The Spring Blog

On behalf of the community, I am pleased to announce that the General Availability (RELEASE) of the Spring Cloud Greenwich Release Train is available today. The release can be found in Maven Central. You can check out the Greenwich release notes for more information.

End of Life (EOL) Reminder

The Edgware release train will reach EOL status on August 1st, 2019. You can read the formal announcement here.

The Spring Cloud Finchley release train is considered a major release and is tied to the Spring Boot 2.0.x release. Therefore, the Spring Cloud Finchley release train will reach EOL status when the Spring Boot 2.0.x release branch is marked EOL. An announcement about this will be made on this blog once a date has been determined.

Hi Spring fans! In this installment of Spring Tips we look at how to use the reactive WebFlux client to make a number of concurrent requests to distinct service instances (discovered using a service registry like Netflix Eureka or Consul through the Spring Cloud DiscoveryClient abstraction) and meet SLAs by using the fastest request to return.

speaker: Josh Long

Hi Spring fans and welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This week I’m off to pleasant Pittsburgh, PA to speak at, among other places, DICK’s Sporting Goods. Join me!

Now that my entire six part series introducing how to use Spring Boot with Microsoft Azure just concluded, with the last parts being released in this last week, I wanted to give you the whole thread here for your consumption.

• Bootiful Azure: Taking Your First Steps with Microsoft Azure (1/6)
• Bootiful Azure: SQL-based data access with Microsoft SQL Server (2/6)
• Bootiful Azure: Global Scale Data Access with CosmosDB (3/6)
• Bootiful Azure: Integration with Azure Service Bus (4/6)
• Bootiful Azure: Object Storage Service (5/6)
• Bootiful Azure: To Production! (6/6)

We are pleased to announce that Spring Cloud Task 2.1.0.RELEASE is now available on Github and the Pivotal download repository. Many thanks to all of those who contributed to this release.

What’s New?

Spring Cloud Task 2.1.0.RELEASE is intended to be the version of the framework aligned with Spring Boot 2.1.0. Updates from 2.1.x include:

• Update all dependencies.
• Spring Cloud Task infrastructure components are now enabled through auto-configuration.
• The exitCode of a TaskExecution is null when a task is executing.
• Spring Cloud Task is compatible with Java 8, 9, 10, 11.

This is part 6 of a 6 part series, with new posts Mondays and Thursdays, introducing Microsoft Azure for Spring developers. I couldn’t have put this together without input from Microsoft’s Asir Vedamuthu Selvasingh, Yitao Dong, Bruno Borges, Brian Benz and Theresa Nguyen. You can find the code for this series on Github. Hit me up on Twitter (@starbuxman) as you’re reading the installments with any feedback or questions. You can also learn more about Microsoft Azure in my Spring Tips (@SpringTipsLive) installment, Bootiful Azure

In this week’s installment I talk to Google Cloud developer advocate, fellow Java Champion and prolific speaker and open source contributor in the Kubernetes and Spring communities, Ray Tsang.

Listen to the Podcast on SoundCloud or on iTunes, among other places.

This is part 5 of a 6 part series, with new posts Mondays and Thursdays, introducing Microsoft Azure for Spring developers. I couldn’t have put this together without input from Microsoft’s Asir Vedamuthu Selvasingh, Yitao Dong, Bruno Borges, Brian Benz and Theresa Nguyen. You can find the code for this series on Github. Hit me up on Twitter (@starbuxman) as you’re reading the installments with any feedback or questions. You can also learn more about Microsoft Azure in my Spring Tips (@SpringTipsLive) installment, Bootiful Azure

Hi Spring fans! In this installment of Spring Tips, we look at how to integrate Spring with JavaFX, a UI framework that supports building rich desktop applications.

speaker: Josh Long

Hi Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring. I’ve just returned from Montreal, Canada and tomorrow I’m off to Dallas, Texas for customer visits. This time of year is marked by pronounced climate changes and the optimism for a new year ahead. I love it. That optimism is certainly visible in today’s roundup. We’ve got a lot to cover so let’s get to it!

• You know, I never know what people will find interesting in our wonderful community! It’s for this reason that I try to cover as many topics as possible in the Spring Tips series. The latest installment has proven to be popular! Almost 100 likes no YouTube as of this writing. In it, I look at business process management with the Apache 2 licensed Flowable BPMN and CMMN engine
• The Spring Framework team just migrated from JIRA to Github issues. It was not easy. Read here to learn about what happened and how it happened
• Spring Session Bean-SR2, Apple-SR8, and 1.3.5 Released
• Spring Cloud Task 2.1.0.RC1 is now available
• I’m continuing my six part series looking at how to use Spring with Azure. This is the third of six installments looking at how to scale data access with CosmosDB. In the fourth installment, published yesterday, we looked at Messaging and Integration with Azure Service Bus.
• Spring Boot 2.1.2 released
• Spring Boot 2.0.8 Released
• Spring Boot 1.5.19
• Spring Security 5.1.3, 5.0.11, 4.2.11 Released
• Spring CredHub 2.0.0 released
• Spring Data Lovelace SR4, Kay SR13, and Ingalls SR18 released
• Composed Function Support in Spring Cloud Data Flow
• Spring Framework 5.1.4, 5.0.12 and 4.3.22 available now
• We’d love it if you’d take our survey on Spring Cloud Stream
• Ditto for our survey on Spring Cloud Data Flow
• Want to meet the Spring Boot team? They’re in NYC and hanging out tomorrow!
• Piotr has a nice post on building microservices with Spring Boot and Kotlin
• Steven van Beelen has updated the Axon article on the Baeldung blog to reflect version 4.0 of Axon. Check it out!
• An interesting post by Arnold Galovics on deploying a simple Spring Boot with MySQL app to AWS using Elastic Beanstalk
• A look into Spring Cloud Gateway
• You know what will be fun? The SpringOne Tour in London, on March 18-19. Join us!
• Spring Data ninja Mark Paluch has chimed in with some good news: Test Containers is working on R2DBC support.
• An oldie but a goodie from the Baeldung blog: how to access a File from the classpath in a Spring Application
• the Apache RocketMQ looks at the roadmap of Spring and Apache RocketMQ integration, thanks to the work of the Spring community
• How do you build reactive webapps using Spring Boot and Vaadin? This tutorial shows you from scratch.
• I love this ultimate guide to Visual Studio Code for Java in 2019 by Microsoft’s Bruno Borges
• How to deploy your Cloud Foundry app with (almost) zero fear using Travis CI
• A friendly reminder that people are seeing significant performance improvements in Spring Boot 2.1
• This is super cool: Eirini enables pluggable scheduling. Choose whether Cloud Foundry Applicatio runtime should use Diego or Kubernetes to orchestrate applications
• Marco Behler looks at Spring Boot “Properties” magic
• Don’t miss this upcoming webinar on application security on Pivotal CF
• This is an oldie-but-a-goodie: check out Rob Winch’s awesome talk about Reactive Spring Security
• An interesting post on understanding Spring Boot starters and tools
• Another fine installment of this Month in RabbitMQ — Jan 8, 2019