On behalf of the Spring Cloud team it is my pleasure to announce a new milestone release of Spring Cloud Pipelines - 1.0.0.M2. Apart from some bug fixes it’s providing an out of the box support for Gradle projects.

In order for the Gradle project to work out of the box the following opinionated decisions were taken:

• usage of Gradlew Wrapper

• custom deploy task is used for artifacts deployment

• running smoke tests on a deployed app via the custom smoke task

• running end to end tests on a deployed app via the custom e2e task

• custom groupId task to retrieve group id

• custom artifactId task to retrieve artifact id

• custom currentVersion task to retrieve the current version

• custom stubIds task to retrieve list of collaborators for which stubs should be downloaded

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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…

Speakers: Josh Long, Allard Buijze

We get it already! Microservices let you decompose your application into small, singly-focused, reusable and internally consistent bounded contexts - services - deployed over a network.

Great, but that still doesn't help me get these systems to agree on the worldview of my domain! And that's because...there is no world view of the model that is correct for all services involved.

Join Axon framework founder and lead, Allard Buijze at Trifork and Spring Developer Advocate Josh Long, for a look at how to integrate different systems with different read and write…

On behalf of the community, I am pleased to announce the release of Spring LDAP 2.2.0.RELEASE.

What’s New in Spring LDAP 2.2

You can find highlights of what’s new in the What’s New in Spring LDAP 2.2 section of the reference.

Contributions

Without the community we couldn’t be the successful project we are today. I’d like to thank everyone that created issues & provided feedback.

Feedback Please

If you have feedback on this release, I encourage you to reach out via StackOverflow, GitHub Issues, or via the comments section. You can also ping me @rob_winch or Joe @joe_grandja on Twitter.

Of course the best feedback comes in the form of contributions…

On behalf of the team, I am happy to announce the new service release of the Spring Cloud Camden Release Train. Camden.SR1 can be found in our Spring Release repository or in Maven Central. You can check out the Camden release notes for more information.

Highlights of the Camden SR1 Release Train

The following modules form Camden.SR1:

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

On behalf of the Spring Cloud team it is my pleasure to announce a new project called Spring Cloud Pipelines. Unlike most of Spring projects this one is not available at any repository since it’s not a library, but instead it is available as a github repo for you to download and use as template for creating a deployment pipeline.

Without any further ado let’s get into some details related to the project.

Problem we’re trying to solve

Spring, Spring Boot and Spring Cloud are tools that allow developers speed up the time of creating new business features. It’s common knowledge however that the…

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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