Azure Spring Cloud is a new Platform as a Service offering for Microservices apps. It is a fully managed service jointly built, operated, and supported by VMware and Microsoft to simplify spring boot based microservices development and management. In this blog, we will walk through how you can accelerate your development with Azure Spring Cloud and IntelliJ IDEA.

Requirements

You will need a few things prepared before following the upcoming sections:

• IntelliJ IDEA, Community/Ultimate Edition, version 2020.1/2019.3 installed

• An Azure Account - click here to create a free trial account

• Azure Toolkit for IntelliJ installed and signed-in

• An Azure Spring Cloud instance provisioned

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We have released Spring Security 5.3.2, 5.2.4, 5.1.10, 5.0.16 and 4.2.16 to address the following CVE reports:

• CVE-2020-5407: Signature Wrapping Vulnerability with spring-security-saml2-service-provider
• CVE-2020-5408: Dictionary attack with Spring Security queryable text encryptor

Please review the information in the CVE report and upgrade immediately.

Spring Boot users should upgrade to 2.2.7 or 2.1.14.

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If you've been following my series on RSocket, you've heard me refer to "clients and servers" many times. But, with RSocket, the line between client and server is blurry. With Rsocket, servers can send messages to clients, and clients can respond to these requests in the same way a server would.

In fact, the RSocket docs don't use the terms 'client' or 'server.' The docs use the terms 'requester' and 'responder' instead. In RSocket, any component can act as a requester, and any component can act as a responder or even both at the…

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In January 2018, we announced that the Spring Security OAuth (legacy) project is officially in maintenance mode. Later in November of 2019, we provided an update in the Spring Security OAuth 2.0 Roadmap, stating that the 2.3.x line will reach end-of-life in March 2020.

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