Spring Boot 1.4 includes a major overhaul of testing support and one of these features is test slicing. I'd like to take the opportunity in this blog post to further explain what it is and how you can easily create your own slices.

Test slicing is about segmenting the ApplicationContext that is created for your test. Typically, if you want to test a controller using MockMvc, surely you don't want to bother with the data layer. Instead you'd probably want to mock the service that your controller uses and validate that all the web-related interaction works as expected. This can be summarized in…

It is my pleasure to announce that Spring Boot 1.3.7 has been released and is available now from repo.spring.io and Maven Central.

This maintenance release includes a number of fixes and 3rd party dependency updates. Stay tuned for more release announcement with Spring Boot 1.4.0.RELEASE coming up next!

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It is my pleasure to announce that the release candidate of Spring Boot 1.4 is available now from the Spring milestone repository. This milestone concludes 6 months of work in the 1.4 line, closing over 140 issues and pull requests! Thanks to everyone that has contributed.

Highlights of the new release include:

• Unified @EntityScan for JPA, MongoDB, Neo4j, Couchbase and Cassandra
• Auto-configured RestTemplateBuilder
• Support for pure rest client tests via @RestClientTest
• Support for Jest (Elasticsearch rest client)
• Upgrades to Spring Integration 4.3, Spring AMQP 1.6, Spring REST Docs 1.1, MongoDB Java Driver 3 and more
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It is my pleasure to announce that the Spring Framework 4.3.1 and 4.2.7 maintenance releases are available now.

The first maintenance release of the 4.3 line contains 40 fixes and improvements and is the base for the upcoming Spring Boot 1.4 release. The master branch has now switched to 5.0 and we'll start merging 5.0 features in preparation for 5.0.0.M1 later this month.

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For more details about Spring Framework 4.3, check Juergen Hoeller's session at SpringOne Platform, which is taking place in Las Vegas between August 1-4 this year. There are many other great talks so check the agenda and get your ticket…

Right after Spring Framework 4.2.7, Spring Boot 1.3.6 has been released and is available now from repo.spring.io and Maven Central.

This maintenance release includes a number of fixes and 3rd party dependency updates.

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Shortly after 1.3.4, we've just released Spring Boot 1.3.5 as we've identified a rather nasty regression with the Spring Integration auto-configuration. The bits are available from repo.spring.io and Maven Central, as usual.

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It is my pleasure to announce that the Spring Framework 4.2.6 and 3.2.17 maintenance releases are available now. We also released the second release candidate of the 4.3 line.

4.3 RC2 contains many refinements and fixes, especially in the web framework area. We are about to finalize 4.3 with a scheduled GA in early June. Preparations towards merging 5.0 features into master will happen right afterwards, with a first 5.0 milestone expected in July.

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Spring Boot 1.3.4 has been released and is available now from repo.spring.io and Maven Central.

This maintenance release includes a number of fixes and 3rd party dependency updates.

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This is a cross-post blog from Simon BASLÉ from Couchbase. You can find him on twitter (@simonbasle) or github. Learn more about Couchbase and the Couchbase Java SDK on the developer portal.

Spring Boot 1.4.0 MILESTONE 2 is out! This is a good time to tell you about the joint effort between Spring Boot team members and the Couchbase Java SDK team to offer a first class integration of Couchbase into Spring Boot :)

In Spring Boot 1.4.0, Couchbase becomes a first class citizen of the Spring Boot ecosystem!

Couchbase SDK Integration

Spring Boot now directly recognizes when you have the Couchbase SDK in your classpath. And when that's the case, it instantiates a Cluster and a Bucket bean for you using autoconfiguration…

Spring Framework 4.3.RC1 is around the corner and brings nice core container refinements which we are going to explore in this post...

Implicit constructor injection for single-constructor scenarios

Consider the following service class:

@Service
public class FooService {

    private final FooRepository repository;

    @Autowired
    public FooService(FooRepository repository) {
        this.repository = repository
    }
}

Quite a common use case but if you forget the @Autowired annotation on the constructor, the container will throw an exception looking for a default constructor, unless you explicitly indicate autowire mode 'constructor' in your bean definition setup (e.g. in an XML <bean>…