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

Last week I was in Paris, France, for Devoxx, FR, and this week I'm in India for the Great Indian Developer Summit and for some meetings ahead of the conference in Bangalore and Hyderabad. If you're in Bombay, Hyderabad, or Bangalore, and want to talk Spring, Cloud Foundry, and big-data, let me know!

In a week and some change, I'll be in Barcelona, Spain, for Spring I/O. If you're in Spain, be sure not to miss this amazing event! I, along with many other members of the Spring team…

Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This week, I'm off to Paris, France for Devoxx France. Many of us on the Spring and Cloud Foundry teams will be there, so don't hesitate to reach out if you're about, we'd love to hear from you! Also, even if you're not at the show, come meet many of us on the Spring team (including Juergen Hoeller himself, Stéphane Nicoll, Brian Clozel, Sébastien Deleuze and of course yours truly) at this free Devoxx France event.

Also, this Thursday I'll be speaking at the vJUG again, this time on building microservices with Spring Cloud. Don't miss it!

We believe that the development of cloud-native application architectures is the next great evolutionary phase of enterprise application development. These architectures combine elements like twelve-factor applications, microservices, self-service agile infrastructure, API-based collaboration, and antifragility. All of these elements enable us to simultaneously move quickly and safely as we continuously deliver business value to our customers.

The Spring team's goal has always been to win the war on Java complexity, and now we're teaming up with our colleagues on the Cloud Foundry team to…

As of Spring Framework 4.0, Java 8 is supported as a first-class citizen and we've seen some confusion in the Spring community since then. How do we manage to support Java 8 and remain compatible with Java 6 and Java 7 after all? This blog post provides some insight into how we're handling this within the framework codebase.

Java 8 language features vs. Java 8 APIs

First, a distinction must be made between using new language features and new APIs in a given Java generation such as Java 8. If a class uses a Java 8 language feature such as a lambda expression, it has to be compiled with -source 1.8 -target 1.8 and therefore the whole compilation unit will only work on Java 8+. However, if a particular class in a library optionally uses a new Java 8 interface such as java.util.stream.Stream, the library can still run on a previous Java generation as long as it is being compiled with e.g. -source 1.6 -target 1.6 - and as long as the use of that particular …

Greetings Spring community,

Dave Syer's six-part blog series on Spring Security and AngularJS has been a smash hit! It has echoed across the twittersphere, torn up DZone, and drawn people far and wide.

Did you miss any of it? Perhaps you've heard of it and found it too difficult to track down the first post. No more.

Please navigate to our newly minted Spring Security and AngularJS tutorial and enjoy all that solid gold. We migrated 100% of it into that tutorial, made slight edits to the links, and polished it up just for you.

Share and enjoy!

You might have heard about the end of public updates for Java 7, coming up in just a few days with the release of Java 7 update 80. See the following Oracle pages for a reference:

https://blogs.oracle.com/java-platform-group/entry/future_updates_of_java_7 http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/eol-135779.html

Let's clarify what it really is: the end of public updates, and by no means an end of life (EOL). With the second link above, scroll down to the "Oracle Java SE Support Roadmap" section and you'll find the actual EOL dates: Dec 2018 for Java 6 and Jul 2022 for Java 7. Yes, that's another…

Spring Boot 1.1.12 has been released and is available now from repo.spring.io and Maven Central.

This maintenance release includes a small number of fixes and is recommended for anyone still on the 1.1.x line.

This the last planned release from the 1.1.x branch so please consider upgrading to 1.2.3 if you haven't already.

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

• Spring Security lead Rob Winch just announced the amazing Spring Security 4.0 release! This one is packed with amazing features including websocket support, Spring Data integration, enhanced testing support, and much improved defaults
• The Cloud Foundry Java buildpack now supports overriding inbuilt configuration through the use of well-named environment variables! This means you can tweak all manner of the default behavior without needing to fork the buildpack!
• Good news! Spring XD 1.1.1 is released! It includes improved performance and offset management when using Kafka message bus, support for Spark's streaming reliable receiver, Kryo serialization improvements, RabbitMQ auto-cleanup options and a Sqoop…

Recorded at SpringOne2GX 2014.

Speaker: Jeff Scott Brown

More Groovy Track

Slides: http://www.slideshare.net/SpringCentral/gorm-inside-andout

GORM is a super powerful ORM tool that makes ORM simple by leveraging the flexibility and expressiveness of a dynamic language like Groovy. With GORM developers get access to all of the power and flexibility of an ORM tool like Hibernate without any of the complexity.