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

Spring Tips: JPA

Engineering | June 06, 2018 | ...

speaker: Josh Long

Hi Spring fans! In this installment we look at the Java Persistence API (JPA) and its most ubiquitous implementation Hibernate. We look at basic Spring support for JPA, Spring Boot's auto-configuration and supported configuration properties, mapped superclasses, auditing (using Spring Data's JPA auditing facility) and journaling (using the Hibernate Envers project and Spring Data Envers).

This Week in Spring - June 5th, 2018

Engineering | June 06, 2018 | ...

Hi Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! It's been a wild and wonderful week. I've just returned from the epic VOXXED Singapore event, just intime to enjoy a wonderful week home in Spring-time and sun-filled San Francisco. We've got a ton of things to cover, so let's get to it!

Spring Tips: JDBC

Engineering | May 30, 2018 | ...

speaker: Josh Long

Hi Spring fans! In this installment of Spring Tips we look at the Spring support for the Java Database Connectivity (JDBC) API. Spring's support for JDBC is one of many reasons a lot of people first started using Spring 15+ years ago! If you aren't committed to a full-blown ORM and/or want to leverage the full power of JDBC, then this video is for you!

This Week in Spring - May 29th, 2018

Engineering | May 29, 2018 | ...

Hi Spring fans and welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! I finished last week in Barcelona, Spain, for the epic Spring IO 2018 event (were you there? why not? YOU SHOULD BE IT'S AMAZING!) and now I'm in San Francisco enjoying a restive 48 hours and soon I'll be off to sunny Saint Louis for the epic Spring One Tour St. Louis event starting the 30th then it's off to splendid Singapore for the Voxxed Singapore event. If you're in either region, reach out! I'd love to heard and/or see you!

Anyway, as usual, we've got a ton to cover so let's get to it!

Spring Tips: Apache Camel

Engineering | May 23, 2018 | ...

speaker: Josh Long (@starbuxman)

Hi Spring fans! In this installment we look at the Apache Camel enterprise integration framework, its numerous components, its Java DSL, support for observability, its integration with Spring Boot and the larger Spring ecosystem.

This Week in Spring - May 22nd, 2018

Engineering | May 23, 2018 | ...

Hi Spring fans! Whew! What a wild week it's been! I landed in Kiev, Ukraine, last Thursday to present at the epic JEEConf in beautiful Kiev. Then, this weekend it was off to Dublin, Ireland and Belfast, North Ireland, where I had the privilege of speaking to some of the amazing Pivotal customers (like Liberty). I concluded today here in Belfast and tomorrow it's off to bella Barcelona, Spain for the Spring I/O conference.

As usual, it's been a crazy awesome week in the Spring community so without further ado let's get to it!

This Week in Spring - May 15th, 2018

Engineering | May 15, 2018 | ...

Hi Spring fans and welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! I just returned from a month of travel on Saturday, and on Sunday I was off to Denver, CO, for the epic SpringOne Tour Denver show. Now, I'm off to begin a 10 day tour of Kyiv, Ukraine (JEEConf); Dublin, Ireland and Belfast, Northern Ireland; and Barcelona, Spain (Spring I/O). I hope to see you around! (@starbuxman)

We've got a ton of good stuff to look at today so let's get to it!

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