On behalf of Disid Corp, we're pleased to announce the first release candidate of Spring Roo 2.0. This is the first release candidate, from now on we’re going to work in the improvements and bug fixes that the community detects until we'll be able to publish the final release. We encourage you all to participate in this process testing the 2.0.0.RC1 version and reporting the possible bugs and improvements in our JIRA.

RC1 version includes some improvements and bugs fixes detected in the Spring Roo 2.0.0.M3 version. Also, it includes some significant new features:

• Included some improvements on existing commands:

• Improved data-on-demand generation to use it in test commands.

• Improved test unit command which now creates fully functional tests for JPA entities.

• Improved test integration command which now allows to create integration tests for JPA repositories and JSON/Thymeleaf controllers.

• Improved field commands readability, removing unnecessary options and make other dynamically visible.

• Improved push-in --method command, allowing to distinguish between methods with same name but different arguments.

• Improved repository command to allows developers to use projections as default return type.

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Speaker: Josh Long

Hi Spring fans! in this installment, we'll look at different ways to register beans with Spring, culminating in the new programmatic bean registration functionality in Spring 5.

Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! As usual, we've got a lot to cover so let's get to it! My friend Kenny Bastani and I will be doing a training for O'Reilly on the first and second of March introducing all things Spring, Spring Boot, Spring Cloud and Cloud Foundry - join us!

The long awaited public beta of Spring Cloud Services is now live on our public Cloud Foundry, PIvotal Web Services!

• Spring web ninja Rossen Stoyanchev just announced the the M5 milestone release of Spring 5, complete with support for a WebClient testing mechanism
• Eric Bottard has just announced Spring Cloud Data Flow for Cloud Foundry 1.1.1 which includes stability improvements, better error handling, network call optimizations and better load performance characteristics
• Reactor project lead Stephane Maldini just announced Reactor Aluminium SR1
• Pivotal's own Chris Sterling explains Cloud Foundry's new container-networking stack and how it applies to Spring Cloud-based applications.
• Last week, continuing the Spring Tips series, I looked at how to use Spring Boot with Apache MyBatis…

An update on the 5th and last milestone of Spring Framework 5.0...

Spring MVC and Spring WebFlux

The name *Spring MVC* is both well known and widely used but it may surprise a few there is no actual project or independent distribution with that name. Rather it is a module within the Spring Framework distribution called `spring-webmvc`. Here is another trivia question. Did you know that the top-level package in the module does not feature "mvc"? Rather it is called `org.springframework.web.servlet`. Practically speaking those are details that we don't have to remember. What matters is that we have a short and memorable name to refer to *Spring's Servlet stack based* web framework.

Spring's reactive stack web framework, new in 5.0, is fully reactive and non-blocking. It is suitable for event-loop style processing with a small number of threads. It is supported on Servlet containers (Tomcat, Jetty, Servlet 3.1+) but also non-Servlet runtimes (Netty, Undertow) since the common foundation for this stack is not the Servlet API but a non-blocking alternative built on Reactive Streams and the Reactor project. In case you're wondering, isn't Servlet 3.1 capable of non-blocking I/O…

Speaker: Josh Long

Hi Spring fans! In this tip, we'll look at mapping objects to and from SQL using MyBatis and Spring Boot

Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This week I'm in Atlanta, GA for the incredible DevNexus event and then it's off to Geneva, Switzerland for the Voxxed CERN event. As usual, don't hesitate to say "Hi" if you're around!

• Thomas Risberg just announced Spring Cloud Data Flow 1.2.M1
• Spring IO Platform lead Andy Wilkinson has just announced the Spring IO Platform Brussels release which introduces Spring Kafka to the release train and updates several others.
• InfoQ's Charles Humble takes a look at the future of Enterprise Java via the lens of the Geoffrey Moore's Chasm metaphor in this article.
• Last week, in another installment of Spring Tips, we looked at how to use JOOQ with Spring Boot.
• Using Java FX? This nice post by Gregg Bolinger shows how to use Spring with JavaFX, and have it be your controller factory.
• Check out community hero Michael Simons' …

Speaker: Josh Long

Hi Spring fans! In this tip, we'll look at jOOQ (a fluent API for typesafe SQL query construction and execution) to quickly and easily interface with our SQL database.

Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! It's Valentines Day for some, and so happy Valentines day to you! This week I'm in Memphis, Tennessee for business and then it's off to Saint Louis where I'll be presenting on Reactive Spring with my buddy Mark Heckler (join us!), then it's off to Atlanta, Georgia, ahead of next week's big DevNexus show. Check out what Pivotal is up to at the event!

As usual, we've got a lot to cover so let's get going!

• Last week, in another installment of Spring Tips, I looked at distributed tracing with Spring Cloud Sleuth and Zipkin
• Spring Cloud Task lead Michael Minella has just announced that Spring Cloud Task 1.2.0.M1
• Marcin Grzejszczak has just announced Spring Cloud Pipelines 1.0.0.M3 with complete support for blue-green deployment on Cloud Foundry
• check out this SpringOne platform 2016 talk on Spring Data Hazelcast repositories
• there's a good article on the Spring Boot Actuator support on Pivotal Web Services
• this S1P talk on streaming live data in the Hadoop ecosystem looks interesting
• Oleg Zhurakousky gives a nice look at using Apache NiFi with Spring…

Speaker: Josh Long

Hi Spring fans! In this tip, we'll quickly look at how to integrate distributed tracing with Spring Cloud Sleuth and the OpenZipkin project.