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 2nd, 2011

Engineering | August 03, 2011 | ...
This post explain's one architect's reasoning. Are you fleeing from CDI and JavaEE6, and moving your application to Spring? Or, simply want to reuse code from an existing CDI application, in particular CDI's decorators? Then check out this post for an approach to reuse CDI's decorator's inside of Spring. This support is limited in scope, of course, but it's one less thing you'd have to work on when moving to Spring. An ideal migration will take advantage of the far more robust AOP support available in Spring itself.

This week in Spring: July 26th, 2011

Engineering | July 26, 2011 | ...
It's been a long road, but it's great to see this powerful framework reach 1.0 GA. Check it out! Users of Tapestry's templates as well as JSF's Facelets will see a lot to like in this view template technology - check it out!

Spring Integration 2.0.5 Released

Releases | July 20, 2011 | ...
Dear Spring Community, I am pleased to announce the release Spring Integration, 2.0.5. This release addresses 48 issues of which roughly half were bugs and half were improvements. For details see: Downloads | JavaDocs | Reference Documentation | Changelog

This week in Spring: July 12th, 2011

Engineering | July 13, 2011 | ...
Welcome back to another installment of "This Week in Spring." Today saw a new sunrise, and - more importantly - the release of vSphere 5, the next step in cloud infrastructure! My head's still buzzing after the excitement that accompanied this morning's launch. This - and the recent release of vFabric 5 - represent the next stage in cloud innovation, and a huge part of taking your applications to production, and to the cloud, with Spring.

This week in Spring: June 28th, 2011

Engineering | June 29, 2011 | ...
Lots of great stuff this week, as usual. When we compile this list, we trawl the internet looking for interesting stuff and try to bring it to you, digest style, in this weekly roundup. Some of the resources that we commonly check are Twitter, the SpringSource blogs, CloudFoundry.org, and Tomcat Expert, We try to not miss anything, but we might. If you know of something that we've missed or think should be included, don't hesitate to ping your humble editors with any suggestions.

Spring AMQP for Java 1.0 RC2

Releases | June 27, 2011 | ...
We are pleased to announce that Spring AMQP for Java 1.0 RC2 is now available. In addition to a few bug fixes, this release provides the following: Since this is intended to be our final pre-GA release, please take some time to try it out. In fact if you have a chance, really try to push the limits so that we know we're ready for prime time. Thanks! The Spring AMQP Team

This week in Spring: June 21st, 2011

Engineering | June 22, 2011 | ...
Welcome back to yet another This Week in Spring. SpringSource is out in full force at JAX San Jose this week and we will be at OSCON, in July. These events are great avenues for us to connect with the userbase. As usual, we've got a nice complement of stuff to cover this week, so let's get to it! Spring Data JPA (formerly, "Hades"), RC1 has just been released! It features, among other things, improved repository interface programming model (transactions at implementation, no need to extend JpaRepository anymore), improved parameter binding for created queries, performance improvement in…

This week in Spring: June 14th, 2011

Engineering | June 14, 2011 | ...
Spring 3.1 M2 represents a marked improvement in core Spring, as well as Spring MVC! Rossen Stoyanchev chimes in to introduce the numerous (truly, you'll need to read the detailed blog to get an idea - I won't even bother trying to enumerate them all here!) new features in Spring MVC 3.1 M2, including XML-free web applications on Servlet 3.0 containers. Check it out!

This week in Spring: June 7th, 2011

Engineering | June 08, 2011 | ...
Mark Fisher and Ramnivas Laddad's webinar Spring From Zero to Cloud in 60 Minutes is available online. This webinar is a breakneck-speed tour of some of the Spring, Spring Roo and Grails support on CloudFoundry. Check it out! Before you start watching, however, quickly signup at CloudFoundry.com to get access to the public, free-beta cloud service. If you want to checkout the code and learn more, check out CloudFoundry.org.

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