Announcing Spring Cloud Stream Applications 2020.0.0 GA Release
We are glad to announce the GA release of the newly redesigned Spring Cloud Stream applications - 2020.0.0.
We would like to use this release announcement as an opportunity to wrap up the blog series that we started in the summer. Therefore, consider this as part 15 of the blog series. In this blog, we are going to give a rundown of all the previous episodes in the series, but first, let us go through some release details.
Release Overview
2020.0.0 GA release contains the completely revamped functional foundation for the event-streaming applications. The old structure was based on an app starter model in which the critical logic for the applications is provided as part of a starter module. The starters then form the foundation for the applications. While it worked for the previous four generations of these app starters (Avogadro, Bacon, Celsius, Darwin, and Einstein), it deemed necessary to rewrite these starters as reusable functions so that they can be used for a wide array of use cases beyond what is required in the out of the box applications. Therefore, many of the old app starters were refactored and redesigned as functions, suppliers, and consumers. For the out of the box Spring Cloud Stream binder based applications, we take these functional components and use them as the base to build them. Other custom applications, even non-streaming use cases, can be designed using these functional components as a foundation. The functions can…
