Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! There is a lot to talk about, so let's get to it!

• First, the big news! Spring framework lead and OG Spring Guy Juergen Hoeller just announced that Spring framework 4.2 RC1 is now available! This new release includes lots of amazing new features so be sure to check it out! It includes anotation detection on Java 8 default methods, annotation-based application events, first-class annotation attibute aliases, nest path processing for direct field binding, data binding and conversion for JSR 354 (money and currency), Hibernate ORM 5.0 support (via JPA and natively), a STOMP client for use over TCP and WebSocket channels, Listenable/…

Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! As usual, we've got a lot to cover this week so let's get to it!

• the good Dr. Dave Syer is back it again with this seventh installment on how to better modularize the Angular.js client that talks to a backend Spring Security, Spring Boot, and Spring Security OAuth-powered service and with this eighth installment which looks at how to test that Angular.js application!
• Spring Security lead and all around amazing, test-driven dude, Rob Winch just announced Spring Test HtmlUnit 1.0.0.RC1 with a lot of new polish.
• Spring Batch lead Michael Minella just announced that Spring Batch 3.0.4, a maintenance release, is now available
• Spring Social lead Craig Walls just announced that two maintenance releases, Spring Social 1.1.2 and Spring Social 1.1.1…

In this article we continue our discussion of how to use Spring Security with Angular JS in a "single page application". Here we show how to write and run unit tests for the client-side code using the Javascript test framework Jasmine. This is the eighth in a series of articles, and you can catch up on the basic building blocks of the application or build it from scratch by reading the first article, or you can just go straight to the source code in Github (the same source code as Part I, but with tests now added). This article actually has very little code using Spring or Spring Security, but…

In this article we continue our discussion of how to use Spring Security with Angular JS in a "single page application". Here we show how to modularize the client-side code, and how to use "nice" URL paths without the fragment notation (e.g. "/#/login") which Angular uses by default, but most users dislike. This is the seventh in a series of articles, and you can catch up on the basic building blocks of the application or build it from scratch by reading the first article, or you can just go straight to the source code in Github. We will be able to tidy up a lot of loose ends from the…

Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This week, I'm in Chicago, IL, for the spectacular GOTO conference, Chicago edition. If you're in the Chicago area, ping me on Twitter (@starbuxman). Cloud Foundry Summit just wrapped today as 1500 people came together to talk about the community and the technology. Spring made a strong showing, even getting a general session shoutout from James Watters for Spring Boot passing 1 Million downloads in April.

Now, without further ado..

• Spring Tool Suite ninja Kris De Volder just announced the new support for editing .yml files in STS - this is particularly awesome if you're using Spring Boot!
• Spring IO lead and all-around mad-scientist Andy Wilkinson just released the Gradle dependency management plugin 0.5.1.RELEASE. This plugin brings the power of Maven's dependencyManagement mechanism to Gradle and makes it easy to create consistent builds.
• Spring Integration lead Gary Russell just released Spring AMQP 1.4.5 and 1.5.0-M1. The 1.5 series introduces class-level @RabbitListener annotations (not just method-level ones), auto-declared queues and bindings, configurable exchange/routing Key for replies, a RabbitManagementTemplate…

In STS 3.6.4 we introduced ".properties" editor support, for editing Spring Boot configuration properties.

Soon thereafter, people started asking about support for ".yml" files as well. We are proud to say that the ".yml" support is now reality.

Check out the 5 minute video demo to see this in action:

The Spring Boot Yaml editor is built on top of YEdit. STS adds boot-specific content-assist, validation, hover-infos and hyperlink detectors.

It can be tried out today from STS's nightly update site and is planned to be released as part of STS 3.7.0 near the end of June 2015.

"You are always a student, never a master. You have to keep moving forward." -Conrad Hall

"The empires of the future are the empires of the mind." -Winston Churchill

"You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose." -Dr. Seuss

"Good students are good at all things." -Marissa Mayer

"The person who never made a mistake never tried anything new." -Albert Einstein

Warning: if you're a seasoned developer, than this may not be the post you're looking for. Keep reading, anyway. I'll bet you know some developers who are taking their first…

Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This week I'm in Las Vegas at the mega EMC World event.

• Spring Security lead Rob Winch has just announced that Spring Security SAML 1.0.1 is now available
• Phillip Verheyden's talk offers a very pragmatic look athow to move Spring 3 application - including dependencies like Jackson and Hibernate - to take advantage of newer and new features in Spring 4.x.
• My pal Adib Saikali's SpringOne2GX 2014 talk on building a rich client backends with Spring is now up
• Don't miss this replay of Spring ninja Greg Turnquist's talk on debugging and maintaining Spring Boot applications
• Dustin Whittle's talk on how to performance testing (Spring) applications is filled with useful tools, tips-and-tricks for…

Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This week, I'm in Barcelona, Spain for the Spring I/O conference.

• Spring Social lead Craig Walls just announced the release of Spring Social Facebook 2.0.1, the first maintenance release in the Spring Social Facebook 2.0 line.
• the good Dr. Syer just published a blog on different ways to bind services in Cloud Foundry
• Spring Security lead Rob Winch just released Spring Security 4.0.1, the first maintenance release in the Spring Security 4.0 line
• This Week's SpringOne2GX Replays are out! Marius Bogoevici shows us how to Build highly modular and testable business systems with Spring Integration, Brian Cavalier talks about Efficient Client-Server Communication with Differential Synchronization and JSON Patch and Topher Bullock and Will Tran review Server-side JavaScript with Nashorn and Spring…