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This Week in Spring - Aug 27th, 2013

Engineering | August 27, 2013 | ...

Welcome back to another installment of This Week in Spring. We have a lot to cover, as usual! Spring Security and lead Rob Winch feature heavily in this week's roundup! So, cheers to Rob Winch!

  1. Spring Security lead Rob Winch put together a post introducing some of the new, smart and convenient protection in Spring Security against cross-site request forgery (or CSRF).
  2. Rob also put together another epic blog post that demonstrates some of Spring Security's new support for security headers.
  3. Rob was also kind enough to integrate these new features into the Spring REST stack codebase where you can see them in action in the context of a full-stack, integrated Spring REST service. To see these changes, along with Spring Security and Spring Security OAuth, all integrated using Java Configuration, check out the oauth module.
  4. Reactor lead Jonathan Brisbin has announced Reactor 1.0.0.M2 is now available. The new release looks very exciting! From Jon's writeup: "This 2nd milestone includes a number of bugfixes and some really exciting new features. Reactor now includes a Processor abstraction, which is a highly-optimized task processor based on the LMAX Disruptor RingBuffer… Anecdotal benchmarks on a MacBook Pro show the Processor can pump around 100,000,000 events per second through the pipeline. Yes, you read that right: 100 million per second!"
  5. Hyperic, Cloud Foundry, Spring and Spring Data ninja Jennifer Hickey has announced the latest cut of the Spring Data Redis project. The new release includes support for millisecond precision in key expiration commands, resubscription of message listeners on connection failure, a full implementation of ConcurrentMap contract in RedisMap and RedisProperties
  6. Spring Batch lead Michael Minella has announced Spring Batch 3.0M1 has been released! This release marks the first steps towards implementing the JSR-352 Java Batch specification, among other things.
  7. Register now for the Aug 29th Webinar: Taming Coupling & Cohesive Beasts with Modularity Patterns and Spring with Param Rengaiah.
  8. Join our friends from Pivotal Labs as David Frank shows you How to Get Agile with Pivotal Tracker, on September 5th.
  9. Spring Security lead Rob Winch tweeted, "#Gradle made it dead simple to build #SpringSecurity with #SpringFramework 3 and run tests with both #Spring 3/4," and linked to this epic example. This isn't strictly speaking Spring related post, but it's a nice example of a really elegant Gradle build, for those who also work with it, as we do at SpringSource.
  10. Spring Security lead Rob Winch (boy, that guy sure gets around!) also announced the latest release of Spring Security LDAP.
  11. Our pal Xavier Padró is back, this time with a post introducing how to use resource-local JMS transactions on message receipt with Spring's JmsTemplate.
  12. Patrick Grimard's put together a nice post on integrating Yeoman Backbone with a Spring web application, as well as a way to sidestep some issues he was having with resource resolution by using Tuckey’s UrlRewriteFilter. Now, I like the UrlRewriteFilter. That said, I think (but haven't tested..) that Patrick could've accomplished the same thing using Spring MVC resource handling support, as he starts to do in an example in the code when overriding the public void addResourceHandlers(ResourceHandlerRegistry registry) configuration method. Perhaps I'm mistaken, and either way, cool post!
  13. SpringSource has released new trainings to the Q3 schedule, check out the training schedules for: Core Spring, Enterprise Integration with Spring and Spring Web.
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This Week in Spring - Aug 13th, 2013

Engineering | August 14, 2013 | ...

