Josh Long

Josh Long

Josh (@starbuxman) is the Spring Developer Advocate at Pivotal and a Java Champion. He's host of "A Bootiful Podcast" (https://soundcloud.com/a-bootiful-podcast), host of the "Spring Tips Videos" (http://bit.ly/spring-tips-playlist), co-author of 6+ books (http://joshlong.com/books.html), and instructor on 8+ Livelessons Training Videos (http://joshlong.com/livelessons.html)

Recent Blog posts by Josh Long

This Week in Spring - November 7th, 2017

Engineering | November 07, 2017 | ...
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…

Spring Tips: Spring Shell

Engineering | November 01, 2017 | ...
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.

This Week in Spring - October 31st, 2017

Engineering | October 31, 2017 | ...
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.…

This Week in Spring - October 24th, 2017

Engineering | October 24, 2017 | ...
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…

Spring Tips: Bootiful JAX-RS

Engineering | October 18, 2017 | ...
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.

This Week in Spring - October 17th, 2017

Engineering | October 17, 2017 | ...
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…

Spring Tips: Bootiful, Reactive Scala

Engineering | October 11, 2017 | ...
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.

This Week in Spring - October 10th, 2017

Engineering | October 10, 2017 | ...
Hi Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! By happy coincidence, today is also Ada Lovelace day. According to the Finding Ada site: Ada Lovelace Day (ALD) is an international celebration day of the achievements of women in science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM). It aims to increase the profile of women in STEM and, in doing so, create new role models who will encourage more girls into STEM careers and support women already working in STEM. Happy Ada Lovelace day! I've just returned from the epic ByteMyCode conference in Wroclaw, Poland, and am now in…

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