Hi Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! I've just returned from London where I spent Monday talking to Pivotal customers and helping teams build software in terms of Spring.

Now I'm home for the holidays. Can you believe we're only a few weeks away from 2018!? Where has the time gone! Chanukah, Christmas and Boxing Day will all be over and Kwanzaa will have started before next week's installment of This Week in Spring, so on behalf of the Spring team and Pivotal as a whole, let me wish you the warmest and happiest of holidays!

We've got a lot to tide you over if…

Speaker: Josh Long

Hi Spring fans! in this installment of Spring Tips - fresh off of SpringOne Platform 2017! - we look at arguably the most important Spring Boot feature: banners!

Hi Spring fans and welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! I'm still reeling from the incredible, larger-and-better-than-ever SpringOne Platform 2017 event last week! Ouch! My brain...

This week I'm speaking to customers and am presenting at two User Groups (in Atlanta, GA and St. Louis, MO) on testing and all things Spring with my new teammate Mario Gray (@mariogray)! Join us.

This Sunday, it's off to London for a few days customer visits. If you're around, don't hesitate to say hello (@starbuxman).

• Last week, in the final Spring Tips installment for this third season, I looked at the amazing new tooling in Spring Tool Suite 4, VS Code (and Atom).
• Spring Boot, tooling and dependency management legend Andy Wilkinson just announced the dependency management 1.0.4 RELEASE
• Simon Wardley gave a very nice SpringOne 2017 keynote introducing the concept of value stream mapping. This is a must watch.
• Multiple keyspaces using a single Spring Data CassandraTemplate – Lanky Dan Dev Blog
• More complex modelling with Spring Data Cassandra – Lanky Dan Dev Blog
• I also liked Dan Newton's look at using reactive …

Hi Spring fans and welcome to This Week in Spring from the premier JVM-language event SpringOne Platform 2017! There is a massive amount of stuff to cover, especially in light of SpringOne Platform, so let's get to it!

• Spring Cloud co-founder Spencer Gibb just announced Spring Cloud Finchley M5
• Spring Tools lead Martin Lippert just announced the first previews of Spring Tool Suite 4 and the new IDE-agnostic language servers. Also, I did a special (and early!) Spring Tip that looked at these topics.
• Spring Batch lead Michael Minella just announced Spring Batch 4.0.0
• Dr. Dave Syer has updated the Spring Security and Angular_ and Spring Boot and OAuth tutorials
• Spring ninja Greg Turnquist just announced Spring Session updates for Core, MongoDB, and Apache Geode.
• Spring Cloud Data Flow lead and co-founder Dr. Mark Pollack just announced Spring Cloud Data Flow 1.3.0.M3…

Speaker: Josh Long

Hi Spring fans! In this Spring Tips, we'll look at Spring Tool Suite 4, new runtime feedback and the IDE-agnostic language servers that underpin all of it. I'm releasing this Spring Tips installment early, just in time SpringOne Platform 2017 and the big announcements of the day.

Speaker: Josh Long

Hi Spring fans! In this installment of Spring Tips we'll look at the new API gateway project, Spring Cloud Gateway, to support edge service requirements like rate limiting, circuit breakers, proxying, and more.

Hi Spring fans and welcome to another installation of This Week in Spring! This week I'm in San Francisco and then off to Austin, TX for the epic G3 Summit. If you're around don't hesitate to say hi. Then, it's straight back to San Francisco for next week's premier agile, ops, apps and cloud-centric event worldwide, SpringOne Platform 2017. Do not miss this!

• In last week's installment of Spring Tips, I look at testing in Spring-based applications. Check it out!
• Spring Framework lead Juergen Hoeller delves deeper into our decision to end first-class JDK 6 support for Spring in this blog post.
• Spring Framework lead and Spring co-founder Juergen Hoeller just released Spring Framework 5.0.2 and 4.3.13. The new releases are recommended refinements. Of particular note, our Castor XML support has been deprecated, and we're effectively deprecating support for JDK 6.
• Spring Data lead Mark Paluch just announced Spring Data Ingalls SR9 and Spring Data Kay SR2…

Speaker: Josh Long

Hi Spring fans! In this installment of Spring Tips we'll look at testing and test-driven development, in general, in terms of the Spring ecosystem.

Hi Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! Can you beleive we're less than six weeks away from 2018? Time sure flies when you're having fun!

This week I'm in Los Angeles talking to community members and then taking in the Thanksgiving holiday here in the US surrounded by friends and family. Thanksgiving is a chance to reflect on that for which we are thankful. I am sure that I speak for all of us here on the Spring and Pivotal teams when I say that we are thankful for you. Thank you for making this the most amazing, dynamic, exhilarating and interesting community…

Speaker: Josh Long

Hi Spring fans! In this installment of Spring Tips, we'll look at the Spring Boot build plugin, "fat" .jars, executable .jars, and "thin" .jars.