Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! In a few short weeks we'll be in 2015! Will that be exciting? Of course. But this week's pretty exciting as well! So much good stuff this week.

• Spring Boot 1.2.0 is here! So many new features for Java EE (Servlet 3.1-baseline, JTA, JMS and JNDI support) and improved Jackson output, Actuator endpoints, CLI updates and performance. Spring Cloud is already tracking 1.2 and will be based on this soon, as well. Get the bits.

• Spring Boot 1.1.10 is now available with numerous fixes.

• Resident mad-scientist Andy Wilkinson just announced the latest cut of the Spring IO platform library. There are lots of things of note, but in particular it's added support for Spring Integration Flow 1.0, Spring Integration Java DSL 1.0, and Spring Integration Splunk 1.1 and updated revisions for several projects besides.

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Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! In a few short weeks we'll be in 2015! Will that be exciting? Of course. But this week's pretty exciting as well! So much good stuff this week.

• Spring Boot 1.2.0 is here! So many new features for Java EE (Servlet 3.1-baseline, JTA, JMS and JNDI support) and improved Jackson output, Actuator endpoints, CLI updates and performance. Spring Cloud is already tracking 1.2 and will be based on this soon, as well. Get the bits.

• Spring Boot 1.1.10 is now available with numerous fixes.

• Resident mad-scientist Andy Wilkinson just announced the latest cut of the Spring IO platform library. There are lots of things of note, but in particular it's added support for Spring Integration Flow 1.0, Spring Integration Java DSL 1.0, and Spring Integration Splunk 1.1 and updated revisions for several projects besides.

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Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This week I'm at the Rich Web Experience in Ft. Lauderdale, FL, joining my pal Matt Stine for a workshop on building microservices with Spring Boot, Spring Cloud and Cloud Foundry.

So, without further ado, let's get to it:

• Dr. Dave Syer just announced the M3 release of Spring Cloud, complete with loads of cool stuff, including a smarter Ribbon-enabled load-balancing RestTemplate, a RabbitMQ-based aggregator for Hystrix Metrics based on Turbine 2, Spring Cloud for AWS support, and much more
• Spring ninja Sebastien Deleuze just announced some of the amazing new features in Spring's Jackson support. My favorite? JSON + XML marshalling with dynamic views. Views are a logical subset of attributes from a JSON structure that may be rendered dynamically.
• Check out Spring Roo 1.3.1 and includes bug-fixes for reverse engineering and third party addon installations. Thanks, community and Disid in particular for the updates!
• Spring and Groovy & Grails Tool Suite lead Martin Lippert just announced versions 3.6.3. The new release includes updated Spring Integration visualizations, a installed-by-default Cloud Foundry plugin and more. Check it out!
• Want to learn about the Spring Integration Java configuration DSL in terms of a working, line-by-line example? Check out this post by Java configuration DSL lead Artem Bilan and if you want to see how it works on JDK 7 or earlier, check out this post.
• Spring Data lead Oliver Gierke just announced the first milestone of the next Spring Data release train, Spring Data Fowler.
• The replay from the good Dr. David Syer's SpringOne2GX 2014 talk on security for microservices is now available online.
• Additionally, check out Dr. Syer and Spencer Gibb's talk introducing Spring Cloud to the world at SpringOne2GX 2014!
• Check out the SpringOne2GX 2014 replay of Reactor project ninjas Jon Brisbin and Stephane Maldini's talk: Building Reactive applications with Reactor and the Reactive Streams standard
• Join Spring Integration project-lead Gary Russell for a not-to-be-missed webinar on January 27th that introduces the just-released Spring Integration Java configuration DSL!
• You know what they say: go grid or go home! Or something like that…​ anyway, definitely check out my pal Luke Shannon's upcoming webinar on building scalable data applications with Spring Data Gemfire
• Adao Feliz put together a nice post on using Spring Boot and Docker. It's pretty straightforward, so check it out!
• The All and Sundry blog has a nice post on how to consume linked resources using Spring's RestTemplate.
• Check out the early bits for the next-gen Cloud Foundry built from the ground up on the Go language and supports Docker as a first-class citizen. If you know how to use Vagrant, it's dead simple to get a full working Cloud Foundry cloud running on your laptop if you follow these instructions. Do try it out and let us know!

