Hi Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This week I am in Casablanca, Morocco for the amazing Devoxx Morocco event talking to developers in the hub of North Africa.

Can you believe it's already the middle of November? And can you believe we are less than a month away from the amazing SpringOne Platform event in San Francisco, CA? I hope you're going!

Now, without further ado, let's get to it.

• Spring messaging ninja Oleg Zhurakousky just announced Spring Cloud Stream Elmhurst.M3 / 2.0.0.M3. The new release improves content-type resolution, support for Apache Kafka 0.11+, and introduces a good deal of nice samples.
• Spring Data Geode/GemFire lead John Blum just announced Spring Data Geode / GemFire 2.0.0.RC1. The new release updates dependencies, builds on Java 8 (introducing Java 8 types and lambdas), and introduces new samples.
• In this last week's installment of Spring Tips I revisit Kotlin and Spring…

Speaker: Josh Long

Hi Spring fans! In this installment of Spring Tips we'll revisit Kotlin, leveraging more DSLs in both the Kotlin and Spring ecosystem.

Hi Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This week I'm in Antwerp, Belgium for the amazing Devoxx (Belgium) event. I'm co-presenting with my friends Matt Raible and Mark Heckler on progressive web applications and reactive Spring. I'll be joined by a lot of Pivotal and Spring teammates here so make sure to check the schedule.

Later this week I'll be doing a joint webinar - Grails for the Spring Boot Developer - with Grails co-founder Jeff Scott Brown.

Then, it's off to Casablanca, Morocco, for the Devoxx MA event.

If you're at either event, don't hesitate to say hi…

Speaker: Josh Long

Hi Spring fans! In this installment of Spring Tips we'll look at how to use the new old framework you've probably never heard of, Spring Shell! Spring Shell supports the creation of interactive shell-based applications.

Hi Spring fans and welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This week I'm in San Francisco for the first, and sure-to-be-amazing, Kotlin Conf 2017. I'll be talking about Spring Boot and Kotlin, and I hope you'll join me if you're around.

We've got a lot to cover this week so let's get to it!

• Spring Batch lead Michael Minella just announced Spring Batch 4.0.0.M5 which includes, among other things, an ItemProcessor implementation that supports Java 8 Function implementations, updated documentation and much more.
• Spring Framework lead Juergen Hoeller announced Spring Framework 5.0.1 which includes a few bug fixes which in turn pick up fixes in Reactor Netty and welcome performance improvements in AspectJ 1.8.12.
• Last week, in another installment of Spring Tips, I looked at HTTP based contracts with Spring Cloud Contract.
• Spring Cloud co-founder Spencer Gibb announced the first release candidate to Spring Cloud Edgware. There are some changes to not in the artifact names for various starters. Spring Cloud Edgware has a lot of new features…

Speaker: Josh Long

Hi Spring fans! In this tip, we'll look at how to get fast-feedback and do integration testing with Spring Cloud Contract. In this video, we'll focus on HTTP-based services.

Hi Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! Can you believe we're already staring down the end of October 2017? This year has flown by! What a rush! This week I'm home in sunny San Francisco talking to customers and giving talks.

I'll be speaking "at" the vJUG 24 online conference. The conference lasts 24 hours! There's a talk every hour, from as many timezones as possible! I hope you'll join me (and thousands of others) as we look at Reactive Spring at 04:00 GMT on Wednesday.

And, of course, I hope you'll register and join my friend and Grails co-founder Jeff Scott Brown and me for a look at Grails for Spring Developers…

Speaker: Josh Long

Hi Spring fans! In this tip, we'll look at how to integrate a Spring Boot application with JAX-RS (using the Jersey reference implementation). JAX-RS is a JCP standard for building REST applications.

Hi Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This week I've been in Dallas and Austin, Texas, first for customer meetings and then to attend and speak at the epic Reactive Summit. If you're around, don't hesitate to say hi on Twitter! We've got a lot to cover so let's get to it!

Also, I'll be doing a webinar with our friends at OCI on November 9th, 2017, on Grails for the Spring Developer, with my friend and Grails co-founder Jeff Scott Brown. I hope you'll join us!

• Last week, SpringSource co-founder and Spring Framework lead Juergen Hoeller won a JAX Special Jury Award for all of his considerable work since the very beginning of the Spring projects. Thanks to him, the special jury noted, "Spring Framework has never needed a complete rewrite in all of the years it has existed. Instead, it has continuously adapted to the changing trends." Thank you, Juergen, for all that you do.
• Last week, I looked at how to use Scala with a reactive Spring Boot and Spring Webflix-based application…

Speaker: Josh Long

Hi Spring fans! In this tip, we'll look at the bootiful possibilities of integrating Spring Boot and Spring WebFlux, the reactive web runtime and framework in Spring Framework 5, with Scala and the Scala ecosystem and integrating the Spring WebFlux reacive runtime with other Reactive Streams implementations like Akka Streams.