Recorded at SpringOne2GX 2015. Track: Core Spring Speakers: Adam Koblentz and Josh Long Slides: http://www.slideshare.net/SpringCentral/springboot-jrebel-cf Abstract: Spring Boot, the new convention-over-configuration centric framework from the Spring team at Pivotal, marries Spring's flexibility with conventional, common sense defaults to make application development not just fly, but pleasant! Spring Boot gives you a huge leg up over normal starter projects, now let's give you another boost by adding JRebel. With JRebel, the average Java developer saves over 1 work-month per year by…

Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring where, with 2016 just around the corner, we'll look at some interesting news from the last week and we'll take a moment to review another amazing year in the Spring and Pivotal ecosystem.

Now let's look at an short-and-sweet list of the latest-and-greatest from the last week:

• Got a Amazon.com gift card burning a hole in your pocket from the holidays? Well, fret not, I've got just the thing for you! At long last, Spring legend Craig Walls' epic Spring Boot in Action is available! Get it while it's hot! GO GO GO!
• Netflix's Genie, which is a job scheduling and resource management layer for big-data jobs based on Spring Boot has just recently cut over from Swagger to Spring REST Docs
• Christoph Burmeister put together an introduction to building a fullstack web application with Spring Boot
• This Portuguse-language post looks at starting a new project …

On behalf of the team, I am pleased to announce several releases in the Spring Cloud Stream and Spring Cloud Data Flow family of projects.

Spring Cloud Stream 1.0 M3 introduces the following features

• Many improvements in middleware binding. In particular for supporting multiple binders, so you can now have RabbitMQ as an input and Kafka be the output, for example.
• Partitioning improvements

Spring Cloud Stream Modules 1.0 M2 adds many new modules with updated documentation.

• Sources: File, Load Generator, sftp, and tcp
• Processors: httpclient, PMML, and Splitter
• Sinks: Cassandra, Field Value Counter, file, ftp, gemfire, HDFS Dataset, JDBC, tcp, throughput, and websocket
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Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This week, many of us will be off for the Christmas holiday. If you celebrate, then let me wish you the Merriest of Christmases from our team. If you don't celebrate, we'll see you next week as we look at our annual This Year in Spring! and welcome 2016!

Holiday or not, there's a lot of great stuff to read this week so let's get to it!

1. If you're using Spring Cloud Eureka and Jersey you may run into issues because Eureka itself uses Jersey 1.x where as Spring Boot's Jersey support is based on Jersey 1. Read how Aleksandar Stoisavljevic solved it
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We are pleased to announce the Spring for Apache Hadoop 2.3.0 GA release.

Spring for Apache Hadoop 2.3 adds the following new features and improvements:

• Added support for Hive 1.x and updated HiveTemplate to work with HiveServer2
• New batch tasklet for Apache Spark, see docs for a usage example
• Added FlushTimeoutTrigger to StoreObjectSupport to allow to flush to disk during writes
• Replaced internal state machine implementation with new "spring-statemachine" project
• Added jobHistoryAddress to SpringHadoopProperties for Boot configuration
• Update build to use Spring Framework 4.2.4, Spring Batch 3.0.6.RELEASE, Spring Boot 1.3.1.RELEASE and Spring Integration 4.2.4.RELEASE.
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On behalf of the Spring Data team I'd like to announce the availability of the second service release of the Spring Data Gosling release train. The release ships 45 issues fixed and contains an important bugfix for an issue in Spring Data JPA's method metadata detection. Thus it's a recommended upgrade for all Gosling users and also users of previous release trains.

The release is be included in the just released Spring Boot 1.3.1 release which should make the upgrade a non-issue. If you're using the BOM, make sure you upgrade to Gosling-SR2A (note the trailing A). A tiny glitch during the…

Spring IO Platform 1.1.5.RELEASE is now available from both repo.spring.io and Maven Central.

This maintenance release upgrades the versions of a number of the projects in the Platform to pick up their latest maintenance releases:

• Spring Batch 3.0.6.RELEASE
• Spring Boot 1.2.8.RELEASE
• Spring Framework 4.1.9.RELEASE
• Spring Integration 4.1.8.RELEASE
• Spring Security 3.2.9.RELEASE
• Spring Security OAuth 2.0.8.RELEASE
• Spring Social 1.1.4.RELEASE
• Spring Social Facebook 2.0.3.RELEASE
• Spring Web Services 2.2.3.RELEASE

The versions of many third-party dependencies have also been updated.

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Spring Boot 1.2.8 and 1.3.1 have been released and are available now from repo.spring.io and Maven Central.

If you haven't tried Spring Boot 1.3 yet, now may be the time to do so: 1.3.1 is a maintenance release that brings 126 fixes and improvements, almost half of those being pull requests. Thanks again to our amazing contributors!

Spring Boot 1.2.8 is a maintenance release with a selection of fixes and improvements.

As we have fixed a security vulnerability, we highly recommend an immediate upgrade for all Spring Boot users.

Project Page | GitHub | Issues | Documentation

Spring IO Platform 2.0.1.RELEASE is now available from both repo.spring.io and Maven Central.

This maintenance release upgrades the versions of a number of the projects in the Platform to pick up their latest maintenance releases:

• Reactor 2.0.7.RELEASE
• Spring Batch 3.0.6.RELEASE
• Spring Boot 1.3.1.RELEASE
• Spring Cloud Connectors 1.2.1.RELEASE
• Spring Framework 4.2.4.RELEASE
• Spring Data Gosling SR2A
• Spring Integration 4.2.4.RELEASE
• Spring Integration Kafka 1.2.1.RELEASE
• Spring REST Docs 1.0.1.RELEASE
• Spring Social 1.1.4.RELEASE
• Spring Social Facebook 2.0.3.RELEASE

The versions of many third…