This Week in Spring - February 3rd, 2015

Engineering | Josh Long | February 03, 2015 | ...

Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! We've got a lot to cover, so without further ado, let's get to it!

  1. Spring XD co-lead Dr. Mark Pollack's just announced that Spring XD 1.1 RC1 is now available! Now's the time to get the bits, try it out and see if there any gaps!
  2. If you've been reading the amazing Dr. Syer's blogs of late, you'll know that he's been introducing people to how to use expose and secure REST services for a UI client. The fourth post looks at how to insert an API gateway between the clients and the backend service. The fifth post then introduces OAuth as a drop-in replacement for the bespoke authentication session tokens being used. If you're not following this series, do go back and reread them. This series treats a subject that I get asked…

SpringOne2GX 2014 Replay: Groovy, in the light of Java 8

News | Pieter Humphrey | February 02, 2015 | ...

Recorded at SpringOne2GX 2014.

Speaker: Guillaume LaForge

Core Groovy Track

Slides: http://www.slideshare.net/SpringCentral/groovy-in-thelightofjava8

With Java 8 out the door, Java developers can, at last, benefit from the long-awaited lambdas, to taste the newly-found functional flavor of the language. Streams are there to work more easily and efficiently with heaps of data. Those things are not new to developers acquainted with Groovy. But what is left to Groovy to make it attractive beyond all the aspects Java has caught up with Groovy?

SpringOne2GX 2014 Replay: Introduction to Spring for Apache Hadoop

News | Pieter Humphrey | February 02, 2015 | ...

Recorded at SpringOne2GX 2014.

Speaker: Thomas Risberg

Big Data Track

Slides: http://www.slideshare.net/SpringCentral/spring-one2gx-2014springforapachehadoop

Leverage your existing Java and Spring skills when making the jump to write applications and workflows for Apache Hadoop. In this presentation we will introduce the Spring for Apache Hadoop project and see how it can make developing workflows with Map Reduce, Hive and Pig jobs easier, while providing portability across ASF, Cloudera, HortonWorks, and Pivotal distros. We'll also look at integration with Spring XD, batch jobs and external data sources. In addition to all this we'll show how use a mini-cluster to test your new Hadoop workflows without having to deploy to a full cluster.

Spring Security OAuth 2.0.6.RELEASE Available Now

Releases | Dave Syer | February 02, 2015 | ...

Spring Security OAuth 2.0.6.RELEASE is available now in the usual repositories. It's a bug fix release, and users of 2.0.5.RELEASE should upgrade. The only critical bug was for users of JWT with refresh tokens, and there were also some people experiencing double encoding of redirect uris, which is now fixed. Highlights of new features:

  • (Much requested) ability to have non-expiring refresh tokens with no customizations (just set the validity period to zero or less)

  • The /token endpoint only accepts POST requests by default

  • Resource servers do not accept cookie based authentication by default (you have to switch it on)

  • Resource server configuration has a few new options including the ability to inject custom error handlers

Spring Cloud 1.0.0.RC2 Available Now

Releases | Dave Syer | February 02, 2015 | ...

Spring Cloud 1.0.0.RC2 is available now in the http://repo.spring.io repository. There was a lot of activity pruning and curating dependencies, so users upgrading from RC1 might need to tweak their starter dependencies a bit, but hopefully we are all in a better place as a result. There were also a lot of changes in the Security features, making it easier to customize various parts of that, mainly in response to people actually using it and needing help (so thanks for the feedback). We will probably have an RC3 before the GA, but things are getting pretty close to ready.

Spring Roo 1.3.1.RELEASE now available

Engineering | Pieter Humphrey | February 02, 2015 | ...

On behalf of the Spring Roo Team at Disid Corp, we are pleased to announce the 1.3.1.RELEASE is out!

Spring Roo 1.3.1.RC2 was closed without new reported issues.

Spring Roo jar files have been published to Maven Central.

It is recommended that all Spring Roo users upgrade to this version. For full details on the changes made in the release, please refer to the Spring Roo 1.3.1.RC1 Release Notes and Spring Roo 1.3.1.RC2 Release Notes in JIRA.

Thanks to all awesome users who came up with useful bug reports and suggestions, currently we are working on defining final points of Spring Roo 2.0 Roadmap and it will be published as soon as possible.

For more specific information about Spring Roo project please see the Project Page or GitHub. As always, you'll also find Roo on Twitter - either follow @SpringRoo or just include #SpringRoo in your tweets. Stay tuned to Spring Roo news!

SpringOne2GX 2014 Replay: Working with Databases and Groovy

News | Pieter Humphrey | February 02, 2015 | ...

Recorded at SpringOne2GX 2014.

More Groovy Track

Slides: http://www.slideshare.net/SpringCentral/databases-withgroovy-paulkingoct2013

This talk reviews the features in Groovy which make it easy to work with databases. It reviews the features of Groovy SQL including Groovy's LINQ-like lazy evaluation technology called datasets. In addition, it looks at working with a couple of NoSQL databases: MongoDB (using GMongo) and Neo4J (using it's Java api and via Gremlin support).

Why 12 Factor Application Patterns, Microservices and CloudFoundry Matter

Engineering | Tim Spann | January 30, 2015 | ...

It seems like a lifetime ago, but a few short years ago I was leading a $100 million government project for a large system integrator that involved 50+ developers, 20+ testers, 15+ managers, 5+ ops and a cast of characters. Once a week we had to do our deploy.

Despite using Scrum, Cruise Control, SVN, Java, Eclipse, Guava, Google Guice, UML, JUnit, PMD, Findbugs, Checkstyle, MDD, TDD, eclEmma and mostly modern tools; our deploy process was a fragile, long, manual, person intensive process. Each Friday night we started. A long email thread began the process with a text check list that we…

Spring XD 1.1 RC1 released

Engineering | Mark Pollack | January 29, 2015 | ...

On behalf of the Spring XD team, I am very pleased to announce that the Spring XD 1.1 Release Candidate is now available for download.

The 1.1 RC1 release includes several new features as well as bug fixes.

One theme in the 1.1 release is around Stream processing. The 1.1 M2 version introduced support for Reactor’s Stream API in processing modules. The 1.1 RC1 release adds support for stream processing using RxJava’s Observable API and Spark Streaming alongside the existing Spark job support. By providing a range of options, you can pick the functional programming model that best suits the…

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