Following 1.1.0.M1, it's my pleasure to announce that Spring REST Docs 1.1.0.RC1 has been released and is available from https://repo.spring.io/milestone/.

What's new?

HTTPie request snippet

A new HTTPie request snippet has been introduced. Similar to the existing curl request snippet, the new snippet contains the HTTPie command for a request. My thanks to Raman Gupta who contributed this new feature.

Reusable snippets

Snippets can now be created once with some common configuration and then reused. This reduces repetition when documenting common parts on an API, such as self links.

Relaxed…

Speaker: Michael Minella, Pivotal

One of the major promises of the cloud is that of flexibility. Today, most applications deployed to the cloud are long running processes that use the flexibility of cloud scaling. But computing is full of short lived tasks that start up, do their work, and then terminate. These tasks are excellent cloud use cases since resources can quickly be provisioned - and reclaimed.

In this webinar, we'll explore a new project in the Spring Cloud portfolio, Spring Cloud Task, a new framework for developing and orchestrating short-lived microservices. We'll explore…

Speakers: Mark Fisher & Mark Pollack, Pivotal The future of scalable data processing is microservices! Building on the ease of development and deployment provided by Spring Boot and the cloud native capabilities of Spring Cloud, the Spring Cloud Stream and Spring Cloud Task projects provide a simple and powerful framework for microservice stream and batch processing. At a higher level of abstraction, Spring Cloud Data Flow is an integrated orchestration layer that provides a highly productive experience for deploying and managing sophisticated data pipelines consisting of standalone…

I am pleased to announce that Spring Integration 4.3.0.M2 is now available from the Spring milestone repository. This release closes about 50 JIRAs and includes almost a 100 commits.

Thanks to everyone who has contributed. Especially to the Spring Cloud Stream team, whose comprehensive Spring Integration usage influences the project direction.

Some key feature since the First Milestone:

• The Spring Integration runtime object model, together with Component Metrics, now can be exposed as a graph, which may be used to visualize the current state of the integration application. When running in a web container, the @EnableIntegrationGraphController annotation, together with an IntegrationGraphServer bean, creates a service to retrieve the model and state over the REST protocol, e.g. in JSON notation:
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Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This week I'm in Budapest, Hungary, for the amazing Craft Conf. This show is a very special show indeed. Special, for me, first in that I'll be joined by industry titans like Adrian Cochroft, Jez Humble, Sam Newman, and Kyle Kingsbury, and in that I'll join two of my friends from Pivotal - Andrew Clay Shafer and Bridget Kromhout (also titans)! I'm so excited to be among these, and many more, that I can hardly contain it and I recommend you consider making the trip if it's convenient, one day, yourself.

Now then, we've got a lot to get…

We’re pleased to announce a first release candidate of Spring Statemachine 1.1.0.RC1. The release can be found in the Spring Milestone repository https://repo.spring.io/milestone.

What we got into this first release candidate:

• Fixed 20 tickets.
• Usual bug fixes.
• New junction, exit/entry pseudostates.
• New uml modeling support based on Eclipse Papyrus

Full changes as usual is available from changelog.

UML Modeling

One of the most requested features has been to be able to use modeling frameworks to design a statechart instead of using plain good old JavaConfig. Work for this started a while back and first step for this was to use Eclipse Papyrus…

We are pleased to announce that Spring Batch 3.0.7.RELEASE is now available via Maven Central, Github and the Pivotal download repository. This is the 7th maintenance release for the 3.0.x branch of Spring Batch and addresses a number of minor bug fixes and enhancements. Most important of them, it addresses compatibility issues with the latest Spring Data release as well as adding updates to support the latest Hibernate releases. Many thanks to all of those who submitted the many pull requests that went into this release.

Spring Batch Home | Source on GitHub | Reference Documentation

We look forward to your feedback in Jira, StackOverflow, or to me directly via Twitter @michaelminella…

On behalf of the community, I'm pleased to announce the release of Spring Security 4.1.0.RC2. This release resolved over 60 tickets.

What's New in 4.1

You can find a good summary of What's New in Spring Security 4.1 in the reference documentation.

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. A special thanks to the following people who provided pull requests for this release:

• #51 - SEC-1932 Add Pbkdf2PasswordEncoder Thanks Rob Worsnop
• #180 - Allow setting alwaysRemember from RememberMeConfigurer Thanks Leon Radley
• #183 - Remove duplicate test. Thanks Johnny Lim
• #193 - Fix corrupted character and add formatting per the duplicated text block Thanks Art O Cathain
• #196 - SEC-2978: fix typos in documentation Thanks Soeun Park
• #197 - Update HttpSecurity.java logout() sample code Thanks Jeffrey Walraven
• #228 - Fix typos Thanks Johnny Lim
• #3764 - Authentication Success and Failure Handlers in AbstractPreAuthenticatedProcessingFilter Thanks Shazin Sadakath
• #3777 - Content Negotiating Logout Success Handler #3282 Thanks …

Following previous Reactive Spring and Reactor Core 3.0 blog posts, I would like to explain why Reactive types are useful and how they compare to other asynchronous types, based on what we have learned while working on the Spring Framework 5 upcoming Reactive support.

Why using Reactive types?

Reactive types are not intended to allow you to process your requests or data faster, in fact they will introduce a small overhead compared to regular blocking processing. Their strength lies in their capacity to serve more request concurrently, and to handle operations with latency, such as requesting…