Speakers: Sabby Anandan, Mark Fisher & Mark Pollack

Slides: https://speakerdeck.com/sabbyanandan/2015

Worried about Big Data and the challenges inherent in making a real application? You don’t have to worry anymore! Spring XD provides a one-stop shop solution that spans traditional enterprise to Big Data use cases - both batch and streaming. It's important to choose the right tool for each use-case, which is why Spring XD integrates with technologies such as Spark, Reactor and RxJava to demonstrate the flexibility and the unified programming model to support complex data computation use-cases. In this webinar, we'll show you how to develop data-driven use cases much faster than other big data solutions on the out of the box XD runtime.

Learn more about Spring XD: http://projects.spring.io/spring-xd

Learn more about Spring Integration: http://projects.spring.io/spring-integration

Learn more about Spring Batch: http://projects.spring.io/spring-batch

Learn more about Spring Data: http://projects.spring.io/spring-data

Original Author: Enrique Ruiz, Disid

As of STS 3.5.1 Spring Roo support and the Spring Roo runtime are installable from the dashboard rather than being directly included in STS.

With this post we'd like to introduce the Eclipse-based support for Spring Roo so you can take Roo's productivity to STS and you don't even have to leave the development environment! You can build a new application and deploy it to STS in just a few minutes.

We will go step-by-step in order to help you get started quickly:

1.Open your STS IDE.

2. Open STS dashboard.

3. Click on Extensions bottom tab and search Spring Roo.

4. Install Spring Roo (current production release)

5. Install Spring IDE - (Roo extension)

From here on you can just follow the steps of the installation wizard. Along the way you need to review and accept the license agreement and restart STS to finalize the installation.

6. After restarting STS you're ready to work with Spring Roo.

We hope you enjoy this new service. We'll continue to improve the Spring Roo support in future releases of course.

As always we very much value community feedback!

For more project specific information please see the Spring Roo Project Page | or see Spring Roo on GitHub

As always, you'll also find Roo on Twitter - either follow @SpringRoo or just include #SpringRoo in your tweets.

Stay tuned to Spring Roo news!

Recorded at SpringOne2GX 2014.

Speaker: Steve Pember

G&G Special Topics

Slides: http://www.slideshare.net/SpringCentral/reactive-grails

The natural tendency for application developers is to construct their code in a procedural, synchronous, monolithic pattern. Veteran developers know that this leads to error prone, unscalable, slow software - yet it is alarmingly prevalent. There have been several architectural patterns that have risen over the years which have attempted to mitigate this problem. One of the most popular has been Service Oriented Architecture, which involves breaking the monolithic application into a distributed system of several smaller services. In this talk, I argue that SOA is a decent start, but not nearly good enough. I will discuss the tenants of the Reactive Pattern and the importance of moving away from Monolithic to Reactive architectures. We will discuss the various Groovy-friendly technologies that allow us to build distributed, micro-service based applications and cover effective communication strategies between each service. We will see how being Reactive is the only viable architecture for large, efficient, scalable systems. If Reactive is new to you, this should be an excellent introduction.

Recorded at SpringOne2GX 2014.

Speaker: Sam Brannen, Swiftmind

Core Spring Track

Slides: http://www.slideshare.net/SpringCentral/testing-with-spring-framework-4x

The Spring Framework has undergone a lot of innovation in the 4.0 and 4.1 releases, and so has its testing support. Join Spring Test component lead Sam Brannen in this talk to discover what's new in Spring's testing support in 4.0 through 4.1. This talk will provide attendees an overview of what's been deprecated, what's changed, and what's been introduced in Spring's testing support over the last two years, with real life examples and tips for best practices. Highlights include using SocketUtils to scan for free TCP & UDP server ports, the ActiveProfilesResolver API, meta-annotation support for test annotations including attribute overrides, best practices with TestNG, using Groovy scripts to configure an ApplicationContext for integration tests, improvements to SQL script execution and embedded databases, the new TestContext framework bootstrap strategy, programmatic transaction management in tests, and more.

Recorded at SpringOne2GX 2014.

Speaker: Josh Long, Phil Webb

Slides: http://www.slideshare.net/SpringCentral/bootiful

Core Spring Track

Alright, so maybe "bootiful" won't ever work, but we tried, and it was worth it too because you're reading this. Spring Boot, the new convention-over-configuration centric framework from the Spring team at Pivotal, marries Spring's flexibility with conventional, common sense defaults to make application development not just fly, but pleasant! Join Spring developer advocate Josh Long and Spring Boot co-lead Phillip Webb for a look at what Spring Boot is, why it's turning heads, why you should consider it for your next application (REST, web, batch, big-data, integration, whatever!) and how to get started.

Recorded at SpringOne2GX 2014.

Speaker: Cédric Champeau

More Groovy Track

Slides: http://www.slideshare.net/SpringCentral/traits-design

Groovy 2.3 introduces the concept of traits in the language. Traits look like interfaces, but allow the developer to add both implementation and state into it. It introduces multiple inheritance in the language while avoiding the diamond problem. Traits will let you rethink the way you design APIs in Groovy, by favoriting composition of behaviors.

Recorded at SpringOne2GX 2014.

Speaker: Dan Woods, NetFlix

G&G Special Topics

Slides: http://www.slideshare.net/SpringCentral/4pieter-springone2gx2014ratpack

Ratpack is an asynchronous web framework for the JVM that was inspired by the simplistic nature of Ruby's Sinatra framework. Written in Java, optimized for Groovy and Java 8, Ratpack sports a high throughput, simplistic interface for rapid development of rich, real-time web applications.

Speaker: Andy Wilkinson

An API's documentation is a vital part of making it easy to understand and easy to use. RESTful APIs are no different. In this webinar we'll look at what should be included in your RESTful API's documentation and, just as importantly, what should be omitted. To illustrate this we'll look at some real-world examples of good and bad API documentation. We'll look at some of the problems and limitations of choosing a tool like Swagger to produce your API's documentation and conclude by looking at some alternatives that are better-suited to producing documentation that your users will love.

Learn more about Spring MVC http://projects.spring.io/spring-framework

Learn more about Spring REST Docs https://github.com/wilkinsona/spring-restdocs

Webinar: Introducing the Java DSL for Spring Integration

Speaker: Gary Russell

Slides: https://speakerdeck.com/garyrussell/spring-integration-java-dsl-a-deeper-dive

The Spring Integration JavaConfig and DSL extension provides a set of convenient Builders and a fluent API to configure Spring Integration message flows from Spring @Configuration classes. The Java DSL for Spring Integration is essentially a facade for Spring Integration. The DSL provides a simple way to embed Spring Integration Message Flows into your application using the fluent Builder pattern together with existing Java and Annotation configurations from Spring Framework and Spring Integration as well. Another useful tool to simplify configuration is Java 8 Lambdas.

Learn more about Spring Integration: http://projects.spring.io/spring-integration

Learn more about Spring XD: http://projects.spring.io/spring-xd

Recorded at SpringOne2GX 2014.

Speaker: Colin Harrington

Essential Grails Track

Slides: http://www.slideshare.net/SpringCentral/securing-yourgrailsapp2gx2014

Application security is not a concern that we can ignore. Vulnerabilities come from various angles, but it is important to stay aware and vigilant so we can recognize and thwart threats.