Dear Spring Community,

I am happy to announce the new release of our Eclipse-based tooling today: The Spring Tool Suite (STS) 3.6.2 and the Groovy/Grails Tool Suite (GGTS) 3.6.2.

This is a maintenance release that updates STS/GGTS to the just released Eclipse Luna SR1 release. This includes a number of fixes across the various projects that are included in the STS distribution, together with fixes for the Java8 compiler and tooling in Eclipse.

To download the distributions, please go visit:

• Spring Tool Suite: https://spring.io/tools/sts/all
• Groovy/Grails Tool Suite: https://spring.io/tools/ggts/all

Detailed new and noteworthy notes can be found here: STS/GGTS 3.6.2 New & Noteworthy.

NOTE: Both tool suites ship on top of the latest Eclipse Luna 4.4 SR1 release as 64bit and 32bit…

Spring Boot 1.1.8 has been released and is available now from repo.spring.io and Maven Central.

This maintenance release includes a security patch to the "white label error" page which prevents potential cross-site scripting attacks; as such it is a recommended upgrade for all Spring Boot users. For a complete list of changes please refer to the issue tracker.

Project Page | GitHub | Issues | Documentation

I am pleased to announce that Spring Boot 1.2.0.M2 is available now in the Spring milestone repository. This release adds a number of improvements and new features over M1. Highlights include:

• Full configuration of Jackson ObjectMapper features from your application.properties file.
• Auto-configuration for Jersey.
• Support for Log4j2.
• Support for commons-dbcp2.
• A new "disk usage" health indicator.
• Improved RabbitMQ auto-configuration.

For a complete list of changes, and for upgrade instructions, see the Spring Boot 1.2 Release Notes on the WIKI. The reference documentation also continues to…

Are you heading to Silicon Valley Code Camp 2014?   If you are, we invite all of the Java community members to stop by the Pivotal Booth and talk to Pivotal engineers about the latest innovations in Java SE, in Spring, Groovy, Grails, Redis, RabbitMQ, Tomcat, Cloud Foundry and Hadoop. The exhibit space is open Saturday 8:00am – 5:00pm, and Saturday from 8:30am to 3:30pm, so there should be plenty of time to get your questions answered.  See below for details about our sessions and awesome giveaways - come find us! 

SATURDAY - OCTOBER 11, 2014           
9:45 AM

• Josh Long — Spring advocate at Pivotal
• Building "Bootiful Applications with Spring Boot
• Room: 8401

11:45 AM

• John Hann, — Pivotal
• Introducing Rave.js: Zero-config JavaScript Applications
• Room: 8401

1:45 PM

• Ilayaperumal Gopinathan — Pivotal
• Simplifying Big Data development at Spring XD
• Room: 8403

SUNDAY - OCTOBER 12, 2014

9:15 AM

• Cornelia Davis — Platform Engineer at Pivotal
• The Self-healing, Elastic Runtime that is Cloud Foundry
• Room: Room: 4302

10:45 AM

• Cornelia Davis — Platform Engineer at Pivotal
• Running Your Spring Apps in the Cloud
• Room: 4302

Visit us at the Pivotal Code Camp booth for technical expert conversations on Cloud Foundry, Spring, Groovy, Grails, Redis, RabbitMQ, Tomcat, Hadoop and much more.

Also, don't miss the Pivotal Web Services Hoodie Push!  Build a REST service with Spring Boot, push it live to run.pivotal.io and get a hoodie!  You can do it ahead of time, and show it running to us, or use our laptops at the booth.

 

 

Save the date for SpringOne2GX 2015!  We hope you will mark your calendar and join us again! SpringOne2GX 2015 will be held September 14 - 17, 2015 at the Marriott Marquis in Washington DC.

We're exploring ways to help developers create rich, modern front-ends that integrate easily with Spring back-ends. If you attended SpringOne this year, you've already seen some of the things we've been working on:

1. Hypermedia support in Spring Data REST presented by Greg Turnquist, Oliver Gierke, and Roy Clarkson
2. RaveJS: Spring Boot concepts for JavaScript applications by John Hann
3. Differential Synchronization and JSON Patch by Craig Walls and me

In short, We want to make it easy to communicate efficiently between a Spring back-end and a client and to easily integrate the best and most…

Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This week, I've been at the Couchbase Connect conference talking to developers about Spring Data Couchbase (and Spring Boot, Spring XD, Spring Session, and more..). Fun show, fun crowd! Next week, I'll be at JAX London and Geekout UK, so be sure to say hi if you're around.

Now, with that, let's get on to the roundup..

