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Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! What a week it's been! Last week saw me visit St. Louis to speak to some customers and deliver a talk at a meetup with my pal Mark Heckler

• check out this post on using Spring Boot with the Wicket web framework
• Nice, quick post on using Spring Boot with MongoDB
• I love this post: it shows how to use Spring Cloud's Config Server with Groovy. Is that a big deal? NO! It's an incredibly tiny, concise, expressive deal! What a wollup!
• I hope you'll join my pal Kenny Bastani for a webinar as he looks at how to use Spring Boot and Neo4J to create a page rank algorithm later this month
• Join Spring Data lead Oliver Gierke as he reviews the latest and greatest in Spring Data in this webinar
• Check out test-obsessed …

Recorded at SpringOne2GX 2015 Presenter: Mark Pollack Big Data Track Slides: http://www.slideshare.net/SpringCentral/spring-xd-today-and-tomorrow In this talk we will cover the major new features added to Spring XD since last year as well as upcoming changes for the next major version. Key integrations driven by the Big Data ecosystem at large such as Kafka, Spark, functional programming, integration with Python, and designer/monitoring UIs will be introduced and demonstrated. The next major version of XD will shift to a foundation based on Cloud-Native architectural principles, where each…

Recorded at SpringOne2GX 2015 Presenters: Sam Brannen & Nicolas Fränkel Core Spring Track Slides: http://www.slideshare.net/SpringCentral/get-the-most-out-of-testing-with-spring-42-53128369

Join Sam Brannen and Nicolas Fränkel to discover what's new in Spring Framework 4.2's testing support and learn tips and best practices for testing modern, Spring-based applications. Sam Brannen is the Spring Test component lead and author of the Spring TestContext Framework, and Nicolas Fränkel is the author of the book "Integration Testing from the Trenches".

In this session, Sam and Nicolas will cover…

Speaker: Oliver Gierke

A year has passed and the Spring Data shipped two release train iterations packed with interesting features. This talk will give a broad overview of the most important introduced in the Fowler and Gosling release trains. We will cover recent additions and improvements in Spring Data Commons - the module that's shared amongst the store specific ones. We'll then delve into the latest and greatest features of individual store modules, like JPA, MongoDB and the community ones as well.

Tuesday, Jan 26th, 2016 10:00AM PST (San Francisco GMT-08:00) Register

Speaker: Kenny Bastani

This webinar introduces you to a sample application that combines multiple microservices with a graph processing platform to rank communities of users on Twitter. The problem we’re going to solve is how to discover communities of influencers on Twitter using a set of seed profiles as inputs.

To solve this problem without a background in machine learning or social network analytics might be a bit of a stretch, but we’re going to take a stab at it using a little bit of computer science history. We’re going to use a collection of popular tools as a part of this article’s sample application. The tools we’ll use, in the order of importance, will be: Spring Boot Neo4j Apache Spark Docker RabbitMQ While there are some missing pieces, such as securing REST API access, and mapping device volumes to the containers, these kinds of important topics will be covered in future webinars.

Welcome to another installation of This Week in Spring! Today, I spoke at the San Francisco JUG to a packed room and now I'm off to St. Louis for a day of customer meetings. Lots of great stuff to look at as we kick off the new year so let's get to it!

• Check out Spring Integration contributor Artem Bilan's post on the latest-and-greatest on Spring Integration including the debut of a new Spring Integration extension supporting zipping and unzipping of messages in flight.
• the EuregJUG Maas-Rhine published a post on its site about.. the site! Which is all Spring Boot. Check it out.
• Check out the replay of Andy Wilkinson's SpringOne2GX 2015 talk on documenting REST APIs with Spring REST Docs
• Check out the replay of Fatima Casau's SpringOne2GX 2015 talk on using Spring Boot and Groovy
• Marius Bogoevici's SpringOne2GX 2015 talk on stream processing …

Dear Spring Community,

The Spring Integration team wants to wish you a Happy New Year!

We have been super-busy working on new features and improvements. Here is an overview of our recent activities around Spring Integration and Spring AMQP:

• We made several maintenance releases of Spring Integration 4.2.x, the most recent being Spring Integration 4.2.4. All other maintenance versions will be released only on demand.

• Spring Integration 4.3 is planned for this summer. Furthermore, for version 5.0, we started looking more closely at incorporating Reactive Streams into the Framework.

• Similarly with the Spring AMQP project, the current maintenance version is 1.5.3 and 1.6 has been started, too.

• Spring Integration Java DSL 1.1.1 is available, too. You can find several Java DSL samples in the latest Spring Integration Manual, by the way.

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Recorded at SpringOne2GX 2015. Track: Web / Javascript track Speaker: Rob Winch Slides: http://www.slideshare.net/SpringCentral/state-of-securing-restful-apis-with-spring The many benefits of a RESTful architecture has made it the standard way in which to design web based APIs. For example, the principles of REST state that we should leverage standard HTTP verbs which helps to keep our APIs simple. Server components that are considered RESTFul should be stateless which help to ensure that they can easily scale. We can leverage caching to gain further performance and scalability benefits.

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