Hi Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This week I am in Casablanca, Morocco for the amazing Devoxx Morocco event talking to developers in the hub of North Africa.

Can you believe it's already the middle of November? And can you believe we are less than a month away from the amazing SpringOne Platform event in San Francisco, CA? I hope you're going!

Now, without further ado, let's get to it.

• Spring messaging ninja Oleg Zhurakousky just announced Spring Cloud Stream Elmhurst.M3 / 2.0.0.M3. The new release improves content-type resolution, support for Apache Kafka 0.11+, and introduces a good deal of nice samples.
• Spring Data Geode/GemFire lead John Blum just announced Spring Data Geode / GemFire 2.0.0.RC1. The new release updates dependencies, builds on Java 8 (introducing Java 8 types and lambdas), and introduces new samples.
• In this last week's installment of Spring Tips I revisit Kotlin and Spring…

We are pleased to announce the 2.0.0.M3 release of the Spring Cloud Stream Elmhurst release train.

Spring Cloud Stream Elmhurst 2.0.0.M3 is available for use in the Spring Milestone repository. The release notes include relevant information about version compatibility with Spring Boot, Spring Cloud, Spring AMQP, and Spring for Apache Kafka.

The following sections list new features and improvements included in this release:

Improved Content Type Resolution

The content-type resolution has been improved and consolidated in the channel interceptors, which makes it configurable for situations that require application-level customizations. Also, based on the community feedback, we now set the default content-type as application/json. However, it is still possible to override it via BindingProperties or it can be passed with the Message…

Speaker: Josh Long

Hi Spring fans! In this installment of Spring Tips we'll revisit Kotlin, leveraging more DSLs in both the Kotlin and Spring ecosystem.

Hi Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This week I'm in Antwerp, Belgium for the amazing Devoxx (Belgium) event. I'm co-presenting with my friends Matt Raible and Mark Heckler on progressive web applications and reactive Spring. I'll be joined by a lot of Pivotal and Spring teammates here so make sure to check the schedule.

Later this week I'll be doing a joint webinar - Grails for the Spring Boot Developer - with Grails co-founder Jeff Scott Brown.

Then, it's off to Casablanca, Morocco, for the Devoxx MA event.

If you're at either event, don't hesitate to say hi…

On behalf of the Spring and Apache Geode/Pivotal GemFire communities, I am pleased to announce the release of Spring Session Data Geode and Spring Session Data GemFire 2.0.0.RC1 releases.

Both releases build on:

1. Spring Framework 5.0.1.RELEASE

2. Spring Security 2.0.0.RC1

3. Spring Data Kay-RC1

4. Spring Session core 2.0.0.RC1

5. Spring Boot 2.0.0.M5

The artifacts can be acquired from Spring libs-milestone:

Maven

<repositories>
  <repository>
    <id>spring-libs-milestone</id>
    <url>https://repo.spring.io/libs-milestone</url>
  </repository>
</repositories>

<dependencies>
  <dependency…

Speaker: Josh Long

Hi Spring fans! In this installment of Spring Tips we'll look at how to use the new old framework you've probably never heard of, Spring Shell! Spring Shell supports the creation of interactive shell-based applications.

Hi Spring fans and welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This week I'm in San Francisco for the first, and sure-to-be-amazing, Kotlin Conf 2017. I'll be talking about Spring Boot and Kotlin, and I hope you'll join me if you're around.

We've got a lot to cover this week so let's get to it!

• Spring Batch lead Michael Minella just announced Spring Batch 4.0.0.M5 which includes, among other things, an ItemProcessor implementation that supports Java 8 Function implementations, updated documentation and much more.
• Spring Framework lead Juergen Hoeller announced Spring Framework 5.0.1 which includes a few bug fixes which in turn pick up fixes in Reactor Netty and welcome performance improvements in AspectJ 1.8.12.
• Last week, in another installment of Spring Tips, I looked at HTTP based contracts with Spring Cloud Contract.
• Spring Cloud co-founder Spencer Gibb announced the first release candidate to Spring Cloud Edgware. There are some changes to not in the artifact names for various starters. Spring Cloud Edgware has a lot of new features…

Greetings Spring community,

Spring Web Services has released 3.0.0 for general availability as well as released a minor patch, 2.4.2.RELEASE.

As stated in the previous blog post, the 2.x series will be maintained as long as Spring Framework 4.x is supported, yet any new work will be conducted on the master branch.

The links below include related tickets.

2.4.2 Release Notes | 2.4.2 Documentation.

3.0.0.RELEASE Release Notes | 3.0.0.RELEASE Documentation.

• 3.0.0.RELEASE:

  • Better handling of large attachments to avoid OutOfMemory exceptions.

  • Wss4jSecurityInterceptor enhancements including SAML callbacks

  • SpringSecurityPasswordValidationCallbackHandler improvement to avoid NPE from lack of a logged-in user

  • Fixes to SOAP 1.1/SOAP 1.2 message header handling

  • Fix content-type for Axiom SOAP 1.2

  • Upgrade to latest versions of AspectJ

  • Support for up-and-coming Axiom 1.3 (community contributor who wants to ensure Spring WS and Axiom 1.3 work together).

• 2.4.2.RELEASE:

  • Backporting of the same SpringSecurityPasswordValidationCallbackHandler fix

  • Accidentally moved wss4j 2.x version too far forward to ensure stable compatibility. If you wish to use the very latest wss4j, you must move to the 3.0 version.

  …

Greetings Spring Community and Pivotal GemFire/Apache Geode Users-

One question I constantly get asked is, "What is the difference between Spring Data GemFire and Spring Data Geode?"

Now that Spring Data Geode is part of the Spring Data Release Train, beginning with Kay (see the official release announcement for more details), the timing is finally right to answer this question in an open forum.

To help answer this question, I set 2 simple objectives for both Spring Data GemFire and Spring Data Geode (collectively known as SDG^2 now):

1. First, and most importantly, allow users to seamlessly interchange Spring Data Geode with Spring Data GemFire, and vice versa.

2. Next, help users migrate their Spring Boot, Pivotal GemFire or Apache Geode based applications from their local development environment to a managed environment, like Pivotal CloudFoundry, with little to no code changes at all.

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