Greetings Spring community,

The Spring Web Services team is releasing two version at the same time. 3.0.4.RELEASE as the main branch of development along with 2.4.3.RELEASE for maintenance.

3.0.4.RELEASE comes with a handful of features listed further below. It also comes with new support for Java 11, the next long term supported version of Java.

Java 11 and beyond

Starting in Java 9, several key Java EE packages had their visibility reduced. These included core XML and SOAP-based packages. In Java 11, these packages have been removed altogether. Since Java 11 is the first long term release…

Hi Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! It's the week before SpringOne Platform and things are crazy! We have so much to cover - as usual! - but FIRST! ..some poetry (with apologies to Clement Clark Moore)

'twas the week before SpringOne Platform, when all throughout Spring; Not a creature was stirring, just the computers and things; the expectations were raised by the community with care; in hopes that SpringRod would be there;

That's right! this year is fixing to be AMAZING! We're going to have Spring founder Rod Johnson, Jenny Zhang, Siew Choo Soh, Neha…

With the upcoming Lovelace GA release, we’re going to ship a new Spring Data Module: Spring Data JDBC.

The idea behind Spring Data JDBC is to provide access to relational databases without submitting to the complexities of JPA. JPA offers such features as lazy loading, caching, and dirty tracking. While these are great if you need them, they can actually make thinking about JPA and its behavior harder than it has to be.

Lazy loading might trigger expensive statements when you don’t expect it or it might fail with an exception. Caching can get in your way when you actually want to compare two…

Hi Spring fans! In this brief 8 part series we’re going to look at the Spring Cloud integration for Google Cloud Platform, called Spring Cloud GCP. Spring Cloud GCP represents a joint effort between Google and Pivotal that endeavors to provide a first class experience for Spring Cloud developers when using the Google Cloud Platform. Pivotal Cloud Foundry users will enjoy an even easier integration with the GCP service broker. I wrote these installments with input from Google Cloud Developer Advocate, and my buddy, Ray Tsang. You can also catch a walkthrough of Spring Cloud GCP in our Google…

Hi Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This week I'm in Istanbul, Turkey, talking to customers and participating in the epic SpringOne Platform Istanbul event and otherwise generally preparing for the flagship SpringOne Platform 2018 event in just a few short weeks

• Spring Security lead Josh Cummings just announced Spring Security 5.1.0.RC2. The new release supports a ton of new stuff including a simplified DSL for OAuth 2, WebClient extensions, servlet enhancements, improved resource server support, improved RestTemplate support, support for X.509 and use of environment variables for configuring LDAP.
• Mark Paluch has just announced the packed Spring Data Ingalls SR15 and Spring Data Kay SR10
• Mark Paluch has just announced Spring Vault 2.0.2, which delivers dependency updates and some minor bug fixes
• Mark Paluch just announced the Spring Vault 2.1 release candidate. Spring Vault 2.1 requires JDK 8 or higher and specifically supports JDK 11 as the next long-term support release. This…

Rarely we blog about a single feature, but given that this one was one of the most requested ones in Spring Cloud Function (relatively young project), we thought it may be appropriate, so here it is.

Initial support for Kotlin lambdas has been added to Spring Cloud Function. What it means is that Spring Cloud Function can now recognize Kotlin lambdas that effectively match to one of Java's Supplier, Function or Consumer and treat them as such.

That is:

@Bean
open fun kotlinFunction(): (String) -> String {
    return  { it.toUpperCase() }
}

@Bean
open fun kotlinConsumer(): (String…

Hi Spring fans! In this brief 8 part series we’re going to look at the Spring Cloud integration for Google Cloud Platform, called Spring Cloud GCP. Spring Cloud GCP represents a joint effort between Google and Pivotal that endeavors to provide a first class experience for Spring Cloud developers when using the Google Cloud Platform. Pivotal Cloud Foundry users will enjoy an even easier integration with the GCP service broker. I wrote these installments with input from Google Cloud Developer Advocate, and my buddy, Ray Tsang. You can also catch a walkthrough of Spring Cloud GCP in our Google…

Hi Spring fans! In this brief series we’re going to look at the Spring Cloud integration for Google Cloud Platform, called Spring Cloud GCP. Spring Cloud GCP represents a joint effort between Google and Pivotal that endeavors to provide a first class experience for Spring Cloud developers when using the Google Cloud Platform. Pivotal Cloud Foundry users will enjoy an even easier integration with the GCP service broker. These installments were written with help from Google Cloud Developer Advocate, and my buddy, Ray Tsang. You can also catch a walkthrough of Spring Cloud GCP in our Google Next…

Hi Spring fans and welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! If you're in the US, I hope you enjoyed your Labor Day weekend. I certainly did, gorging on the San Francisco sun and preparing for my O'Reilly online training for tomorrow, Bootiful Kotlin. I'm also busily preparing for the epic SpringOne Tour event in Istanbul, Turkey, customer visits in Atlanta, GA, and of course the epic tentpole SpringOne Platform event coming up later this month in Washington DC. If you're around, I sure hope to see you!

Well, let's get to it!

• In this fifth installment of my series looking at Spring Cloud GCP for Google Cloud, I introduce Google Cloud's support for runtime configuration and how to use it for Spring Cloud applications.
• Spring Data for Apache Geode John Blum has just announced that Spring Boot for Apache Geode & Pivotal GemFire 1.0.0.M2!
• Spring Data for Apache Geode lead John Blum also just announced Spring Session for Apache Geode 2.0.5 and 2.1.0.M1
• Spring Security ninja Josh Cummings just announced the auto-configuration for Spring Security OAuth2 Boot Auto-config, 2.0.4 & 2.1.0.M2.
• Vick Kelkar has a nice post on …