Hi Spring fans and welcome to This Week in Spring from the premier JVM-language event SpringOne Platform 2017! There is a massive amount of stuff to cover, especially in light of SpringOne Platform, so let's get to it!

• Spring Cloud co-founder Spencer Gibb just announced Spring Cloud Finchley M5
• Spring Tools lead Martin Lippert just announced the first previews of Spring Tool Suite 4 and the new IDE-agnostic language servers. Also, I did a special (and early!) Spring Tip that looked at these topics.
• Spring Batch lead Michael Minella just announced Spring Batch 4.0.0
• Dr. Dave Syer has updated the Spring Security and Angular_ and Spring Boot and OAuth tutorials
• Spring ninja Greg Turnquist just announced Spring Session updates for Core, MongoDB, and Apache Geode.
• Spring Cloud Data Flow lead and co-founder Dr. Mark Pollack just announced Spring Cloud Data Flow 1.3.0.M3…

Speaker: Josh Long

Hi Spring fans! In this Spring Tips, we'll look at Spring Tool Suite 4, new runtime feedback and the IDE-agnostic language servers that underpin all of it. I'm releasing this Spring Tips installment early, just in time SpringOne Platform 2017 and the big announcements of the day.

Greetings Spring community,

In preparation for the soon-to-be GA release, Spring Session, Spring Session MongoDB, and Spring Session for Apache Geode and Pivotal GemFire have all aligned to versions 2.0.0.RC2 for this release.

In case you missed it, this is what’s included with each of the modules:

• Core - includes support for Redis, JDBC, and Hazelcast

• MongoDB - both traditional blocking as well as reactive support for MongoDB

• Apache Geode - support for Apache Geode as well as Pivotal GemFire (including the PCC service with the SSC extension on PCF)

In this version, Spring Session has…

We are pleased to announce the 1.3.0.M3 release of the Spring Cloud Data Flow for Cloud Foundry.

The Getting Started Guide is the best place to start kicking the tires.

Release Highlights

Stream updates, a JavaDSL, and the complete port of the UI to the Angular 4.0 stack are some of the main highlights. More information on release highlights can be found in the release blog for the core Data Flow project.

Of note for the Cloud Foundry server is an upgrade to v2.23.0 of the cf-java client library and setting the default health check to be http instead of port. You can now also specify the…

Speaker: Josh Long

Hi Spring fans! In this installment of Spring Tips we'll look at the new API gateway project, Spring Cloud Gateway, to support edge service requirements like rate limiting, circuit breakers, proxying, and more.

In this article, we will dive in how to bind a Spring application to HashiCorp’s Vault service broker on Cloud Foundry.

Spring Boot provides a lot of autoconfiguration and external binding features, some of which are relevant to Cloud Foundry, and many of which are not. Spring Cloud Connectors is a library that you can use in your application if you want to create your own components programmatically, but it doesn’t do anything “magical” by itself.

Spring Cloud Connectors lays the foundation for connectors that integrate with various Cloud services. It has ships components that allow correct…

Hi Spring fans and welcome to another installation of This Week in Spring! This week I'm in San Francisco and then off to Austin, TX for the epic G3 Summit. If you're around don't hesitate to say hi. Then, it's straight back to San Francisco for next week's premier agile, ops, apps and cloud-centric event worldwide, SpringOne Platform 2017. Do not miss this!

• In last week's installment of Spring Tips, I look at testing in Spring-based applications. Check it out!
• Spring Framework lead Juergen Hoeller delves deeper into our decision to end first-class JDK 6 support for Spring in this blog post.
• Spring Framework lead and Spring co-founder Juergen Hoeller just released Spring Framework 5.0.2 and 4.3.13. The new releases are recommended refinements. Of particular note, our Castor XML support has been deprecated, and we're effectively deprecating support for JDK 6.
• Spring Data lead Mark Paluch just announced Spring Data Ingalls SR9 and Spring Data Kay SR2…

It is about time: The official end of of commercial JDK 6 support is coming up soon, with Oracle declaring December 2018 and IBM declaring April 2018 as the end of their extended support.

From a Spring perspective, we take the opportunity to deemphasize JDK 6 support on our end. We'll keep tolerating a JDK 6 runtime in the entire Spring Framework 4.3.x line for all further maintenance releases. However, we won't make compromises for JDK 6 anymore, asking you to upgrade to JDK 7+ for fixes that we'd have to work around specifically for JDK 6 on our end.

Even for JDK 7, we expect a recent patch…

Speaker: Josh Long

Hi Spring fans! In this installment of Spring Tips we'll look at testing and test-driven development, in general, in terms of the Spring ecosystem.