Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This week I'm in London, England for µCon, Antwerp, Belgium for Devoxx, and Malmö, Sweden for Oredev. If you're around, ping me and say hi.

• Spring Framework and Spring Boot ninja Stephane Nicoll just announced that Spring Framework 4.3.4, mostly bugfixes, is available now.
• Spring Security ninja Joe Grandja just announced Spring Security OAuth 2.0.12 which is primarily bugfixes and paves the way for some nice new features.
• Spring Cloud Data Flow and Spring Cloud Task ninja Glenn Renfro just announced Spring Cloud Task 1.1.0.RC1. Spring Cloud Task continues the journey to 1.1 which adds a lot of new features including error handling, improved options for customizing the launch of partitioned job workers.
• Spring Data lead Oliver Gierke just announced Spring Data release train Hopper SR5. This release includes a lot…

Getting started with Spring Cloud can be daunting. If you have seen the great Josh Long give his Cloud Native Java presentation, you will notice that you need to create several supporting applications before you can see your application at work.

Spring Cloud CLI Launcher

As part of the transition from Spring XD to Spring Cloud Dataflow, one of the extracted projects is called the Spring Cloud Deployer. The Deployer allows for launching applications on various platforms, including launching on a developer machine.

We wanted to simplify users' ability to experiment with Spring Cloud, so the spring cloud command…

Speaker: Josh Long

Hi Spring fans! In this tip, we'll look at how to create components that are aware of the Spring container

Hello and welcome back to another installment of This Week in Spring! Can you believe we're now two weeks until 2017 - time sure is flying! This week I'm in Los Angeles, California, USA, and then it's off to London for µCon 2016, Devoxx Belgium and Oredev. If you're at any of these events be sure to say hi! Now, without further ado let's get to it!

• first, be sure to check out this webinar on Spring Cloud Contract by Marcin Grzejszczak
• Spring Data ninja Mark Paluch just announced that Spring Vault and Spring Cloud Vault 1.0.0.M1 are now available
• Spring Security lead Rob Winch announced the release of Spring Security 4.2.0.RC1 with lots of new features and updates.
• In last week's "Spring Tips" installment I looked at circuit breakers in Spring, including the Hystrix circuit breaker and the new circuit breaker functionality in Spring Retry
• related, Spring Cloud team member Ryan Baxter shared new …

Speaker: Josh Long

Hi Spring fans! In this tip, we'll quickly look at the Netflix Hystrix circuit breaker in Spring Cloud and the circuit breaker in Spring Retry

Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This week I'll be in Des Moines, Iowa for the Prairie.Code conference. If you're nearby, stop by and say hi!

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

• Spring Cloud ninja Marcin Grzejszczak just announced Spring Cloud Camden SR1. The Spring Cloud release train is such a thing of beauty - just seeing it makes me want to build something cool! It includes Spring Cloud AWS, Bus, Commons, Contract, Config, Netflix, Security, Sleuth, Stream, Task, and Zookeeper.
• Spring Cloud Data Flow co-founder Dr. Mark Pollack just announced Spring Cloud Data Flow 1.1.M2.
• Want help automating the pipeline that sees your application move from a git push to a successfully deployed application in production? Check out the new project, Spring Cloud Pipelines, which is a set of shell scripts that can be plugged in portably across Pivotal Concourse or Jenkins…

Speaker: Josh Long

Hi Spring fans! In this tip, we'll quickly look at the Kotlin programming language and some very high-level things you need to know when building Spring Boot and Kotlin applications

Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! It's been another crazy wonderful week. This week I'm in London and Cambridge, UK visiting with customers and speaking (in particular, at the O'Reilly Software Architecture Conference) If you're about be sure to say hi! Now then, let's get to it!

• The Spring Cloud Services Team, led by Chris Sterling has just finished making Eureka Service Discovery work even better on Pivotal Cloud Foundry. The new 1.2 release allows peer replication across installations and organizations, enabling multi-site replication.
• Spring Cloud Data Flow 1.1.M2 just released today, picking up Boot 1.4.1 and Spring Cloud Camden releases. Check out all the extra goodies in Mark Pollack's blog post.
• Learn how to build data-centric microservices with Spring Cloud Data Flow with this incredible webinar
• Spring Integration ninja Artem Bilan has just …

On behalf of the team, I am pleased to announce the release of the second milestone of Spring Cloud Data Flow 1.1. You can download the local server that is part of this release here.

The 1.1 M2 release includes the following new features and improvements:

• Builds upon Boot 1.4.1 and Spring Cloud Camden improvements

• Task application properties can now be referenced using non-prefixed property names

• Add visual representation for related streams. This representation also includes nested TAPs and the downstream processing nodes in an overall topology view.

• The UI adds bulk import support for Task definitions. This allows importing task definitions from a file or the ability to add multiple task-definitions using the Flo-editor

• The flo-editor embeds CodeMirror for incremental DSL syntax validation and error reporting. There’s also a toggle on/off button to enable and disable incremental validations.

• Adds a form-based login page for non-OAUTH backend authentication methods such as the LDAP, Basic and File-based options.

• Adds the ability to pass application specific properties via YAML file. This is particularly useful when deploying streams with that set many deployment properties.

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