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

  1. The How to do in Java blog has a nice post on how to setup Siteminder pre-authentication using Spring Security 3.
  2. Another great SpringOne2GX 2013 session's just been added to the SpringOne2GX 2013 lineup, Real Time Analytics with Spring. This talk introduces one use case for Project Reactor, a foundation for asynchronous applications on the JVM.
  3. Andy Clement has just cut a new release of AspectJ, 1.8.0.M1, which will be used in Spring 4 and support Java 8. It is available through the SpringSource Maven repository as 1.8.0.M1. It is also in today's release of AJDT for Eclipse 4.3.
  4. The GoPivotal blog has an in-depth look at Apache Tomcat 8. Definitely worth a look!
  5. Eberhard Wolff has put together a very nice video on using the recently announced Spring Boot. Nice job, Eberhard! (as usual)
  6. Our pal Petri Kainulainen has written a very cool post on unit testing Spring MVC REST APIs.
  7. The Being Java Guys blog has a code-heavy post on how to do file uploads with Spring MVC. Nice job!
  8. This post from the Matthew's Thoughts! blog explains a simple Spring REST starter project that demonstrates how to use regular Spring Security to add a username and password-based authentication with a Spring MVC-powered REST service.
  9. The Code with Zen Mind blog has a nice series on building and testing Spring MVC applications. The first post introduces how to setup a test-driven project. The second post demonstrates how to do refactoring and how to introduce new test cases. The third post demonstrates how to use the tests established in the first two posts to survice a major refactoring (the implementation of the service under test changes). Really insightful!
  10. This post from the public static void blog() blog introduces how Spring's logging layering works. The post is in what Google Translate insists is Slovak, however, the translation was pretty good and - if we're honest - the diagrams are quite explanatory by themselves! Good stuff. Take a look, and - if possible - a read.
  11. The 1.5 version of the Cloud Foundry integration for Eclipse, which supports pushing applications to Pivotal Cloud Foundry organizations and spaces, using new Cloud Foundry services, and incrementally updating applications from Spring Tool Suite. The new integration may be installed from the STS dashboard or using the update site in the Help > Install New Software menu.
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This Week in Spring - Aug 6th, 2013

Engineering | August 07, 2013 | ...

Welcome back to another installment of This Week in Spring. On August 1, I celebrated my third year at SpringSource. I continue to enjoy the ride of my life and a huge part of that is my interaction with you, the most amazing community ever. Thanks for that, folks.

Have you booked your tickets for SpringOne2GX? This year's show is a special one. In my work as the Spring Developer Advocate, I speak at many conferences all around the world. Ask any developer with a pulse, and they'll confirm that big data (and Hadoop), reactive web applications, REST, mobile application development, and cloud computing are sizzling hot topics today. Pivotal, and Spring, support today's developers, and SpringOne2GX's agenda represents in my estimation the perfect blend of content for today's developers. Check out the agenda. We've just recently added talks on big data, and REST service security with OAuth. This will be our first show under Pivotal, and it's the only place where you can talk to the developers working on the technologies you care about both at SpringSource and in the community. As you know, we've just announced our Cloud Foundry conference, Platform, and SpringOne2GX full pass ticket holders may register for that show - which is at the same venue as SpringOne2GX just two days earlier - for free! If I had to pay for just one show a year, this would be that show. Hurry the early bird rate expires this friday!

  1. Major news: Phil Webb and Dr. David Syer have just announced Spring Boot, which simplifies Spring application development. Spring Boot provides an opinionated layer on top of Spring and in so doing makes it dead simple to get an application up and running with a minimum of fuss. Seriously, this stuff will blow your mind. Do not read any further until you've read this short and sweet post! Give it a go and be sure to let us know about your experiences!
  2. Spring Framework 3.2.4 maintenance release is now available, with an important security fix for SpringOXM..
  3. Spring Data Redis-lead and ninja Jennifer Hickey just announced the availability of two Spring Data releases. Spring Data Redis 1.1, M2, featuring a lot of new features, including enhanced data pipelining, Redis 2.6 scripting, and more. Spring Data Redis 1.0.6 is also available, and features bug fixes and smaller improvements.
  4. Spring Mobile and Android lead Roy Clarkson just announced Spring Mobile 1.1.0.RC1, which features improvements to device detection and view resolution in Spring Mobile. Roy also announced a new cut of the stable line of Spring Mobile, 1.0.2, which features similar improvements, some backported.
  5. Spring Data ninja Oliver Gierke has just announced that the final release candidate for Spring Data Babbage is now available. This release is named for Charles Babbage. This release features support for the MongoDB Aggregation Framework and improved the execution of polymorphic queries, support to use SpEL expressions in manually defined queries with JPA, improved handling of entities using @IdClass, a countBy(..) method for Neo4j repositories, and much more.
  6. The replay for the webinars Functional Programming without Lamba and Spring with Cucumber for Automation are now available online. Be sure to check them out!
  7. A few weeks ago, our friend Johnathan Mark Smith put together a video introducing how to use Spring Data MongoDB and Java configuration. Check it out! And, if you're doing awesome videos, feel free to share. I'd love to post them on This Week in Spring, too!
  8. I smiled when I saw a tweet by the Reactor project lead Jonathan Brisbin in which he says, "Processor throughput: 90M ops/sec on a laptop. 1 thread + @LMAX Disruptor. Not #fastdata, #uberfastdata" and then links to a test case in the code. Needless to say, Reactor is going to shake things up big time! (And, of course, we'll have more content on Reactor at SpringOne2GX.
  9. The latest release of Tomcat, Apache Tomcat 8.0.0-RC1 (alpha), is now available! There are a lot of new features. Notably, Tomcat 8 will be the first Tomcat to support JSR 356, web sockets. This is the perfect compliment to Spring 4's recently announced web socket support.
  10. Mohan Srihari Kantipudi has put together a nice post on Spring's basic REST capabilities
  11. I liked Gregor Riegler's post on Spring Loaded, the best kept secret in open source. Spring Loaded is a Java agent that lets you reload code as you're working on it (no need to redeploy!). This is a very cool post and I hope you'll consider using Spring Loaded, too.
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This Week in Spring - July 30, 2013

