Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This week I'm in warm 'n wonderful Austin, TX to meet with customers and then off to Mexico City, Mexico to present the keynote at a the SG Conference and Expo. If you're in Mexico City y si le gustaria hablarme sobre todos las cosas Spring y la informatica, sere a Mexico City desde miercoles. No hesita a contactarme en Twitter (@starbuxman)!

It's June 30th! Whew this year is flying! We've got a lot to cover this week so let's get to it!

• Spring framework lead Juergen Hoeller just announced Spring framework 4.1.7 and 3.2.14, both of which are maintenance releases
• Spring framework ninja Stephane Nicoll just announced Spring framework 4.2 RC2, packed with lots of new features!
• Spring Tool Suite lead Martin Lippert just announced updates version 3.7.0. The updates include Eclipse Mars 4.5 GA, Spring Boot YML support, improved Cloud Foundry integration, Pivotal tcServer 3.1.1 support, and early support for Spring Roo 2.0.0.M1 (thanks to Disid).
• the good Dr. Syer, co-founder of the Spring Boot and Spring Cloud projects, just announced the first Spring Cloud release train, Angel.SR3…

Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! I was in London, last week, for Devoxx UK. The show was a rousing success all around. I gave a talk, a workshop, and was delighted to participate in the closing keynote, too! This week I'm in Kraków, Poland, for Devoxx Poland (né 33rd Degree) which seems to be an amazing success as well! I want to thank the organizers (Mark Hazell and Grzegorz Duda of Devoxx UK and PL respectively) for inviting me - I haven't had this much fun in a while and I love the communities that both events serve.

In addition to being in the keynote, I was…

Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This week I'm in sunny London for Devoxx UK where I'll be talking to developers about building cloud-native applications with Spring Boot, Spring Cloud, and Cloud Foundry. As usual, if you're in the area, hit me up. The big news this week is the Spring XD 1.2 GA blowing the doors off performance numbers! No benchmarketing here, everything is published and reproducible: Performance turning to get ~12 MILLION msg/sec with an in-memory transport and 2.6MILLION msg/sec when using Kafka (100 byte messages). Lots more detail in the …

This post is a guest post by community member Tadaya Tsuyukubo (@ttddyy), creator of the Spring Social Slideshare project. Thanks Tadaya! I’d like to see more of these guest posts, so - as usual - don’t hesitate to ping me! -Josh

Spring Social Evernote is one of the community modules in the Spring Social ecosystem. It is a service provider implementation for Evernote. It allows developers to work with the Evernote SDK for Java with idiomatic Spring idioms.

Evernote takes a unique approach for providing their APIs to developers. They have created language specific SDKs based on Thrift serialization format. Dave Engberg, CTO of Evernote, explained the motivations for choosing Thrift in this blog…

Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! What a week! This week I'm in Kansas City for the 6,000+-strong developer conference of a single company's developers and then it's back to New York City for QCon NYC where I'll be talking up building cloud-native applications with Spring Boot and Spring Cloud. If you're in either place be sure to reach out to me and let's talk shop (Spring, and, optionally, in Kansas City, BBQ..)

• Spring co-founder and project lead Juergen Hoeller put together two must-read posts this week: the first looks at Java 8 and Spring 4 adoption. ALSO, much, much, much more importantly: HE MENTIONED THIS WEEK IN SPRING :D #WIN.
• Juergen also posted is one of my favorite in years, a brutally honest look at the Java EE 7 landscape and the depressing lack of (big-vendor) supported implementations options for production-supported Java EE containers. You know, the man has a point..
• The amazing Dr. Pollack (see above!) announced Spring XD 1.2 RC1. The new release is packed with lots of new stuff including an Apache Ambari plugin to package and deploy Spring XD into production, new analytics, new features and performance improvements for the Apache Kafka support, improved HA configuration for RabbitMQ, Sqoop metastore support, and a lot…

Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This week I'm in New York City in advance of QCon NYC next week talking to customers and working with the local Pivotal Labs team. If you're around be sure to say hi and let's talk code.

So, as usual, we've got a lot to cover so let's get to it.

1. Our pal Nicolas Frankel's put together an awesome post on modularizing configuration for integration testing with Spring

• Spring Cloud co-lead Spencer Gibb just announced that Spring Cloud Consul 1.0.0.M1 is now available
• Don't miss Jamie O’Meara's upcoming webinar on continuous integration with Jenkins, Spring and Cloud Foundry
• Check out Phil Dutson's upcoming webinar on moving .jsp and JSTL pages to Thymeleaf
• Spring Integration lead Gary Russell just announced Spring Integration 4.2M1 is now available
• check out the replay of Marten Deinum's awesome talk that looks at how to modernize legacy applications with Spring
• Janne Valkealahti just announced that Spring Statemachine 1.0.0.M2 has been released.
• our pal Eugen Paraschiv did an interesting …

Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! There is a lot to talk about, so let's get to it!

• First, the big news! Spring framework lead and OG Spring Guy Juergen Hoeller just announced that Spring framework 4.2 RC1 is now available! This new release includes lots of amazing new features so be sure to check it out! It includes anotation detection on Java 8 default methods, annotation-based application events, first-class annotation attibute aliases, nest path processing for direct field binding, data binding and conversion for JSR 354 (money and currency), Hibernate ORM 5.0 support (via JPA and natively), a STOMP client for use over TCP and WebSocket channels, Listenable/…

Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! As usual, we've got a lot to cover this week so let's get to it!

• the good Dr. Dave Syer is back it again with this seventh installment on how to better modularize the Angular.js client that talks to a backend Spring Security, Spring Boot, and Spring Security OAuth-powered service and with this eighth installment which looks at how to test that Angular.js application!
• Spring Security lead and all around amazing, test-driven dude, Rob Winch just announced Spring Test HtmlUnit 1.0.0.RC1 with a lot of new polish.
• Spring Batch lead Michael Minella just announced that Spring Batch 3.0.4, a maintenance release, is now available
• Spring Social lead Craig Walls just announced that two maintenance releases, Spring Social 1.1.2 and Spring Social 1.1.1…

Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This week, I'm in Chicago, IL, for the spectacular GOTO conference, Chicago edition. If you're in the Chicago area, ping me on Twitter (@starbuxman). Cloud Foundry Summit just wrapped today as 1500 people came together to talk about the community and the technology. Spring made a strong showing, even getting a general session shoutout from James Watters for Spring Boot passing 1 Million downloads in April.

Now, without further ado..

• Spring Tool Suite ninja Kris De Volder just announced the new support for editing .yml files in STS - this is particularly awesome if you're using Spring Boot!
• Spring IO lead and all-around mad-scientist Andy Wilkinson just released the Gradle dependency management plugin 0.5.1.RELEASE. This plugin brings the power of Maven's dependencyManagement mechanism to Gradle and makes it easy to create consistent builds.
• Spring Integration lead Gary Russell just released Spring AMQP 1.4.5 and 1.5.0-M1. The 1.5 series introduces class-level @RabbitListener annotations (not just method-level ones), auto-declared queues and bindings, configurable exchange/routing Key for replies, a RabbitManagementTemplate…

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Warning: if you're a seasoned developer, than this may not be the post you're looking for. Keep reading, anyway. I'll bet you know some developers who are taking their first…