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HI Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! I’ve just returned from Lima, Peru, for JConf Peru, and then today finished speaking at the SpringOne Tour Philadelphia event. Now, I’m off to Portland, OR, for the epic OSCON show. As usual, we’ve got tons to cover so let’s get to it!

• Spring Tools 4.3.1 released
• In last week’s installment of A Bootiful Podcast, I interview Mr. REST / HATEOAS, Mike Amundsen, on APIs, HTTP, REST and more
• This is an interesting post on how Orange makes use of Cloud Foundry
• Check out this resolution for those using Spring Cloud Gateway and experiencing issues doing a retry POST
• Check out the RSocket YouTube channel
• Have you registered for SpringOne Platform 2019? Do it
• This is amazing - a new reactive Spring Data Neo4J implementation is coming!
• Check this out - there’s now a Kubernetes-ready distribution of RabbitMQ. Now it’s cloud-native!
• I love the new Microsoft Azure API development guidelines which encourage the use of Project Reactor to build elegant, asynchronous, reactive APIs
• Here’s a nice post by JHipster lead and Azure Developer Advocate Julien Dubois on going fully reactive with Spring Webflux and the new CosmosDB API v3

Dear Spring Community,

I am happy to announce the 4.3.1 release of the Spring Tools 4 for Eclipse, Visual Studio Code, and Theia.

Highlights from this release include:

• (all language servers) performance: further improvements to the language server startup time
• (Spring Boot) fixed: wrong error markers in properties files (#314)
• (VS Code) fixed: vscode goto definition error with lsp (#309)
• (Eclipse) fixed: STS4 can now be installed again into an existing Eclipse install when running on JDK8
• (Eclipse) fixed: deadlock when starting up the Spring Boot language server for workspaces with many projects
• (Eclipse) fixed: cannot launch apps in boot dashboard anymore when using early builds of Eclipse 2019-09 (4.13)
• (Eclipse) improved, but not completely fixed yet: freeze when opening pom.xml file - if you still experience slowness here, please apply the workaround as documented in the issues comment (comment on #314)

Hi Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of a Bootiful Podcast! This week Josh Long (@starbuxman) talks to “Mr. REST” Mike Amundsen (@mamund) to talk about APIs, Microservices, HATEOAS, HTTP and much more!

• Mike on Twitter (@mamund)

Hi Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! I’ve just returned from Medellín, Columbia, yesterday, and am now in sunny Chicago for the epic SpringOne Tour Chicago event. And tomorrow, it’s off to Lima, Peru. It’s figuring to be quite a week!

As usual, we’ve got a lot to get to so let’s do!

• Spring Cloud Data Flow 2.2.0.M1 Released
• Hi Spring fans! In last week’s extra special A Bootiful Podcast, I interview friend and teacher-extraordinairre, the one, the only, the inimitable, the amazing Dr. Venkat Subramaniam on Kotlin, the future of Java, Spring, open-source, being productive and awesome, and so much more.
• Explore a newly-generated project on start.spring.io
• Spring Cloud Hoxton.M1 is available.
• Spring Boot for Apache Geode & Pivotal GemFire 1.1.0.M3 Released!
• I love seeing that DICKS sporting-goods is experiencing such great success with Pivotal Cloud Foundry
• I dig the new Source{d} release; seems like an interesting option to enable oversight over the entire Software Defined Lifecycle
• Have you booked your tickets to SpringOne Platform in Austin this year?
• https://twitter.com/springcloud/status/1148363965833056257
• Nice post introducing Application Integration with Apache Camel in terms of Spring Boot, of course.
• Rohit Kelapure has a nice post on what it takes to transform an application to a modern cloud-native application
• Check out this great talk by ING on their use of Spring Boot and Kafka

The Spring Cloud Data Flow team is pleased to announce the milestone release 2.2.0.M1.

Along with some enhancements and bug fixes, here are some of the highlights of the release:

Metrics for Tasks
Metrics and monitoring continue to be one of the important themes for Spring Cloud Data Flow. Building upon the InfluxDB integration that we have for streams, in 2.2, we are adding support for Tasks, too. The core of the Micrometer integration landed in Spring Cloud Task’s 2.2.0 release-line, which by the way is a requirement if you are going to try out the Task-metrics and the SCDF integration.

Hi, Spring fans! Happy 4th to those of you who celebrate. In today’s episode, I talk to the man, the myth, the legend, the good Dr. Venkat Subramaniam on Kotlin, the future of Java, Spring, open-source, being productive and awesome, and so much more.

• Dr. Subramaniam on Twitter (@venkat_s)
• a tweet asking that whatever recording I do with Dr. Subramaniam for the Bootiful Podcast be longer than an hour (wish granted!)
• The image from today’s episode comes from a joint-talk that the good Dr. Subramaniam and I did in Atlanta, GA for the epic Devnexus conference. I am using the photo from Matt Raible’s tweet
• Dr. Subramaniam’s new book, Programming Kotlin

Introducing the new feature on start.spring.io: Explore the project.
With this, you can now take a peek at the generated project files without having to actually download it, unzip it, etc.

A lot of developers requested this feature, because they’d like to compare with another project, or upgrade an existing application. We’d like to explore those possibilities more in the future, so send your feedback our way!

Explore the project:

• Depending on the project, the pom.xml / build.gradle / build.gradle.kts will be shown by default
• Highlighting code (1), preview markdown
• Copy and download a file

On behalf of the community, I am pleased to announce that Milestone 1 (M1) of the Spring Cloud Hoxton Release Train is available today. The release can be found in Spring Milestone repository. You can check out the Hoxton release notes for more information.

Notable Changes in the Hoxton Release Train

This milestone release is compatible with Spring Boot 2.2.0.M4.

Spring Cloud Gateway

Spring Cloud Gateway has added support for RSocket. Look for more in an upcoming blog post.

Spring Cloud Contract

Gradle support has been updated to 5.5, and Groovy to version 2.5. A major refactoring has happened, simplifying and rewriting to Java where possible.

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This week I’m sunny summer-time San Francisco indulging in a little downtime. Last week was a doozy! I visited Tampa, Flordia; Paris, France; and finally Santiago, Dominican Republic. Later this week, after the 4th of July holiday here in the States, I’ll head on over to Medellin, Columbia for JConf Columbia; Chicago, Illinois for the epic SpringOne Tour Chicago event; and then Lima, Peru for the JConf Peru event.

I’m so looking forward to a few weeks of fun talking to amazing developers around the globe. If you’re around, as usual, don’t hesitate to reach out to me on @starbuxman on Twitter.