1. The good Dr. Pollack just announced the 1.0.1 release of Spring XD, the easiest way to build data-integration and ingestion solutions. It may be only a 1.0.1 release, but make no mistake: there are some very cool features in this release, including improved administrative and administrative UI features.
…

Spring Cloud (the new umbrella project announced in September) has reached a milestone, its first, and fresh jars are available in the repo.spring.io repository. Spring Cloud is going to follow a "release train" model for releases, a bit like Spring Data, but we haven't got a cool name for this one yet, so it's just 1.0.0.M1. The modules that are part of this release are

• Spring Cloud Config: Centralized external configuration management backed by a git repository. The configuration resources map directly to Spring Environment but could be used by non-Spring applications if desired.

• Spring Cloud Netflix: Integration with various Netflix OSS components (Eureka, Hystrix, Zuul, Archaius, etc.).

• Spring Cloud Bus: An event bus for linking services and service instances together with distributed messaging. Useful for propagating state changes across a cluster (e.g. config change events).

• Spring Cloud Security: A set of primitives for building secure applications and services with minimum fuss.

  …

On behalf of the Spring XD team, I am very pleased to announce the general availability of Spring XD 1.0.1!

This release includes bug fixes and enhancements as well as some new features:

• HTTPS access and Authentication to Admin Server
• Cluster and Stream views in UI
• Configure a location for custom modules
• Null sink

You can download the zip distribution or install on OSX using homebrew. On RHEL/CentOs you can install using yum.

Feedback is very important, so please get in touch with questions and comments via

• StackOverflow spring-xd tag
• Spring JIRA or GitHub Issues

Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This week the Spring team is at JavaOne! There's been, and will be, lots to see! We're also hanging out at the booth, talking to as many users as possible. Check out the link I just give listing all the cool Pivotal (and non-Pivotal) talks at JavaOne. (Ahem. Naturally, I personally would love it if you made my talk - Spring4TW! - tomorrow morning at 8:30am at Parc 55, Cyril Magnin II/III!).

In addition to IoT, Big Data, and Microservice demos using NetFlixOSS on Spring, students were doing the coding challenge to build a REST service with Spring Boot and pushed to Pivotal Web Services in < 15 minutes to get the preshavedyak hoodie from American Apparel, and learning about the best PaaS for Java available on the market today; Java 8 / Tomcat 8 support was released just days ago, and there is strong support for Spring, Groovy and Grails.

• I really liked Michael Plod's Why I Recommend Spring webinar, now available online as a replay
• Last week, Activiti BPMN2 engine co-founder Joram Barrez and I gave a talk on how to build process (read: workflow) centric Spring applications, also now available online.
• Tuesday, Oct 21st, 2014 join Matt Stine for microservice architecture series #2: Architecting for Continuous Delivery: Microservices with Pivotal CF and Spring Cloud
• Thursday, October 23, 2014, 2014 Building “Bootful” UIs with Spring Boot and Vaadin
• Tuesday, November 4, 2014 - microservice architecture series #3 - Join Dr. Dave Syer on Security for Microservices with Spring and OAuth2
• Missed microservice architecture #1? Catch the replay of Building "Bootiful" Microservices with Spring Boot on the Spring Developer Channel
• Spring Boot 1.1.7 is now available!
• Setup Spring Security with Active Directory LDAP in Spring Boot Web Application (I just got asked about this at the Spring BOF yesterday!)
• There's been an interesting debate on microservices recently. "Uncle" Bob Martin has written up a post claiming that .jars and Ruby gems give you the same benefit of microservices. There's a great rebuttal (which I happen to agree with..) by Giorgio Sironi on his blog. There's even a nice wrapup of the whole discussion on InfoQ.
• I really dig Matt Stine's wind tunnel comparison of PaaSes. Up first: Heroku. I can't wait to see subsequent posts in the series!
• This post on using Spring Data Redis was published (and included in TWiS..) last year, but it came up again and I still thnk it's a worthy read
• The eHarmony blog has a nice post on how to setup Spring Batch Admin (the tricky parts..)
• In the you have to see it to beleive it department, did you know there's a Spring for Delphi (Spring4D) project? There are Spring-inspired C++, ColdFusion, JavaScript, .NET, Python, and numerous others. Cool to add this to the list.
• The Intertech blog has another installment on their epic Spring Integration tutorial. This one's on service activators - basically the Spring Integration escape-hatch so you can call regular Java objects.
• Benjamin Ball has a great writeup on using RabbitMQ and Spring
• Yashwant Chavan has a nice post on building a simple Spring Boot (with Spring MVC) example and editing it in Eclipse.
• Our pals at Codecentric are at it again! They've just released their first cut of their Spring Boot Admin. This looks like something that would fit nicely in the Spring Cloud project...
• This has to be one of the coolest Spring Boot presentations, ever! Careful, I don't recommend watching it full-screen if you get motion sickness! :)
• Are you stuck on Apache CXF but still want first-class security? This post looks at how to plugin Spring Security on top of CXF in minutes
• Biju Kunjummen did a nice job clarifying the differences between Spring's WebApplicationInitializer and ApplicationContextInitializer