Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This week I'm in Amsterdam, NL and Essen, DE, talking to customers about cloud-native transformation. We've got a lot to cover so let's get to it.

• Spring Tool Suite lead Martin Lippert just announced a preview of Concourse Pipeline and Cloud Foundry manifest editing support releases as a language server. These language servers can be used by any IDE or text editor that supports them, including in this case Microsoft's Visual Studio Code and later STS itself.
• Spring Cloud Stream ninja Soby Chako just announced Spring Cloud Stream.SR2
• Simon Baslé just announced the Reactor Bismuth release train M1
• Stéphane Nicoll just announced Spring Boot 2.0M1! It's finally here! Get the bits of the first major release towards a reactive Spring Boot 2.0. There's so much good stuff…

Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This week I am in Munich for the Spring Meetup; Berlin for OSDC; Krakow for Geecon; Barcelona for Spring I/O, and Eindhoven for NextBuild. If you're around, say hi.

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

• Dr. Mark Pollack just announced Spring Cloud Data Flow 1.2GA!, including the server editions for local, Kubernetes, YARN and Cloud Foundry. This new release is packed with good stuff. I particularly like the support for composed tasks, which lets me orchestrate a flow of tasks as a cohesive unit-of-work. This is ideal for…

It's my pleasure to announce that Spring REST Docs 1.2.1.RELEASE is available from Maven Central, JCenter, and our release repository. My thanks to everyone who contributed to this release by reporting bugs and opening pull requests.

This maintenance release includes a handful of bug fixes and documentation improvements. It is a recommend upgrade for all Spring REST Docs users.

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Introduction

It has been almost 10 years now since I taught my first Core Spring class. At that time almost everything was XML and configuring JPA or Spring Security, for example, could be a lot of hard work. Spring has matured a great deal in the meantime with component-scanning, Java Configuration and Spring Boot making it much more fun to use. And the number of Spring Projects has increased considerably.

Pivotal Training continues to enhance our Spring curriculum and introduce new courses - including Spring Boot Developer and Spring Cloud Services. I have provided an overview of these…

Hi Spring fans! This week I'm in Austin, Texas for OSCON; London, UK, for Devoxx UK; and Nice, France for RivieraDev! If you're around, I'd love to talk to you so don't hesitate to say hi!

• Spring Framework 5 RC1 is now available!
• InfoQ has a nice post on the new Spring Vault release
• Spring Integration lead Gary Russell just announced Spring AMQP 2.0M4 is now available
• Spring Cloud ninja Ryan Baxter just announced Spring Cloud Camden SR7 has been released
• I liked this short-but-sweet look at the Pivotal Cloud Cache on Pivotal Cloud Foundry, in terms of a Spring Boot application
• Periodic reminder: Spring Cloud Contract helps you solve the problem of integration testing distributed systems- don't sleep on this!
• Spring ninja Stéphane Nicoll‏ announced that there is now a starter for Reactive Redis support…

Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This week I'm in Perth, Australia, for the amazing YOW! West conference, talking to developers about building cloud native Java applications. If you're around, say hi. As usual, we've got a lot to cover so let's get to it!

I'm super excited about our first Spring Days event, on May 30-31, in Chicago. I'll be there along with other Spring gurus like Eddu Melendez, Anupama Pradhan, and Michael Minella. I hope you'll join us!

• Spring IO lead Any Wilkinson has announced Spring IO Platform Athens-SR5. He also announced Spring IO Platform Brussels-SR2
• Spring Session lead Rob Winch just announced Spring Session 1.3.1
• Spring Integration lead and all around great human Gary Russell just announced Spring for Apache Kafka 2.0M1
• Spring Cloud ninja Glenn Renfro just announced Spring Cloud Task 1.2.0
• I loved (in case you were unclear about the sentiment I have for this post!) this look at real time sentiment analysis with TensorFlow and Spring Cloud Data Flow
• the results of this months' ZeroTurnaround web framework report are not too surprising: Spring MVC is in a distant lead, then JSF and GWT, then Spring Boot…

Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This week I'm in beautiful Bangalore, India, at the 10th edition of the great, Great Indian Developer Summit! Then, I'm off to Perth, Australia, for YOW! West. If you're around, say hi!. We've got a lot to cover, so let's get to it!

• Spring REST Docs lead Andy Wilkinson just announced Spring REST Docs 1.2.0! This new release includes smarter Asciidoctor integration, support for request-and-response snippets, and better support for large and complex payloads. At the same time, Andy also released Spring REST Docs 1.1.3, a maintenance release
• Catch a replay of Spring WebFlux ninja Sebastien Deleuze's epic Reactive Spring talk on ZTLive
• Spring Boot ninja Stéphane Nicoll just announced Spring Boot 1.5.3, a maintenance release, packed with lots of fixes and improvements. He also announced Spring Boot 1.4.6.
• Spring Cloud Data Flow lead and co-founder Dr. Mark Pollack just announced Spring Cloud Data Flow 1.2.RC1. This release is jam-packed…

Hi Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This week I'm in Atlanta, GA, at DevOps Days Atlanta, and Boston for the Agile Tech Alliance conference. If you're around for either I'd love to see you - say hi!

Don't miss me, Spring Team members, and community speakers at the upcoming Spring Days Chicago, New York and Atlanta events!

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

• The WebFlux functional reactive support in Spring Framework 5.0 is really catching on! I particularly enjoyed this post called Spring: Your Next Microframework
• Baeldung has a great post introducing WebFlux Functional Reactive Endpoints
• Jonathan Borenstein put together a simple demonstration looking at building functional REST services with Spring Framework 5.0
• Hurray! The Spring Cloud Dalston release is now GA! Get the bits and try it out! This release is packed with great new stuff!
• Spring Cloud Task ninja Glenn Renfro just announced Spring Cloud Task 1.2.0.RC1
• Spring Cloud Stream lead Marius Bogoevici …

Hi Spring fans! We've now finished two seasons - 11 episodes and a recap post each - of Spring Tips. I'm going to take a little while to dream up some more content and, before you know it, we'll be back at it again! I'm always interested in hearing proposed topics so if you have some, please, by all means, shout it out loud to me on Twitter (@starbuxman) or by email ([email protected]).

The motivations for me in doing these Spring Tips are:

• revisit traditional topics in light of Spring Boot and
• highlight parts of the amazing Spring ecosystem that, for one reason or another, don't get enough attention.
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