Spring Tips: JDBC

Engineering | Josh Long | May 29, 2018 | ...

speaker: Josh Long

Hi Spring fans! In this installment of Spring Tips we look at the Spring support for the Java Database Connectivity (JDBC) API. Spring's support for JDBC is one of many reasons a lot of people first started using Spring 15+ years ago! If you aren't committed to a full-blown ORM and/or want to leverage the full power of JDBC, then this video is for you!

This Week in Spring - May 29th, 2018

Engineering | Josh Long | May 29, 2018 | ...

Hi Spring fans and welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! I finished last week in Barcelona, Spain, for the epic Spring IO 2018 event (were you there? why not? YOU SHOULD BE IT'S AMAZING!) and now I'm in San Francisco enjoying a restive 48 hours and soon I'll be off to sunny Saint Louis for the epic Spring One Tour St. Louis event starting the 30th then it's off to splendid Singapore for the Voxxed Singapore event. If you're in either region, reach out! I'd love to heard and/or see you!

Anyway, as usual, we've got a ton to cover so let's get to it!

Spring Tips: Apache Camel

Engineering | Josh Long | May 23, 2018 | ...

speaker: Josh Long (@starbuxman)

Hi Spring fans! In this installment we look at the Apache Camel enterprise integration framework, its numerous components, its Java DSL, support for observability, its integration with Spring Boot and the larger Spring ecosystem.

This Week in Spring - May 22nd, 2018

Engineering | Josh Long | May 22, 2018 | ...

Hi Spring fans! Whew! What a wild week it's been! I landed in Kiev, Ukraine, last Thursday to present at the epic JEEConf in beautiful Kiev. Then, this weekend it was off to Dublin, Ireland and Belfast, North Ireland, where I had the privilege of speaking to some of the amazing Pivotal customers (like Liberty). I concluded today here in Belfast and tomorrow it's off to bella Barcelona, Spain for the Spring I/O conference.

As usual, it's been a crazy awesome week in the Spring community so without further ado let's get to it!

Enjoy quality time with the Spring and Reactor communities at SpringOne Platform

Engineering | Stephane Maldini | May 21, 2018 | ...

Hey there,

It feels like SpringOne Platform was only yesterday, and I'm so excited by what's coming in September! It’s yet another excuse to chat, exchange, share, have a drink, and enjoy quality time with the Spring and Reactor communities, contributors and users alike.

I'll tell you a secret: as the project Reactor lead, this is one of my favorite places to capture amazing feedback and translate it into pull requests. I like spending hours replaying the software history with folks, talking about efficient distributed systems (or "microservices") because--Bingo! Reactive is all about these…

This Week in Spring - May 15th, 2018

Engineering | Josh Long | May 15, 2018 | ...

Hi Spring fans and welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! I just returned from a month of travel on Saturday, and on Sunday I was off to Denver, CO, for the epic SpringOne Tour Denver show. Now, I'm off to begin a 10 day tour of Kyiv, Ukraine (JEEConf); Dublin, Ireland and Belfast, Northern Ireland; and Barcelona, Spain (Spring I/O). I hope to see you around! (@starbuxman)

We've got a ton of good stuff to look at today so let's get to it!

New tutorial about Spring Boot and Kotlin

For 2 years, we have introduced Kotlin support in Spring projects (Framework, Boot, Data) and published various blog posts, sample projects, slides and documentation. Today, we are publishing an opinionated tutorial intended to summarize in a single place how to build a Spring Boot web application in Kotlin leveraging these features and following best practices: https://spring.io/guides/tutorials/spring-boot-kotlin/

Topics covered are:

  • How to create a Spring Boot 2 project in Kotlin
  • Understanding the build configuration
  • Testing with JUnit 5: integration tests, @WebMvcTest + mocking
  • Persistence with JPA and data classes
  • Creating your own extensions
  • Rendering web pages with Mustache
  • HTTP API with @RestController
  • Configuration properties

Spring Project Vulnerability Reports Published

Engineering | Rossen Stoyanchev | May 09, 2018 | ...

The following CVEs have been published today:

Please, review the information in the CVE reports and upgrade immediately.

Spring Boot Users: Spring Boot 2.0.2 and 1.5.13, released earlier today, contain the fixes for the above vulnerabilities.

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