One of the main themes of Spring Boot 2.0 M1 is a range of significant improvements to its Gradle plugin. Many of those improvements have just been merged and are available in the latest Spring Boot snapshots. There's a few weeks until Spring Boot 2.0.0.M1 will be released at the beginning of May and we'd love to hear your early feedback on the new plugin before then.

You can read more about the plugin's capabilities in its reference and API documentation.

Trying the new plugin

The new plugin requires Gradle 3.4 or later. Like the rest of Spring Boot, snapshots are published to https://repo.spring.io/libs-snapshot. The easiest way to use a snapshot is to create a new Gradle project on start.spring.io…

Speaker: Josh Long https://www.twitter.com/starbuxman

Hi Spring fans! In this installment we look briefly at OAuth, as a spec, and then look at how to stand up a Spring Security OAuth-based auth service.

Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This week I'm in London, UK; Paris, France (for the epic Devoxx France event where I'll be speaking with my buddy Matt Raible) and Stuttgart, Germany, where I'll be speaking at conferences and to customers! If you're around, don't hesitate to say "hi"!

• the new release of Spring Tool Suite is jam-packed with new features supporting Spring Boot and Cloud Foundry. Check the New and Noteworthy and get it while it's hot! (I've just gotten a new laptop, so I'm doing that right now, too!)
• last week in the latest installment of Spring Tips I looked at some the various utility classes in the Spring Framework
• I just presented at the premier Voxxed Days CERN event and the organizers interviewed the amazing Spring Framework lead Juergen Hoeller, and me (his biggest fan)
• don't miss the upcoming webinar on April 13th, Spring Boot Under the Hood
• Check out the Spring Team and Pivotal at OSCON Austin 2017…

Speaker: Josh Long https://www.twitter.com/starbuxman

Hi Spring fans! In this installment, we'll look at some of the many *Util classes in the Spring framework. These utility classes are already there and can be a major time-saver, if you know where to look!

Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This week I'm in Omaha, Nebraska, speaking to customers and tonight I'll be presenting at an event co-sponsored by the Omaha, JUG and the local Omaha, Spring Users Group, talking about reactive Spring. Don't be shy, come out and say hi!

• Sébastien Deleuze just introduced the 1.0.0.M1 relese of extensions supporting using Project Reactor in the Kotlin language
• Spring REST Docs lead Andy Wilkinson just announced Spring REST Docs 1.2.0.RC1. Try it out now! For a good example of Spring REST Docs, scroll down and you'll see a very nice one from a community member.
• Spring Cloud Data Flow contributor and all-around great human Thomas Risberg
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Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This week I'm visiting with customers and am presenting at the first Devoxx US event in San Jose, California. If you're around, don't hesitate to stop by and say hi at the Pivotal booth on the expo hall.

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

• Spring Cloud Dalston RC1 is now available! Get the bits while they're hot!
• Spring Cloud Task contributor Glenn Renfro just announced Spring Cloud Task 1.2.0.M2
• Marius Bogoevici just announced Spring Cloud Stream Chelsea RC1
• Spring Cloud Vault lead Mark Paluch just announced the 1.0.RC1 of the project
• last week I continued my Spring Tips series, this time looking at the reactive HTTP client, the WebClient, in preliminary builds of Spring Framework 5 (as used in preliminary builds of Spring Boot 2.0).
• check out this webinar on domain-driven design by one of …

Speaker: Josh Long

Hi Spring fans! In this tip, we'll look at deploying to, and integrating with, embedded (like Apache Tomcat, Eclipse Jetty, and RedHat's Undertow) and standalone Servlet containers (like the Wildfly application server) in a Spring Boot application.

Speaker: Josh Long

Hi Spring fans! in this installment, we'll look at the reactive WebClient and WebTestClient in Spring Web Flux, the reactive web stack in Spring framework 5, due this summer.

Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This week I'm in Chicago on business and preparing for next week, where I'll be at the first Devoxx US event, ever!. I hope to see you there!

• last week, I continued the Spring Tips series with a look at how to implement server-sent events using classic Spring MVC and Spring WebFlux in Spring Framework 5, due this summer
• Last week, Pivotal and Google announced Kubo, the ability to run and manage Kubernetes, on top of BOSH, alongside Cloud Foundry. This means that it's now possible to get support for both Pivotal Cloud Foundry and Kubernetes deployments, supporting cloud native applications and low-level container orchestration equally.
• Spring I/O Platform lead Andy Wilkinson announced Spring I/O Platform Brussels SR1 and …