On the heels of the recently announced Spring Cloud Stream Elmhurst.RELEASE, we are pleased to present another blog installment dedicated to Spring Cloud Stream’s native integration with the Apache Kafka Streams library. Let’s review the new improvements. MessageChannel Binders Spring Cloud Stream framework enables application developers to write event-driven applications that use the strong foundations of Spring Boot and Spring Integration. The underpinning of all these is the binder implementation, which is responsible for communication between the application and the message broker. These…

On behalf of the community, I am happy to announce the release of Spring Cloud Stream Chelsea.SR2. This is the second general availability release in the Chelsea release train, which fixes a number of issues over Chelsea.SR1. The new release is available in Maven Central, and a detailed description of its features can be found in the reference documentation. For information about artifacts and most recent changes, please consult the release notes. What is next: After the release, we will start working on the next Spring Cloud Stream release train, named Ditmars, as well as expand the Spring…