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 - August 21, 2012

Engineering | August 21, 2012 | ...
The video from VMWare engineer Jerry Kuch's webinar providing an update on the new features in RabbitMQ is also available. Finally, the video from the webinar that Ken Rimple, Srini Penchikala, and I did introducing how to more fully exploit Spring Roo's interactive add-on mechanism is available.

This Week in Spring, August 14th, 2012

Engineering | August 15, 2012 | ...
Remember, child contexts provide scoping - beans defined in one child can't see beans defined in another. This makes it very useful for things like Spring Batch Admin, which lets you upload and launch new Spring Batch jobs (which themselves are based on Spring configuration) on the fly. The Java Assist blog has a nice post on using Spring MVC bean validation in 3.0 or later. Cool! The Intelligrape blog has a quick post about using Grails' support for Spring beans, and exploiting Spring's lifecycle callbacks, particularly InitializingBean#afterPropertiesSet.

This Week in Spring - July 31, 2012

Engineering | August 01, 2012 | ...
This week I'm in Bangalore, India with other members of the SpringSource and Cloud Foundry teams talking to major system integrators about Spring and Cloud Foundry. The uptake's amazing, and the feedback is even better. The new release features lots of new extension points in the Authorization Server features, a Whitelabel UI for better out-of-box experience, and improved support for expressions in security filters. Check it out! set the Locale of internationalized messages through an HTTP request.

This Week in Spring - July 10th, 2012

Engineering | July 11, 2012 | ...
Did you guys miss JAX, in San Francisco, this week? The talks that Chris Richardson and I have, and will, give are going to be online next week, but this week you should check out the presentation on using Spring MVC and Backbone.js together by Sebastiano Armeli-Battana, a community member who also spoke this week. Nice job, Sebastiano! Also: be sure to check out the code!

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