Engineering | July 31, 2013 | ...

Welcome back to another installment of This Week in Spring! As usual, we've got a lot to cover so let's get to it. Don't forget that SpringOne 2GX 2013 early bird expires August 9th, so hurry to secure the discounted rate!

  1. Spring framework committer Rossen Stoyanchev has a great post on Spring Framework 4.0 M2's support for WebSocket Messaging Architectures.
  2. Spring Shell lead Dr. Mark Pollack has announced that Spring Shell 1.0.1.M1 has just been released.
  3. Spring Batch 2.2.1.RELEASE is now available. This release is mostly bug fixes and documentation improvements.
  4. I don't know if you've been following along, but we're starting to really flesh out the SpringOne2GX 2013 schedule! I'm looking forward to both seeing, and presenting, at many different talks this year. One talk I'd like to see is Thymeleaf: improving your Spring view layer with natural templates. I expect this year will be a very exciting year for a number of reasons, and I hope you'll share the experience with us.
  5. We've added some more SpringOne talks recently:
  6. Our pal Tobias Flohre has put together a nice post comparing how the JSR 352 API compares to the Spring Batch. Spring Batch 3.0 will be fully JSR 352 API compliant this fall by SpringOne, but was the inspiration for the JSR in the first place -- Spring Batch 1.0 was released in 2008 and has been gathering steam ever since.
  7. Want to learn more about Spring Scala? Watch Spring Scala lead talk about it at ScalaDays New York.
  8. As I mentioned last week, you'd do well to also follow This Week in Cloud Foundry, which has a lot of great content following last week's large announcement of a partnership between Pivotal and IBM.
  9. The Reactor project lead by John Brisbin has just announced support for a @EnableReactor annotation for Spring Java configuration.
  10. ..Speaking of Thymeleaf (the open source, Spring MVC, HTML5 and Tiles-friendly view and templating engine), version 2.1 will have parameterizable fragments. Do you want to test them? Try the 2.1.0-SNAPSHOT version when specifying your Maven repository-compatible coordinates.
  11. Our friend Johnathan Mark Smith is at it again, this time with a video on using Spring Data MongoDB. Definitely worth a look.
  12. Check out a webinar next month taming coupling & cohesive problems with modularity and Spring with Param Rengaiah.
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This Week in Spring - July 23, 2013

Engineering | July 24, 2013 | ...

Hey everyone! Remember that SpringOne 2GX 2013 early bird expires August 9th, so hurry to secure the discounted rate! Also, make sure to check the agenda as new sessions have been added. This week I'm at OSCON talking to developers in the wonderful city of Portland, OR about Spring 4, REST and joining my colleagues at Pivotal to talk about Cloud Foundry, big data, and much more! If you'd like to chat, I hope you'll come to the talks that we're putting on and visit us at the Pivotal booth in the exhibition hall! It's been a big week for both Spring and Pivotal:

