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 - August 18, 2015

Engineering | August 19, 2015 | ...
Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! As usual, we've got a lot to cover so let's get to it! This week I'm back in São Paulo, Brazil, to visit customers, then it's off to Rio for QCon Rio! If you're in either city, message me on Twitter and let's grab a coffee! Today, Pivotal CEO Paul Maritz stepped down [and welcomed Pivotal Labs founder Rob Mee as the new CEO. There's a post by Paul and by Rob. Thank you, Paul, and welcome Rob! the amazing Scott Frederick just announced the general availability of Spring Cloud Connectors 1.2.0! - check this out! Spring ninja Stéphane…

This Week in Spring - August 11, 2015

Engineering | August 12, 2015 | ...
Welcome to another installation of This Week in Spring! As usual, we've got a lot to cover so let's get to it! Spring ninja Stephane Nicoll just announced Spring Boot 1.3.0.M3, chock full of great features including HTTP session persistence, JMS and AMQP improvements, logging improvements, and auto-configurations for the H2 Database console and embedded MongoDB. Spring Batch lead Michael Minella just announced Spring Batch 3.0.5 Check out this cool look at using Spring Boot to process Twitter feeds with Neo4j check out this interesting Chinese-language post on using .yml with Spring Boot Disid…

This Week in Spring - August 4th, 2015

Engineering | August 04, 2015 | ...
Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This week I'm in Washington D.C., delivering some cloud-native realtalk at the Agile 2015 conference with my pal Andrew Clay Shafer then it's off to Denver, CO, again to speak to customers! If you're in either area, say hi! We're fast approaching SpringOne2GX 2015! Things are getting exciting around here as the team delivers more and more amazing bits! The weeks to come, leading into SpringOne2GX, are my favorite time of the year. Watch this space for new releases aplenty! The biggest announcement, this week, of course, is the General…

This Week in Spring - July 28, 2015

Engineering | July 29, 2015 | ...
Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! We've got a lot to cover so let's get to it! Spring Data lead Oliver Gierke just announced Spring Data SR2 which includes 40 issues fixed and includes an important update to the support for JTA 1.2's @Transactional Spring Security lead Rob Winch has just announced Spring Security Kerberos 1.0.1 which includes Spring Security 4 and LDAP 2.0 support, as well as a fix for an issue. Spring Security lead Rob Winch doesn't sleep so he also just announced Spring Security 3.2.8 Not resting on his laurels, Spring Security lead Rob Winch also…

This Week in Spring - July 14th 2015

Engineering | July 14, 2015 | ...
Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This week in I'm in Shanghai, China and Hangzhou, China and Shenzhen, China, talking to some of the world's largest websites (of the same scale of Netflix!) about their use of Spring Boot and Spring Cloud. (More on that later!) Anyway, without further ado.. Paul Chapman put together a nice walkthrough Spring Cloud today. Way to go Paul! Andy Wilkinson just announced the Spring IO Platform BOM 1.1.3 has been released Spring Boot 1.3M2 - along with new support for JOOQ, /flyway and /liquibase Actuator endpoints, ANSI colored banner.txt, and…

This Week in Spring - July 7th, 2015

Engineering | July 07, 2015 | ...
Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! As usual, we've got a lot to cover so let's get to it! This week I'll be in Shanghai, China, talking to some customers (say hi on Twitter!) and then it's off to Shenzhen, China, where I'll be giving a keynote at the ArchSummit conference. Spring Integraton lead Gary Russell has just announced Spring Integration 4.2 and 4.1.6 are now available. The new release includes support for Apache Zookeeper, Java 8 CompletableFutures, (S)FTP -streams, and several performance improvements. Spring Boot co-lead Phil Webb has just announced Spring Boot…

This Week in Spring - June 30th, 2015

Engineering | June 30, 2015 | ...
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…

This Week in Spring - June 23, 2015

Engineering | June 23, 2015 | ...
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…

This Week in Spring - June 16th, 2015

Engineering | June 17, 2015 | ...
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…

Introducing Spring Social Evernote

Engineering | June 15, 2015 | ...
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…

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