Dear Spring community,

On behalf of the Spring Integration/AMQP team I'm pleased to announce that we have released a number of maintenance releases (click the links in the following bullets to see the corresponding release notes):

• Spring AMQP 1.4.4.
• Spring Integration 3.0.7.
• Spring Integration 4.0.7.
• Spring Integration 4.1.3.

All of these releases are available from the Release Repository, as well as from Maven Central.

Thank you very much for everyone involved!

We are working on the first milestone for the Spring AMQP 1.5 release in the next several weeks, which will have some new features such as support for the RabbitMQ Management HTTP API, RabbitMQ 3.5…

Dear Spring community,

We are pleased to announce that the Spring Integration Kafka Support 1.1 GA is now available. Use the Release Repository with Maven or Gradle

compile "org.springframework.integration:spring-integration-kafka:1.1.1.RELEASE"

or download a distribution archive, to give it a spin.

Overview

The main reason of such a quick next point release just after 1.0 GA is to address a number of critical fixes for the upcoming Spring XD 1.1.1 and 1.2 releases. In addition, this release provides performance improvements around message generation streaming scenarios, which required an upgrade to Spring Integration 4.1, which is…

Dear Spring community,

We are pleased to announce that the Spring Integration Kafka 1.0 GA extension is now available, providing familiar Spring Integration endpoints for Apache Kafka. As usual, use the Release Repository with Maven or Gradle

compile "org.springframework.integration:spring-integration-kafka:1.0.0.RELEASE"

or download a distribution archive, to give it a spin.

First of all thanks to all who contributed to the project - special thanks to the project's founder Soby Chacko, who implemented the infrastructure, as well as the High Level Consumer-based message source and the producers, and also to Marius Bogoevici, who learned the intricacies of the Simple Consumer API…

Dear Spring Community!

Recently we published the Spring Integration Java DSL: Line by line tutorial, which uses Java 8 Lambdas extensively. We received some feedback that this is good introduction to the DSL, but a similar tutorial is needed for those users, who can't move to the Java 8 or aren't yet familiar with Lambdas, but wish to take advantage

So, to help those Spring Integration users who want to moved from XML configuration to Java & Annotation configuration, we provide this line-by-line tutorial to demonstrate that, even without Lambdas, we gain a lot from Spring Integration…

Dear Spring Community!

Just after the Spring Integration Java DSL 1.0 GA release announcement I want to introduce the Spring Integration Java DSL to you as a line by line tutorial based on the classic Cafe Demo integration sample. We describe here Spring Boot support, Spring Framework Java and Annotation configuration, the IntegrationFlow feature and pay tribute to Java 8 Lambda support which was an inspiration for the DSL style. Of course, it is all backed by the Spring Integration Core project.

For those, who are not interested in Java 8 yet, we provide similar tutorial without Lambdas: Spring Integration Java DSL (pre Java 8): Line by line tutorial…

Dear Spring community,

As we promised in the Release Candidate blog post, we are pleased to announce that the Spring Integration Java DSL 1.0 GA is now available. As usual, use the Release Repository with Maven or Gradle, or download a distribution archive, to give it a spin.

See the project home page for more information.

First of all, we are glad to share with you that on Nov 12, 2014, DZone research recognized Spring Integration as the leader in the ESB / Integration framework space, leading with 42% marketshare, in a publication of their recent survey results. And the report is…

Dear Spring community,

We are pleased to announce that soon after the Spring Integration 4.1 Release Candidate the Spring Integration Java DSL 1.0 Release Candidate is now available. Please use the Milestone Repository with Maven or Gradle, or download a distribution archive, to give it a spin.

See the project home page for more information.

The release includes many new features and improvements, as well as a number of bug fixes. The GA release is planned for the middle of November.

Here is a summary of major changes since the last milestone:

Refactoring and Breaking Changes

While still supporting earlier Java versions, the Spring Integration Java DSL is primarily positioned for Java 8 and its Lambda support. We have removed several functional interfaces in favor of similar interfaces from Java 8: Consumer<T>, Function<T, R> etc. Of course, to support backward…

Dear Spring community,

We are pleased to announce that the Spring Integration 4.1 Release Candidate is available. Please use the Milestone Repository with Maven or Gradle, or download a distribution archive, to give it a spin.

The release includes many new features and improvements, as well as a number of bug fixes. The GA release is planned in early November.

First of all, thank you all who provided feedback for the 4.1 Milestone 1 and submitted reports (bugs or new features). A special thanks to those who provided contribution via Pull Requests. Here is a summary of major changes since…

We are pleased to announce the availability of the Release Candidate for Spring AMQP 1.4; the GA is planned to be released in early November.

First of all, thank you all who provided feedback for the milestone 1.4 M1 version and submitted reports (bugs or new features). Special thanks to Stéphane Nicoll, who had introduced annotation-based message listeners (@RabbitListener) and the new RabbitMessagingTemplate.

Features and fixes included in this release (changes since the milestone)

• With the annotation-based message listener you can use the @SendTo annotation to send the result of the method as a reply message (when there's no replyTo in the inbound message):
…

We are pleased to announce that the Java DSL for Spring Integration 1.0 Milestone 3 has been released. Please use the Milestone Repository with Maven or Gradle, download a distribution archive, or see the project home page for more information.

Since the last Milestone 2, some new features and further improvements, as well as a number of bug fixes have been included to this Milestone, with the GA release due around the end of October.

First of all thanks for all who are interested in this Spring Integration Extension, provide feedback, share their thoughts and even contribute.

Here is…