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 …

speaker: Josh Long (@starbuxman)

Hi Spring fans! In this installment we look at the Apache Camel enterprise integration framework, its numerous components, its Java DSL, support for observability, its integration with Spring Boot and the larger Spring ecosystem.

Hi Spring fans! Whew! What a wild week it's been! I landed in Kiev, Ukraine, last Thursday to present at the epic JEEConf in beautiful Kiev. Then, this weekend it was off to Dublin, Ireland and Belfast, North Ireland, where I had the privilege of speaking to some of the amazing Pivotal customers (like Liberty). I concluded today here in Belfast and tomorrow it's off to bella Barcelona, Spain for the Spring I/O conference.

As usual, it's been a crazy awesome week in the Spring community so without further ado let's get to it!

• We now have OIDC Provider Configuration support in Spring Security Master. Awesome!
• Be sure not to miss this webinar on what's new in Spring Cloud Stream, June 7th, from Spring Cloud Stream lead Oleg Zhurakousky
• Over on the Pivotal blog asks: "Should that be a microservice?" and gives six factors to keep in mind when making the call and cut.
• Do you really need any more reason to go to SpringOne Platform? Do not miss this compelling invitation from Reactor project lead Stephane Maldini!
• Visualize and Monitor your Pivotal Cloud Foundry Deployments with Weave Cloud for PCF
• Spring Data JDBC now has support for @Table and @Column…

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It feels like SpringOne Platform was only yesterday, and I'm so excited by what's coming in September! It’s yet another excuse to chat, exchange, share, have a drink, and enjoy quality time with the Spring and Reactor communities, contributors and users alike.

I'll tell you a secret: as the project Reactor lead, this is one of my favorite places to capture amazing feedback and translate it into pull requests. I like spending hours replaying the software history with folks, talking about efficient distributed systems (or "microservices") because--Bingo! Reactive is all about these…

speaker: Josh Long

Hi Spring fans! In this installment of Spring Tips we look at Spring Cloud Function (which lets you write serverless functions that run on your favorite function-as-a-service provider) and Project Riff, the new open-source function-as-a-service platform from Pivotal.

Hi Spring fans and welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! I just returned from a month of travel on Saturday, and on Sunday I was off to Denver, CO, for the epic SpringOne Tour Denver show. Now, I'm off to begin a 10 day tour of Kyiv, Ukraine (JEEConf); Dublin, Ireland and Belfast, Northern Ireland; and Barcelona, Spain (Spring I/O). I hope to see you around! (@starbuxman)

We've got a ton of good stuff to look at today so let's get to it!

• Check out this Micrometer extravaganza webinar from Micrometer lead Jon Schneider
• I love this new guide on building Spring Boot applications with Kotlin
• Do you want to generate Spring REST Docs from Spring Cloud Contract DSLs? Check out how to specify a proper base class here
• Brian McClain has a nice post on speeding software development using build pipelines and Concourse CI
• Christoph Stroble has debuted transaction support in Spring Data MongoDB's reactive module. Take a look!
• Spring Security lead Rob Winch has also debuted the new reactive Spring Security OAuth support in 5.1.0.M1…

For 2 years, we have introduced Kotlin support in Spring projects (Framework, Boot, Data) and published various blog posts, sample projects, slides and documentation. Today, we are publishing an opinionated tutorial intended to summarize in a single place how to build a Spring Boot web application in Kotlin leveraging these features and following best practices: https://spring.io/guides/tutorials/spring-boot-kotlin/

Topics covered are:

• How to create a Spring Boot 2 project in Kotlin
• Understanding the build configuration
• Testing with JUnit 5: integration tests, @WebMvcTest + mocking
• Persistence with JPA and data classes
• Creating your own extensions
• Rendering web pages with Mustache
• HTTP API with @RestController
• Configuration properties
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