Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! Life's been busy but fun this last week. I've been knee-deep in video production! I've got a lot of fun Spring Tips installments lined up or in production at the moment, and I can't wait for you to see 'em!

I also spent much of last week with my buddy Matt Raible and we made JHipster work with Spring Native, and I'm still giddy as can be about the newly opened possibilities. (More on that below)

How are you doin', otherwise? I hope you're doing well!

Now then, we've got a lot to cover and oh-so little time in which to do…

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment Josh Long (@starbuxman) talks to Spring Data engineer Christoph Strobl (@stroblchristoph) about GraphQL, MongoDB, and Spring Native, among other things.

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment, Josh Long looks at how to build bootiful Edge Services with Spring Cloud Gateway, Spring GraphQL, and Reactive Programming

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This week I'm with my buddy Matt Raible preparing for what I'm hoping will be an awesome San Francisco JUG joint appearance on Wednesday this week!

I've got to get back to that! But I did want to get through this roundup because it's enormous! So, without further ado:

• Spring Initializr 0.11.0 available now
• In last week's A Bootiful Podcast, I talked to Spring web legend Rossen Stoyanchev on RSocket, GraphQL and more
• Reassessing TestNG vs. Junit
• Spring Boot 2.4.11 available now
• Spring Boot 2.5.5 available now
• Spring Boot 2.6.0-M3 available now
• Spring Data JDBC - How do I make Bidirectional Relationships?
• Spring Native in Action with the Okta Spring Boot Starter
• TodoMVC with Spring Boot and Thymeleaf (Part 1) - Wim Deblauwe
• TodoMVC with Spring Boot and Thymeleaf (Part 2) - Wim Deblauwe
• TodoMVC with Spring Boot and Thymeleaf (Part 3) - Wim Deblauwe
• Neat article on InfoQ.com: …

Hi, Spring fans! In this episode, Josh Long (@starbuxman) talks to Rossen Stoyanchev (@rstoya05) about Spring, RSocket, GraphQL, and so much more.

On behalf of the community, I am pleased to announce that the 2020.0.4 release of Spring Cloud is available today. The release can be found in Maven Central. You can check out the 2020.0 release notes for more information.

See all issues included in this release here.

This was primarily a bug fix and documentation release. 2020.0.4 is compatible with Spring Boot 2.4.x and 2.5.x.

Notable Changes in the 2020.0.4 release

Spring Cloud Commons

• Allow passing group while creating reactive circuit breaker (#994 )

Spring Cloud Config

• Return Boolean and Integer Properties when using JDBC backend ( #1952 )
• Provide the git username/password at run time(dynamically) ( #1896 )
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This is the second article of a series about how to tackle various challenges you might encounter when using Spring Data JDBC. The series consists of

1. Spring Data JDBC - How to use custom ID generation.

2. Spring Data JDBC - How do I make bidirectional relationships? (this article).

3. Spring Data JDBC - How do I implement caching?

4. Spring Data JDBC - How Can I Do a Partial Update of an Aggregate Root?

If you are new to Spring Data JDBC, you should start by reading its introduction and this article, which explains the relevance of aggregates in the context of Spring Data JDBC. Trust me, it…

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! As usual, it's been another crazy awesome, and jam-packed week in Spring, so we've got a ton of stuff to get to and so very little time in which to do it. Andiamo!

• A Bootiful Podcast: Dr. Mark Pollack on Physics, Spring Cloud Data Flow, Spring Data, Spring.NET, Spring XD, and so much more
• Changing Spring Boot packaging to WAR and deploying to Tomcat and Jetty
• Discover Lenovo Innovation at VMworld: Smarter Technology for All
• How much faster is Java 17?
• In June, Okta's Matt Raible, Brian Demers and I did a Twitch stream to figure out how to make the Okta Spring Boot starter work with Spring Native. We succeeded! However, it wasn't easy. Watch our trials and tribulations in this video.
• Check out this massive…

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of A Bootiful Podcast. In this installment, Josh Long (@starbuxman) talks to the one, the only, the amazing and inimitable Dr. Mark Pollack (@MarkPollack) about physics, Spring.NET, Spring Data, Spring XD, Spring Cloud Data Flow, and so much more!