We are pleased to announce that Spring Cloud Task 1.2.0.RC1 is now available via Github and the Pivotal download repository. Many thanks to all of those who contributed to this release. Spring Cloud Task 1.2.0.RC1 offers the following features: Upgrade to Spring Cloud Stream Chelsea GA. Renamed closecontext.enable to closecontext.enabled as to match the Spring Boot style for enabled properties. Task name can be set when creating a TaskExecution externally, allowing the launcher to set the name in a persistent manor. Added Ordered Interface to Task Events and Batch Job Events so the user can…

We are pleased to announce that Spring Cloud Task 1.2.0.M2 is now available via Github and the Pivotal download repository. Many thanks to all of those who contributed to this release. Spring Cloud Task 1.2.0.M2 offers the following features: Upgrade to Spring Cloud Dalston RC1 and Spring Boot 1.5.2 - This release is compatible with the Spring Cloud Dalston RC1 release. Fixed invalid data type bug in Oracle Script. Fixed bug in MySQL migration scripts so that they will work on file systems that are case sensitive. Updated Spring Cloud Task samples to use Spring Boot 1.5.2. Updated…

We are pleased to announce that Spring Cloud Task 1.1.2.RELEASE is now available via Github, Pivotal download repository, and Maven Central. The main driver for this Spring Cloud Task release is to correct an error in the dependencies within the 1.1.1.RELEASE. What do you think? We look forward to your feedback on these new features in Github, StackOverflow, or to me directly via Twitter @michaelminella! Spring Cloud Task Home | Source on GitHub | Reference Documentation

We are pleased to announce that Spring Cloud Task 1.1.1.RELEASE is now available via Github, Pivotal download repository, and Maven Central. The main driver for this Spring Cloud Task release is to replace the MYISAM engine that is used to create TASK_SEQ table for the MySQL database with the InnoDB engine. For more information please look at the following Github issue. What do you think? We look forward to your feedback on these new features in Github, StackOverflow, or to me directly via Twitter @michaelminella! Spring Cloud Task Home | Source on GitHub | Reference Documentation

We are pleased to announce that Spring Cloud Task 1.1.0.RC1 is now available via Github and the Pivotal download repository. Many thanks to all of those who contributed to this release. Spring Cloud Task 1.1.0 offers the following features: This release continues to progress on 1.1.0's main theme of improving overall task functionality as well as migrating features that existed within Spring XD to Spring Cloud Task. The feature set for 1.1.0 includes: Updated error message handling - 1.1.0 adds a new column to the TASK_EXECUTION table, ERROR_MESSAGE. This new column will be where any…

We are pleased to announce that Spring Cloud Task 1.1.0.M2 is now available via Github and the Pivotal download repository. Many thanks to all of those who contributed to this release. What's new in Spring Cloud Task 1.1.0.M2 This release continues to progress on 1.1.0's main theme of improving overall task functionality as well as migrating features that existed within Spring XD to Spring Cloud Task. The main updates for this release are the following: Support for Generated Task Id - A common use case for a Spring Cloud Task application is to launch it within a PaaS, like Cloud Foundry or…

#Introduction# A common question when developing streaming applications is, “How many events per second can you process?”. The primary purpose of this blog post is to answer that question without falling into the classic benchmarking conundrum of benchmarking versus "benchmarketing". The common approach with 'native' benchmarking applications provide by messaging middleware vendors is to focus on raw data transport speed, without serialization or deserialization of the message data and without any data processing. In Part 1 of the series, we will follow this approach. Our tests used direct…