Dear Spring Community!

It’s my pleasure to announce two Spring Milestone releases for Amazon Web Services: Spring Integration for AWS 2.0.0.M1 and Spring Cloud Stream Binder for AWS Kinesis 1.0.0.M1.

Both milestones are available in the Spring Milestone repository and they can be consumed as maven dependencies:

<dependency>
    <groupId>org.springframework.integration</groupId>
    <artifactId>spring-integration-aws</artifactId>
    <version>2.0.0.M1</version>
</dependency>

<dependency>
    <groupId>org.springframework.cloud</groupId>
    <artifactId>spring-cloud-stream-binder-kinesis…

Dear Spring Community!

It’s my pleasure to announce today a new project in the Spring Cloud family. It’s called Spring Cloud GCP and its goal is to bring into your applications well-known Spring patterns and Spring Boot conventions for consuming Google Cloud Platform services.

The project currently is in version 1.0.0.M2 and is available from the Spring Milestone Repository:

<dependencyManagement>
   <dependencies>
       <dependency>
           <groupId>org.springframework.cloud</groupId>
           <artifactId>spring-cloud-gcp-dependencies</artifactId>
           <version>1.0.0.M2</version…

On behalf of the Spring Integration team I am pleased to announce that the GA release for the Spring Integration 5.0 version (5.0.0.RELEASE) is now available.

It can be downloaded from Maven Central, JCenter, and our release repository:

compile "org.springframework.integration:spring-integration-core:5.0.0.RELEASE"

First of all, special thanks to all community members for their ongoing active contributions to the framework!

Several JIRAs (and some GitHub issues), since the previously announced RC1, are included in this release, mostly bug fixes from early adopters and Reference Manual…

On behalf of the community, I’m pleased to announce 1.7.5 and 2.0.1 maintenance releases of Spring AMQP. They are available from Maven Central, JCenter, and our release repository.

These versions are mostly bug fixes and recommended for everyone to upgrade.

The version 2.0.1 is a foundation for the upcoming Spring Boot 2.0 M7 release.

Thanks to all the community contributors for various feedback and pull requests.

We hope to see you at SpringOne Platform next week. It will be packed with many Spring talks, opportunities to learn about the latest and greatest features and of course some…

I am pleased to announce that the 1.1.0.RELEASE of Spring Integration for Amazon Web Services is now available in the Spring release repository and Maven Central.

First of all thanks to all community members for any feedback and contributions to make features in this project available!

Some highlights what we have after a year and a couple months of amazing team work:

• S3StreamingMessageSource to get access to S3 resources content on demand;

• KinesisMessageHandler and KinesisMessageDrivenChannelAdapter for interaction with AWS Kinesis service;

• DynamoDbMetaDataStore to store metadata in the AWS DymanoDB table;

• And, of course, a ton of bug fixes!

…

We are pleased to announce the first Release Candidate for the version 2.1 of the Spring for Apache Kafka:

repositories {
    maven { url 'http://repo.spring.io/milestone' }
}
compile "org.springframework.kafka:spring-kafka:2.1.0.RC1"

The general reason for so quick point release is the recently released Apache Kafka 1.0.0 version. There are no critical feature in that release, but some breaking changes in the kafka.admin and kafka.streams have been introduced. Therefore this release represents mostly compatibility with Apache Kafka 1.0.0:

• Deprecate bounce() and waitUntilSynced() in the KafkaEmbedded since respective API in the AdminUtils have been removed

• The KStreamBuilderFactoryBean now uses StreamsBuilder instead of deprecated KStreamBuilder

• The @EmbeddedKafka.brokerProperties() can be configured with the properties placeholders

• The SpEL expressions in the @KafkaListener attributes now can be used simplified since BeanFactory resolver is supplied with the TemplateAwareExpressionParser

• A NonResponsiveConsumerEvent has been introduced to track the sate of the ListenerContainer for possible target Broker unavailability

  …

On behalf of the Spring Integration team I am pleased to announce that the Release Candidate 1 for the Spring Integration 5.0 version (5.0.0.RC1) is now available.

It can be downloaded from the Milestone Repository:

repositories {
    maven { url 'http://repo.spring.io/libs-milestone' }
}

compile "org.springframework.integration:spring-integration-core:5.0.0.RC1"

20 JIRAs (and some GitHub issues) are included in this release, together with bug fixes and a number of new features. Some highlights of features in the RC1, since the previously announced Milestone 7:

• The components populated by the Java DSL parser are now registered as BeanDefinitions in the application context, thanks to newly introduced in the Spring Framework 5.0 Supplier-based programmatic bean registration. This approach helps us to avoid some boilerplate code for singletons registration and initialization. In addition this BeanDefinition registration may be useful in some use-case to select particular components in the application context. In fact, exactly that is used in the Spring Cloud Function project for java.util.function.* beans scanning.

• The IntegrationFlows.from(Class<?> serviceInterface) has now overloaded version with an additional beanName argument. This becomes exactly the bean name for a generates gateway proxy overriding the [flowId].gateway value:

  @Bean public IntegrationFlow uppercaseFlow() { return IntegrationFlows.from(MessageFunction.class, "uppercase") .<String, String>transform(String::toUpperCase) .get(); }

  …

Dear Spring Community!

As an event-driven microservices framework, Spring Cloud Stream dramatically simplifies the complexity while developing event-driven applications. The feature capabilities and its benefits are not the focus of this article (to learn more, please review the Reference Guide), but instead, my goal is to show you what the framework has to offer from the testing standpoint, the tools, and techniques. This article is intended to encourage the community to share feedback on the existing testing infrastructure, so any thoughts, comments, or feature requests are welcome! We…

Dear Spring Community!

Today I’d like to announce the first Release Candidate of the version 1.1 of Spring Integration for Amazon Web Services. Its artifact

org.springframework.integration:spring-integration-aws:1.1.0.RC1

is available in the Milestone Repository.

Thanks to everybody contributed!

Some highlights of the features since the previously announced Milestone 1:

KinesisMessageDrivenChannelAdapter

The KinesisMessageDrivenChannelAdapter has been improved to handle properly expired and throttled shard iterators. Also it now skips closed shards. Some other bug fixed have been provided…

I am pleased to announce that the 2.0.0.RELEASE of Spring AMQP is now available in the Spring release repository and Maven Central.

First of all thanks to all community members for any feedback and contributions to make this new instalment of Spring for AMQP and RabbitMQ support project!

Some highlights what we have after a year and a couple months of amazing team work:

• Full Java 8 and Spring Framework 5.0 support;

• New spring-rabbit-junit artifact with some useful testing utilities including BrokerRunning JUnit @Rule;

• The amqp-client library of version 5.0;

• A DirectMessageListenerContainer to allow to consume messages directly on the client thread instead of queue-based logic in the SimpleMessageListenerContainer;

• A ConnectionNameStrategy option for the ConnectionFactory to name target Broker connections for possible diagnostics;

• new RabbitOperations.invoke() for batch of template operation on the dedicated, thread-bound channel;

• Encoder support for the Logback AmqpAppender;

  …