Hi Spring fans! We're at the end of another season of Spring Tips. I'll be back in a few months with even more Spring Tips, and we'll continue our journey through aspects of the ecosystem large and small. This season, as with all seasons, has been fun for me to put together. It is a mix of brand new stuff and older stuff that we get to review in a new light. As always, I do these for you and am always eager to hear about what regions of Springdom you'd like illuminated.

Anyway, here's a recap of the things we've looked at in previous installments from seasons 1-4. Enjoy!

Season 1

• Functional Reactive Endpoints with Spring Framework 5.0
• Spring Integration
• The Kotlin Programming Language
• Circuit Breakers
• Spring Aware Beans
• Spring Cloud Stream
• Spring Cloud Data Flow
• Cloud Foundry
• JTA
• Bootiful Dashboards
• Demystifying Bootiful Magic
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On behalf of the Reactor team, I have the pleasure of announcing a first shipment of Reactor goodness this week: Reactor Bismuth-SR10 is out ?

Stay tuned for a Reactor Californium milestone later this week ??‍♂️

Reactor Bismuth-SR10

The latest maintenance BOM of the 3.1.x line, Bismuth-SR10, is out. It includes two new artifacts (click on the version numbers to see the release notes on GitHub):

• reactor-core 3.1.8.RELEASE
• reactor-netty 0.7.8.RELEASE

One update considerations though: Flux.last() used to skip throwing a NoSuchElementException on some category of empty sources (Flux or Mono that are Callable, like Flux.empty()). This is a bug…

Hi Spring fans and welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This week I'm in NYC for the SpringOne Tour NYC event, then it's off to Amsterdam for some customer visits. It's been a wild week in Spring so let's get to it!

• Hi Spring fans! In this installment of Spring Tips we look at the Java Persistence API
• Don't miss this webinar on MongoDB by Spring Data's Christoph Strobl and Mat Keep
• Spring Fu is here and it's awesome! Just check out this example application of the new Kotlin-first microframework for Spring developers. Spring Fu is explicit, not implicit. It's functional, it's fast, it's Spring Fu.
• Don't miss the upcoming Pivotal Paris event with many of the Spring team's local engineers
• Dr. Mark Pollack has just announced Spring Cloud Data Flow 1.5.1
• Dr. Mark Pollack, not one to rest on his laurels, …

speaker: Josh Long

Hi Spring fans! In this installment of Spring Tips we look at the brand new microframework from the Spring team, Spring Fu, which makes short work of building fast, reactive Kotlin-based microservices.

On behalf of the team, I am pleased to announce the availability of Spring Cloud Stream Ditmars.SR4 release train. This is a maintenance release and includes several bug fixes and minor enhancements in core Spring Cloud Stream (1.3.3.RELEASE), Kafka binder (1.3.3.RELEASE), and the Rabbit binder (1.3.4.RELEASE). Please take a look at the release notes for more details. The release can be found in maven central. Detailed descriptions can be found in the reference documentation.

We thank all our community members who contributed valuable additions to this release.

And, as always, we welcome feedback: either in GitHub, on Stack Overflow, on Gitter or on Twitter…

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).

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!

• Pivotal Cloud Foundry now supports Minio, a highly available S3-like HA enterprise grade object storage server for developers.
• Spring Cloud Finchley GA is scheduled for June 15
• In Part 4 of "Should that be a Microservice?" Nate Schutta talks Independent Scalability and why it's important
• Spring Batch ninja Mahmoud Ben Hassine just announced Spring Batch 4.1.0.M1 which includes, among other thing, simplified testing and easier remote chunking. Get the bits now!
• In last week's Spring Tips we looked at JDBC, which is much more than just the venerable JdbcTemplate! In this post we look at the JdbcTemplate, various SQL command objects, SimpleFlatMapper, and so much more. …

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!

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!

• Hi Spring fans! In last week's installment of Spring Tips we look at the Apache Camel enterprise integration framework and its integration with Spring Boot
• Don't miss Spring Cloud Stream lead Oleg Zhurakousky's June 7 webinar on the latest and greatest in Spring Cloud Stream
• Do you really need any more reason to go to SpringOne Platform? Do not miss this compelling invitation from Reactor project lead Stephane Maldini!
• Check out the latest and greatest support in the Cloud Foundry CLI
• Check out the latest in Cloud Foundry's container networking support
• Spring Data ninja and Redis-driver Lettuce maintainer Mark Paluch has a nice …