Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! We've got a lot to look at so let's get to it!

• Spring Security lead Rob Winch just released Spring Security LDAP 2.2RC1
• Spring Integration lead Gary Russell just announced Spring Integration and Spring AMQP release candidates; get the bits now!
• Spring Data ninja Thomas Risberg just released Spring Cloud Data Flow for Kubernetes 1.1.M1
• Spring Data lead Oliver Gierke announced Spring Data Hopper SR4 and Spring Data Gosling SR6
• Spring Statemachine lead Janne Valkealahti just announced Spring Statemachine 1.2.0M1
• I liked this GR8Conf talk by Jenn Strater on a test-driven approach to documenting REST APIs with Spring REST Docs
• This German language news roundup ever so briefly …

Wow! It's already almost October! This year has sure gone by quickly!

Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This week I'm in the studio with Phil Webb recording the next installment of our Livelessons series on building Microservices with Spring Boot. It's been a lot of fun so far and we've only just begun!

Tonight, I hope you'll join me for Cloud Native Java on the vJUG's worldwide and live event going on in timezones all around the world!

We've got so much to cover, so let's get to it!

• Spring lead Juergen Hoeller just announced Spring Framework 5.0.M2, another major step on the journey to Spring 5! This release includes the functional endpoint mechanism for Spring MVC, as well!
• Hurray! Reactor 3.0 is out! Get the latest bits and see why Reactor underpins Spring Framework 5's Reactive Runtime
• Check out Spring reactive ninja Arjen Poutsma's new look at the functional endpoint mechanism in Spring Framework 5
• Spring Cloud ninja Spencer Gibb has just announced Spring Cloud Camden.RELEASE and Spring Cloud Brixton.SR6! Spring Cloud Camden is packed…

As mentioned yesterday in Juergen's blog post, the second milestone of Spring Framework 5.0 introduced a new functional web framework. In this post, I will give more information about the framework.

Keep in mind the functional web framework is built on the same reactive foundation that we provided in M1 and on which we also support annotation-based (i.e. @Controller, @RequestMapping) request handling, see the M1 blog post for more on that.

Example

We start with some excerpts from our sample application. Below is a reactive repository that exposes Person objects. It is quite similar to a traditional, non-reactive repository, except that it returns Flux<Person> where you would return a List<Person> traditionally, and Mono<Person> where you would return a Person. Mono<Void> is used as a completion signal: to indicate when the save has been completed. For more information on these Reactor types, refer to Dave's blog post…

Hello world! Since we last talked, I've been in multiple cities in China, including Hangzhou, Shanghai, Beijing, Guangzhou, Shenzhen and Hong Kong, talking to customers and community members alike. It's fascinating to see what our amazing customers in China do with our technologies in the hypercompetitive Chinese market. And, tasty!

• Spring Cloud Camden is almost here! Spring Cloud co-founder Spencer Gibb just announced Spring Cloud Camden RC1, which in turn includes a lot of improvements and a really cool new module, Spring Cloud Contract
• Spring for Apache Kafka lead Artem Bilan just announced that Spring for Apache Kafka 1.1 GA and Spring Integration Kafka 2.1 GA are now available
• Spring Integration ninja Artem Bilan has also just announced that Spring Integration 4.3.2 has just been released, with polish around the RMI adapters, TCP, and a few new global tweaks like spring.integration.readOnly.headers…

Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! It's been an amazing week here in China, hanging out with Alibaba and Huawei, bringing the Spring. This week it's off to Shanghai, Beijing, Guangzhou, Shenzhen and Hong Kong!

Our pal Pieter Humphrey has been busy this week getting the SpringOne Platform 2016 videos up and online for us to enjoy so there's a lot of good stuff this week! Thanks Pieter!

• Want see Mark Fisher and Mark Pollack present and live demo their way through Spring Cloud Data Flow on September 29th? Reserve your seat now!
• Want to learn what's new in Spring Framework 4.3? Join Spring framework lead Juergen Hoeller for this look at an awesome framework
• I liked this talk from Home Depot on what 12 Factor applications means to a Java Developer and turns out it was one of the top attended at the conference!
• I gave an almost 2 hour long talk at SpringOne Platform 2016 called Cloud Native Java covering Spring Boot (REST…

Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This week I'm in Shanghai, China and Hangzhou, China where I spoke at the ginormous Huawei Connect conference in Shanghai and where I'll be working with Alibaba and Huawei for a week or so. I'll also be speaking at the Hangzhou Java User Group, too.

(Can you believe we're already in September?? Seriously blown away! 2017 is just around the corner!)

I'm also, technically, on vacation, so I'll keep this post to a minimum! :)

• Spring REST Docs lead Andy Wilkinson has just announced Spring REST Docs 1.1.2
• Spring Security ninja Joe Grandja just announced a very important fix for Spring Security OAuth 2
• Spring ninja Stéphane Nicoll put together a very interesting article on how to write a custom spring Boot test slice
• our buddy Eugene is back at it again, with updates to his guide on using Spring Cloud's Netflix Hystrix support
• learn more about Spring Cloud's Config Server in this nice post from Ian Collington.
• I love this Forbes.com interview with Paul Maritz…

Issue #808 was recently reported that allowed a user to authenticate as a client and obtain an access token via the client_credentials or password grant flow.

This unique scenario occurs when a client and user have the same identifier (clientId and username). The user’s credentials are used for client authentication during a client_credentials or password grant flow and is successful in obtaining an access token with the authorities of the client.

The Fix

This bug has been fixed in 1ed986a and released in 2.0.11.RELEASE.

If you’re using Java-based configuration, please update to 2.0.11.RELEASE…

Spring Boot 1.4 includes a major overhaul of testing support and one of these features is test slicing. I'd like to take the opportunity in this blog post to further explain what it is and how you can easily create your own slices.

Test slicing is about segmenting the ApplicationContext that is created for your test. Typically, if you want to test a controller using MockMvc, surely you don't want to bother with the data layer. Instead you'd probably want to mock the service that your controller uses and validate that all the web-related interaction works as expected. This can be summarized in…

Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This week I've been in San Francisco, (where I live and) where I addressed the Silicon Valley Spring User Group. Now it's off to beautiful China to bring some Spring and Pivotal (and, maybe, take a little vacation!)

As usual, we have a lot to get to so let's!

• Spring ninja Greg Turnquist has just announced that Spring Web Services 2.3.1 and 2.4.0 are now available
• Spring Cloud ninja Marcin Grzejszczak just announced that Spring Cloud Camden M1 is now available
• Spring Cloud Data Flow ninja Thomas Risberg just announced that Spring Cloud Data Flow for Mesos 1.0.RC2 is now available
• Marius Bogoevici just announced Spring Cloud Stream Brooklyn M1 is now available. This release is packed full of new features including support for reactive programming
• Spring Cloud Data Flow ninja Eric Bottard just announced …