Egads! Can you believe it's already almost the end of the year? Time has been screaming fast! It's the week of Thanksgiving for those of us in the United States. This is a wonderful time of year to sit back, find a nice Spring IO guide or blog to read, and then build something awesome.. oh, and it's an ideal time to spend in the company of friends and family and to reflect on those and that for which we're grateful. I'm sure I speak for the Spring team and Pivotal at large when I say that we're grateful for you, our inspiring community, users and customers.

But if you do want something to read…

In this blog, I want to look at - and demonstrate - some of the many new features in Spring Boot 1.2 that make the lives of those coming from, or otherwise building on, Java EE easier.

It's worth mentioning that a lot of this support has been possible with Spring before, of course, but now with Spring Boot 1.2, it's just so darned easy!

First, here's an example program with notes after.

package demo;

import org.glassfish.jersey.jackson.JacksonFeature;
import org.glassfish.jersey.server.ResourceConfig;
import org.springframework.boot.SpringApplication;
import org.springframework.boot…

Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This week I'm in sunny Sofia, Bulgaria for the Java2Days software conference. As usual, this show is way too much fun and the crowd's bigger and better than ever!

1. Spring Boot 1.2.0 RC1 is now available! This release moves embedded Servlet containers to Tomcat 8 or Jetty 9, adds a new @SpringBootApplication annotation, adds JavaMail support, and registers additional Spring Boot actuator support
2. Spring Session 1.0.0.RC1 is here with loads of features!
3. Speaking of using Spring with ZeroTurnaround, join ZeroTurnaround's Adam Koblentz and I on Nov 20th as we look at using JRebel and Spring Boot to deliver a one-two developer productivity punch without equal
4. Want to learn more about the Reactor project and the role of asych I/O in microservices? Check out the upcoming Reactor webinar…

Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This week I'm back in Silicon Valley, talking to developers at a handful of large technology-driven companies about taking their first steps with a cloud-native architecture. Interesting feedback, as ever! This week I'll be doing a meetup here in the bay area on building Bootiful microservices with Spring Cloud. Next week, I look forward to seeing people at Java2Days in Sofia, Bulgaria! C'ya there!

1. Spring Integration lead Gary Russell has just announced Spring Integration 4.1.0 and Spring AMQP 1.4.0 final are now available!

• Spring Security OAuth 2.0.4.RELEASE Available Now. The new release contains a few nice additions and a few bug fixes, making it a recommended, easy upgrade.
• Spring lead Juergen Hoeller just announced the availability of Spring Framework 4.1.2, accompanied by 4.0.8 and 3.2.12 maintenance releases.
• I'll be doing a webinar with ZeroTurnaround's Adam Koblentz introducing how to use Spring (and Spring Boot in particular) and JRebel 6…

Sometimes, teh Twitterz is an amazing place. Just last week I spent some time helping clarify the behavior of Spring's @Qualifier annotation, which is both older than JSR 330 and offers a richer superset of JSR 330's @Qualifier annotation. These misguided few seemed to be under the impression that Spring's annotation didn't offer the same degree of type-safety as the JSR 330 annotation. I don't know if it's because they simply hadn't read up on the support (which is fairly new, since it's only been around since 2007), or if it's because they work for companies that make their money if you…

Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This week I'm on the road talking to enthusiastic Spring developers in Casablanca, Morocco at the JMaghreb conference and then it's off to London (again!) for the amazing Spring eXchange. If you're at either, be sure to say hi!

• Artem Bilan, Spring Integration ninja and a personal hero of mine, has just announced the Spring Integration RC1 release. I don't know if you've seen the Java configuration DSL, but it makes writing complex integration flows a breeze! It takes advantage of Java 8's lamba support. Check it out! Remember, microservices aren't exclusively REST centric. If you're trying to build a microservice and expose it over any other mechanism, I'd start with Spring Integration.
• Spring ninja Thomas Risberg just announced Spring for Hadoop 2.0.3…

Hello from New York City! Tonight I'll be addressing the Cloud Foundry User Group on how to build Spring Boot and Spring Cloud-based microservices that run on Cloud Foundry - I hope you'll join us! And if you're in Boston, then come hang out when I give the same talk there on Thursday!

• Spring Social lead and all around Spring ninja Craig Walls announced the Spring Sync project and then wrote up a nice introduction to it, which - this is taken from the post because it's perfectly stated there - addresses efficient communication between client applications and Spring backends by employing patch-based exchanges. So, basically, the one piece of the pie (after basic REST, HATEOAS and hypermedia, OAuth and security in general, all of which Spring supports capably and in a first-class way) missing in client/server communication (like REST) is now here! If you read one…