Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This week I'm in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil for the lovely QCon Rio conference, and then I'm off to Tokyo, Japan for a Spring in Summer conference for local Spring users!

The team is abuzz with excitement leading up to this year's SpringOne2GX 2016, the biggest and best SpringOne2GX, ever! This year, you're going to see us do WAY more with WAY less and get it to production, to boot! This is exciting for everyone of us and it will be for audience members, as well!

• our pal Kenny Bastani put together a followup post in his series on Spring Cloud about polyglot persistence with Spring Cloud
• Spring for Hadoop lead Thomas Risberg just announced 2.3M2, complete with support for running batch tasklets, improved Spring Boot integration, and improved YARN support
• Singaporean Guest bloggers Han Lim and Tony Nguyen have written up a very cool blog on migrating from .jsp-based applications to Angular.js
• John Thompson has a nice post on using Spring Boot with ActiveMQ over on DZone
• Saravanan Subramanian has a nice post on getting started with RabbitMQ
• Kathy Thomas has a written up and shared a presentation on building a …

Note on authors

This post is a guest post by Han Lim and Tony Nguyen. Han and Tony have done a great presentation at our Singapore Spring User Group on Spring + Angular JS. This blog is based on their presentation.

Abstract

In this article, we try to describe our experiences moving from server-side rendering view technologies like JSP, Struts and Velocity to client-side rendering view technologies using AngularJS, a popular Javascript framework for modern browsers. We will talk about some of the things to look out for when you are making this change and potential pitfalls you may encounter. If…

Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! As usual, we've got a lot to cover so let's get to it! This week I'm back in São Paulo, Brazil, to visit customers, then it's off to Rio for QCon Rio! If you're in either city, message me on Twitter and let's grab a coffee!

• Today, Pivotal CEO Paul Maritz stepped down [and welcomed Pivotal Labs founder Rob Mee as the new CEO. There's a post by Paul and by Rob. Thank you, Paul, and welcome Rob!
• the amazing Scott Frederick just announced the general availability of Spring Cloud Connectors 1.2.0! - check this out!
• Spring ninja Stéphane Nicoll just announced Spring Boot 1.3M4, with fixes and improvements aplenty!
• Spring Integration lead Gary Russell just announced a CRAZY packed new Spring Integration 4.2 release including, but not limited to, support for security Context Propagation, STOMP client channel adapters, metrics, new Spring Framework 4.2 event channel adapters, a process barrier component, last modified file list filters, codec, JMS shared subscriptions, (S)FTP improvements, SOAP Action Propagation, …

Welcome to another installation of This Week in Spring! As usual, we've got a lot to cover so let's get to it!

• Spring ninja Stephane Nicoll just announced Spring Boot 1.3.0.M3, chock full of great features including HTTP session persistence, JMS and AMQP improvements, logging improvements, and auto-configurations for the H2 Database console and embedded MongoDB.
• Spring Batch lead Michael Minella just announced Spring Batch 3.0.5
• Check out this cool look at using Spring Boot to process Twitter feeds with Neo4j
• check out this interesting Chinese-language post on using .yml with Spring Boot
• Disid corporation has just announced a maintenance release for Spring Roo
• Just saw this post. Our very own Cornelia Davis, director of platform engineering, was recognized as one of the top 10 women in cloud by CloudNOW! As she has for years now, she'll be at SpringOne2GX…

We’re pleased to announce a third milestone release of Spring Statemachine 1.0.0.M3.

A lot has happened since a previous milestone and getting here took a bit more time we originally estimated. Now that we're here, let's crack it and see what new features we have in this release.

Beyond usual bug fixes here is a list of main new features:

• Distributed state machine
• Persisting state machine context
• Relax use of enums as states and events
• Programmatic instantiation of state machines
• New recipe modules
• New samples (persist, zookeeper, web)

#Distributed state machine

Distributed state is a new…

Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This week I'm in Washington D.C., delivering some cloud-native realtalk at the Agile 2015 conference with my pal Andrew Clay Shafer then it's off to Denver, CO, again to speak to customers! If you're in either area, say hi!

We're fast approaching SpringOne2GX 2015! Things are getting exciting around here as the team delivers more and more amazing bits! The weeks to come, leading into SpringOne2GX, are my favorite time of the year. Watch this space for new releases aplenty!

• The biggest announcement, this week, of course, is the General availability of Spring framework 4.2! Get the bits while they're hot! This is a game changer release, packed with new features! I'll wait while you go read the new features list..
• ..Welcome back! Have you upgraded your applications already to Spring framework 4.2? Good! Next up on the list: Spring framework lead Juergen Hoeller's followup post looking forward to the next feature release of Spring Framework, 4.3
• Spring Session (and Spring Security!) lead Rob Winch just announced Spring Session 1.0.2…

Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! We've got a lot to cover so let's get to it!

• Spring Data lead Oliver Gierke just announced Spring Data SR2 which includes 40 issues fixed and includes an important update to the support for JTA 1.2's @Transactional
• Spring Security lead Rob Winch has just announced Spring Security Kerberos 1.0.1 which includes Spring Security 4 and LDAP 2.0 support, as well as a fix for an issue.
• Spring Security lead Rob Winch doesn't sleep so he also just announced Spring Security 3.2.8
• Not resting on his laurels, Spring Security lead Rob Winch also announced Spring Security 4.0.2 which - among other things - includes numerous bug fixes, support for Spring framework 4.2, and minor improvements to Spring Security itself including a status code returning …

Introduction

NOTE: Revised July 2019

A simple example of setting up a microservices system using Spring, Spring Boot and Spring Cloud.

Microservices allow large systems to be built up from a number of collaborating components. It does at the process level what Spring has always done at the component level: loosely coupled processes instead of loosely coupled components.

For example imagine an online shop with separate microservices for user-accounts, product-catalog order-processing and shopping carts:

Inevitably there are a number of moving parts that you have to setup and configure to…

Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring!

This week in I'm in Shanghai, China and Hangzhou, China and Shenzhen, China, talking to some of the world's largest websites (of the same scale of Netflix!) about their use of Spring Boot and Spring Cloud. (More on that later!)

Anyway, without further ado..

• Paul Chapman put together a nice walkthrough Spring Cloud today. Way to go Paul!
• Andy Wilkinson just announced the Spring IO Platform BOM 1.1.3 has been released
• Spring Boot 1.3M2 - along with new support for JOOQ, /flyway and /liquibase Actuator endpoints, ANSI colored banner.txt, and Apache Artemis integration (among many other things) is now available! Check it out.
• If you missed Spring rockstar and Spring Boot ninja Greg Turnquist's talk on debugging and maintaing Spring Boot applications (why would you miss it??), then check it out
• This is a nice …