Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This week, we're in beautiful Washington DC for the amazing SpringOne2GX 2015!

It's been an amazing event packed with amazing, pivotal moments that saw more than a thousand attendees - including engineers from some of the largest websites in the world - Rakuten, Alibaba, and Netflix, among others - join us here in Washington DC to learn and love what Pivotal is doing with and around Spring.

Here are some of my favorite moments:

• this year saw Pivotal take cloud-native further and faster than anyone and SpringOne2GX has been a huge celebration of this drive: GET CLOUD NATIVE.

• Spring framework lead and co-founder Juergen Hoeller announces Pivotal's crowdfunding support of JUnit during the first keynote.

• Some of you will recall that I had the utter privilege of giving Dr. Rod Johnson, the founder and father of Spring, his first in-depth Spring Boot and Spring Cloud walk throughs a few weeks ago. He loved it!

• So, Spring Boot and Spring Cloud co-founder Dr. Dave Syer and I were doubly pleased to have Rod accept an invitation at this year's SpringOne2GX - his first in five years - to say a few words about how Spring Boot and Spring Cloud connect and further his original vision for Spring before Dave and I spoke at our talk introducing Spring Cloud today at SpringOne2GX! This is my favorite photo, ever. THANK YOU, Dave and Rod.

• some of the Spring big-data dream team at SpringOne2GX: Sabby Anandan, Gary Russell, Mark Fisher, Dr. Mark Pollack, and Thomas Risberg!

• Mark Fisher, yours truly, and Scott Frederick along with Dr. Dave Syer (unpictured) during the day 2 keynote.

Alright, without further ado! Let's get on to this week's roundup!

• Spring XD product manager Sabby Anandan wrote up a very nice blog on Spring Cloud Dataflow
• Spring Integration lead Gary Russell has just announced Spring Integration 4.2 is now available
• Not one to rest on his laurels, Gary also just announced Spring AMQP 1.5.0
• Spring Integration ninja Artem Bilan also just announced that the Spring Integration Java configuration DSL 1.1.M2 is now available
• Andy Wilkinson has just announced that Spring REST Docs 1.0.0.RC1 is now available
• Spring ninja Greg Turnquist just published part two in his series on using React.js and Spring Data REST
• Hüseyin Babal has put together a nice tutorial on building a websocket application using Spring Boot
• John Thompson has written a very detailed look at using an Oracle database from Spring Boot
• The Spring Framework Guru website has a published the fourth installment of a tutorial on building web applications using Spring Boot
• The Spring Framework Guru author also published a nice video on using Spring Boot with Thymeleaf.
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NN_hSBEYBVE
• This Chinese-language post on using Quartz with Spring Boot looks amazing
• Sloths!