  1. Pivotal HD 1.0, the world's fastest Hadoop distribution, was released in two flavors - Community Edition, and a Pivotal Single Node Edition (VM), a Virtual Machine download. Head over to gopivotal.com and give it a test drive - Community Edition deploys up to a 50 node cluster!
  2. We're celebrating Project Reactor's initial milestone release - 1.0.0M1 - which already benchmarked TCP on Netty at 300% faster than Netty alone! When integrated into key Spring technologies, the possibilities of Fast Data are going to blow people's hair back. Congrats to Jon Brisbin!
  3. Spring Data Arora Service Release 2 is available for download.
  4. Martin Lippert published an excellent blog on Annotations and Java Config support that are available in Spring Tool Suite 3.3.0. Support of JavaConfig as an XML alternative across the Spring ecosystem is nearing a pervasive level.
  5. Join Hemant Joshi as he introduces how to use Spring and the Cucumber BDD testing framework in a webinar on July 30th, 2013.
  6. Hadoop hungry? Join us for a Webinar series -- “What You Can Do with Hadoop” on the first Thursday of every month. The first webinar on August 1st, 2013 will provide in-depth details about the features and tutorials included in the Pivotal HD Single Node (VM).
  7. My buddy Andy Piper (@andypiper) puts together a wonderful roundup of Cloud Foundry called This Week in Cloud Foundry. I can't recommend it enough! He just started, and he's doing a heckuva job!
  8. The Zenika blog has a very nice post on how to document a REST API with Swagger, which you can transparently layer on top of your Spring MVC API.
  9. Matt Stine also has a great post on Spring, Continuous Integration and CloudFoundry.
  10. The JavaCode Geeks blog has a nice post on how to add validation to a REST API
  11. The Pivotal blog has a really great post on how Tomcat compares to Pivotal's tcServer, a binary-compatible distribution of Tomcat that we support and augment for deployment
  12. Also on the Pivotal blog, a fantastic post on how Spring Data GemFire (and GemFire) can really boost your application's performance!
  13. Xavier Padró's has a really nice introduction to messaging with Spring
  14. This week at OSCON, I found affixed to all the bulletin boards and on the entry-doors into the conference a notice advertising a hackathon being run by inBloom, which is a nonprofit data and content services company working to support school districts as they implement great personalized learning tools for kids, teachers, and parents. inBloom is sponsoring a 2-day hackathon at OSCON to work on their open source content services. Check out the projects and the code! I really enjoyed meeting these fine people and encourage any Spring ninjas out there to raise your hands and contribute!
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This Week in Spring - July 15, 2013

Engineering | July 16, 2013 | ...

Welcome back to another installation of This Week in Spring. We've got a lot to cover, as usual, so let's get right to it! This week I'm at SenchaCon, talking to developers about building RESTful applications and clients, and then I'm off to OSCON next week, where I'll be hosting the Spring BOF, giving a talk on the latest and greatest in Spring 4, and helping to man the Pivotal booth. If you're at SenchaCon or OSCON, don't hesitate to ping me and we can talk Spring, Cloud Foundry, big-data, and more!

  1. SpringOne 2GX 2013 early bird expires soon, register now to secure the discounted rate!
  2. Spring Data ninja Thomas Risberg has announced that Spring For Apache Hadoop 1.0.1.RC1 has been released. The new release supports Hadoop 2.0 and Pivotal HD, among other things.
  3. Tool Suite ninja and lead Martin Lippert has announced that Spring Tool Suite And Groovy/Grails Tool Suite 3.3.0 have been released. Very nice!
  4. Gary Russell has announced that Spring AMQP 1.2.0 has been released. Check out the What's New for details.
  5. Join Mattias Severson & Johan Haleby and learn about Functional Programming without Lambdas on July 18, 2013
  6. Join Hemant Joshi as he introduces how to use Spring and the Cucumber BDD testing framework in a webinar on July 30th, 2013.
  7. Our friends at Skills Matter are throwing a Spring-centric conference (the Spring Exchange) in London on November 14 and November 15. There are some killer speakers, and I highly encourage you to make it, if you can.
  8. Are you using Spring Social in the wild? We want to hear about it!
  9. Spring Security lead and ninja Rob Winch has put together a very nice post on readability when using Spring Security Java configuration.
  10. A new "Quick Search" is included in Spring ToolSuite (STS) 3.3.0 and Groovy Grails Tool Suite (GGTS) 3.3.0 which have just been released. Kris De Volder, a senior developer on the Spring and Groovy and Grails Tool Suites, has just put together a nice post on this new feature.
  11. Our friend Johnathan Mark Smith is at it again! This time, he's written a post, How to use Fongo and nosql unit to test Spring Data project with MongoDB, JUnit, Log4J. Check it out!
  12. Wow! Amir Kibbar, at the HP Software Developer's blog, has put together a really comprehensive look at how to develop a service tier, build a web tier, and then test both. The first post on setting up a service tier, the second is an example of refining the service tier and testing it, the third post introduces how to setup a REST endpoint, and the fourth post talks about testing the REST service. Definitely worth a read (and a bookmark!) It's possible to do everything demonstrated in these posts using straight Java configuration, also…
  13. Igor Artamonov has a nice, abbreviated post on how to build a RESTful endpoint with Spring.
  14. Our friend at the Baeldung blog has put together a very nice post on how to use digest authentication with Spring Security.
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