Hi Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week In Spring. This week I'm in Los Angeles (warm!) talking to customers and then it's off to Chicago (not warm!). There's so much good stuff to cover this week so let's get to it!

• In PCF 2.0, the application runtime is now joined by an enterprise-grade Kubernetes service, called Pivotal Container Service, and a new Functions-as-a-Service offering, Pivotal Function Service. Pivotal's Jared Ruckle joins Jeff and Dormain for a look at PCF 2.0 in this new podcast
• Spring Cloud Sleuth now integrates with Brave and it's an exciting time for distributed tracing.
• Spring Cloud Vault lead Mark Paluch has integrated Spring Security with Spring Cloud Vault
• It's been a busy wek for the Spring Cloud Sleuth team! This commit makes Spring Cloud Sleuth OpenTracing-compatible
• Support for integrating Micrometer (think SLF4J, but for metrics) with Jersey 2 (a JAX-RS implementation) has just landed…

Aloha! This week I'm in sunny Honolulu for the first annual LavaOne conference. If you're not here, you should be! The show is amazing, enjoys 50% female to male audience attendance, the speakers are world-class (well, except yours truly, but don't tell them that..) and the location is pretty hard to beat!

That said, nothing gives me more pleasure than saddling up to a table with a laptop, some green tea, sunglasses and sunscreen lotion and checking in on the community. This week's been a heckuva week indeed! Lot's of great stuff so let's get to it!

• Ryan Baxter just announced Spring Cloud Edgware SR1 which contains updates for several modules
• Project Reactor team ninja Simon Baslé offers a look at Reactor 3.2.M1
• Vedran Pavić just announced Spring Session 2.0.0. Check it out - there are a ton of improvements.
• Spring ninja Greg Turnquist has put together a nice post introducing the support in Spring HATEOAS for the Affordances API
• There's now support for query-by-example in Spring Data Redis
• A friendly reminder that, going forward, the preferred way to integrate with the OpenZipkin project is to publish messages over RabbitMQ or Apache Kafka using the spring-cloud-starter-zipkin client…

Greetings Spring community,

As previously announced, we have released a new Affordances API in 1.0.0.BUILD-SNAPSHOT. In this blog post, we’ll take a peek at exactly what this feature lets you do.

History of Affordances

For starters, what is an affordance? Doing a little archeology, Mike Admundsen, a REST advocate, has an article detailing the word’s origins, going back at least to 1986:

The affordances of the environment are what it offers …​ what it provides or furnishes, either for good or ill. The verb 'to afford' is found in the dictionary, but the noun 'affordance' is not. I have made it…

Hi Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This week I'm off to Germany where I'll be speaking at the Java User Group in Münster on Wednesday night. Then, it's off to Solingen for a Cloud Native day on the 12th (this Friday) where I'll be presenting all afternoon - register now! And, if you're closer to the Pacific ocean than the Atlantic ocean, join me next Monday in Hawaii and we'll talk about all things Spring at the very promising LavaOne conference.

As usual, we've got a lot to cover so let's get to it.

• There's new support for auto-configuring the Reactor-based Cloud Foundry Java client in Spring Cloud. This is exciting for me because that Java client is such a powerful tool that takes so long to configure.
• There's a new guide on using Spring Cloud contract by community legend Erdem Günay.
• The Baeldung blog have a nice look at bootstrapping Hibernate 5 with Spring
• The first raft of Spring Days events have been announced! Do not miss these events in a city near you! I'll be there along with other Pivotal peeps. Join us.
• The Apigee Edge Service Broker 3.0 for Pivotal Cloud Foundry…

Hi Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! I hope you had a wonderful, safe and fruitful new year celebration.

This is the first roundup of the new year and so it is also the 7th year anniversary of my starting this column. Every Tuesday, without fail (come holiday, sick-day, flights or frights!), since the first week of January 2011, I've put together this roundup and it has been, and continues to be, an honor. As usual, I'm always happy to have feedback and suggestions from you, the most amazing community ever! Don't hesitate to reach me on Twitter (@starbuxman) or by email…

Hi Spring fans! Welcome to another, albeit very special, installment of This Week in Spring! This is the last installment before 2018 and so we'll take the opportunity to review, as we always do in the last installment of the year, this very exciting year in Spring and its ecosystem.

Let me, on behalf of the Spring and larger Pivotal team, to be the first to wish you and yours a heartfelt happy and safe New Year! Let's first look at some of the major trends that defined 2017. We've got a lot to cover!

• Spring Framework 5 and Reactive Programming - this year we released Spring Framework 5.0. This release is huge - packed to the gills with new features including support for Java EE 8, Java SE 9 and - of course - reactive programming based on Project Reactor and the fully-reactive new web runtime called Spring WebFlux. The web runtime supports a Spring MVC-like component model as well as a new handler model (called functional reactive endpoints) and a new, fully reactive HTTP client called WebClient. Spring Framework 5's reactive support, as impressive as it is, is only the beginning. Spring Framework 5.0 is the foundation for reactive data access support in Spring Data Kay, for reactive security integration in Spring Security 5.0 and for reactive messaging in Spring Cloud Stream. All of these will…

Dear Spring Community,

I am happy to announce the 3.9.2 release of the Spring Tool Suite, our Eclipse-based tooling.

Highlights from this release include:

• updated to Eclipse Oxygen.2 release (https://www.eclipse.org/oxygen/noteworthy/)
• includes updated support for JDK9 and JUnit 5
• allows to install Spring Tools 4 Public Beta features as early-access add-ons

To download the distributions, please go visit:

• Spring Tool Suite: https://spring.io/tools/sts/all

Detailed new and noteworthy notes can be found here: STS 3.9.2 New & Noteworthy.

STS 3.9.3 is scheduled to be released on top of Eclipse Oxygen.3 (4.7.3) in late March 2018.

Enjoy!

Hi Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! I've just returned from London where I spent Monday talking to Pivotal customers and helping teams build software in terms of Spring.

Now I'm home for the holidays. Can you believe we're only a few weeks away from 2018!? Where has the time gone! Chanukah, Christmas and Boxing Day will all be over and Kwanzaa will have started before next week's installment of This Week in Spring, so on behalf of the Spring team and Pivotal as a whole, let me wish you the warmest and happiest of holidays!

We've got a lot to tide you over if…

Speaker: Josh Long

Hi Spring fans! in this installment of Spring Tips - fresh off of SpringOne Platform 2017! - we look at arguably the most important Spring Boot feature: banners!