Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! Time sure is flying! We've got so much to get into this week. Can you believe we're staring down 2017? We've got so much to cover so let's get to it!

• I hope you'll join Axon-framework lead Allard Buijze and I tomorrow when we introduce how to build CQRS-centric applications with the Axon Framework and Spring Boot
• More SpringOne Platform 2016 talks are available, and if you're interested in how Spring and reactive programming are coming together you'll want to hear directly from Rossen about where the team is starting it's journey!
• Anyone that is working in microservices, should watch this amazing SpringOne Platform 2016 replay showing us how Oliver Gierke applies Domain Driven Design concepts to creating REST APIs
• be sure to check out this blog and the corresponding webinar from our very own Stephane Nicoll and Vaadin's Matti Tahvonen as they look at how to …

On behalf of the Spring and Apache Geode communities, I am extremely pleased and excited to announce the release of Spring Data for Apache Geode 1.0.0-incubating.

You can get the bits from Maven Central by including the following dependency in either your application Maven POM or Gradle build file...

Maven

<dependency>
  <groupId>org.springframework.data</groupId>
  <artifactId>spring-data-geode</artifactId>
  <version>1.0.0.INCUBATING-RELEASE</version>
</dependency>

Gradle

compile 'org.springframework.data:spring-data-geode:1.0.0.INCUBATING-RELEASE'

Including the spring-data-geode dependency will transitively pull in all required Apache Geode artifacts so you can start building Spring applications that use Apache Geode…

Speaker: Josh Long

Hi Spring fans! In this tip, we'll quickly look at how to build messaging-based microservices using Spring Cloud Stream

Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This week I'm in London, England for µCon, Antwerp, Belgium for Devoxx, and Malmö, Sweden for Oredev. If you're around, ping me and say hi.

• Spring Framework and Spring Boot ninja Stephane Nicoll just announced that Spring Framework 4.3.4, mostly bugfixes, is available now.
• Spring Security ninja Joe Grandja just announced Spring Security OAuth 2.0.12 which is primarily bugfixes and paves the way for some nice new features.
• Spring Cloud Data Flow and Spring Cloud Task ninja Glenn Renfro just announced Spring Cloud Task 1.1.0.RC1. Spring Cloud Task continues the journey to 1.1 which adds a lot of new features including error handling, improved options for customizing the launch of partitioned job workers.
• Spring Data lead Oliver Gierke just announced Spring Data release train Hopper SR5. This release includes a lot…

Getting started with Spring Cloud can be daunting. If you have seen the great Josh Long give his Cloud Native Java presentation, you will notice that you need to create several supporting applications before you can see your application at work.

Spring Cloud CLI Launcher

As part of the transition from Spring XD to Spring Cloud Dataflow, one of the extracted projects is called the Spring Cloud Deployer. The Deployer allows for launching applications on various platforms, including launching on a developer machine.

We wanted to simplify users' ability to experiment with Spring Cloud, so the spring cloud command…

Speaker: Josh Long

Hi Spring fans! In this tip, we'll look at how to create components that are aware of the Spring container

Hello and welcome back to another installment of This Week in Spring! Can you believe we're now two weeks until 2017 - time sure is flying! This week I'm in Los Angeles, California, USA, and then it's off to London for µCon 2016, Devoxx Belgium and Oredev. If you're at any of these events be sure to say hi! Now, without further ado let's get to it!

• first, be sure to check out this webinar on Spring Cloud Contract by Marcin Grzejszczak
• Spring Data ninja Mark Paluch just announced that Spring Vault and Spring Cloud Vault 1.0.0.M1 are now available
• Spring Security lead Rob Winch announced the release of Spring Security 4.2.0.RC1 with lots of new features and updates.
• In last week's "Spring Tips" installment I looked at circuit breakers in Spring, including the Hystrix circuit breaker and the new circuit breaker functionality in Spring Retry
• related, Spring Cloud team member Ryan Baxter shared new …

Speaker: Josh Long

Hi Spring fans! In this tip, we'll quickly look at the Netflix Hystrix circuit breaker in Spring Cloud and the circuit breaker in Spring Retry

Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This week I'll be in Des Moines, Iowa for the Prairie.Code conference. If you're nearby, stop by and say hi!

As usual, we've got a lot to cover so let's get to it.

• Spring Cloud ninja Marcin Grzejszczak just announced Spring Cloud Camden SR1. The Spring Cloud release train is such a thing of beauty - just seeing it makes me want to build something cool! It includes Spring Cloud AWS, Bus, Commons, Contract, Config, Netflix, Security, Sleuth, Stream, Task, and Zookeeper.
• Spring Cloud Data Flow co-founder Dr. Mark Pollack just announced Spring Cloud Data Flow 1.1.M2.
• Want help automating the pipeline that sees your application move from a git push to a successfully deployed application in production? Check out the new project, Spring Cloud Pipelines, which is a set of shell scripts that can be plugged in portably across Pivotal Concourse or Jenkins…