Migrating Spring Boot's Build to Gradle

Engineering | Andy Wilkinson | June 08, 2020 | ...

We made a fairly significant change to Spring Boot in 2.3.0.M1. It was the first release of the project to be built with Gradle rather than Maven. A thread on Twitter about the migration had a number of people asking why we switched and the benefits, if any, that we’d seen. This blog post aims to answer those questions.

Each project in the Spring portfolio is run in a fairly autonomous manner. We strive for consistency where our users will see it most – API design, for example – but choose the tools that best meet the needs of the project for things that are less visible. One example of this…

This Week in Spring - June 2, 2020

Engineering | Josh Long | June 03, 2020 | ...

What's new in Spring Data Elasticsearch 4.0

Engineering | Mark Paluch | May 27, 2020 | ...

This article continues our blog post series on What’s new in Spring Data Neumann. Today’s installment explains New and Noteworthy in Spring Data Elasticsearch. This blog post was written by P.J. Meisch who maintains the Spring Data Elasticsearch module.

This release addresses more than 140 issues, with more than 30 bugs fixed.

Spring Data Elasticsearch now uses Elasticsearch 7, 7.6.2 in particular. Elasticsearch clusters running on 6.x versions are not supported anymore. The ElasticsearchTemplate class is deprecated as it uses the TransportClient to access Elasticsearch, which itself is deprecated since Elasticsearch version 7.+ Users should switch to ElasticsearchRestTemplate or ReactiveElasticsearchTemplate

This Week in Spring - May 26th, 2020

Engineering | Josh Long | May 27, 2020 | ...

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! How're things? My family and I spent the Memorial Day holiday weekend mostly playing video games and trying random new restaurants for delivery. Now, it's back to the grind and there are a ton of things to look at so let's get to it!

Getting Started With RSocket: Testing Spring Boot Responders

Engineering | Ben Wilcock | May 25, 2020 | ...

Reading time: about 6 minutes Coding time: about 15 minutes

If you've been following this series, by now, you'll have built a Spring Boot prototype that illustrates many of the features present in RSocket. This code isn’t production code, though; it's a prototype, a stepping stone on your RSocket journey. For production code, I'd expect all the usual quality assurance and testing rules to apply. So in this exercise, I'll show you how to write integration tests for RSocket responders, so you can get one step closer to production.

But first, what do I mean by integration testing?

Integration…

Migrating to Spring Data JDBC 2.0

Engineering | Jens Schauder | May 20, 2020 | ...

With Spring Data JDBC 2.0, we had to introduce some breaking changes. The goal of this article is to help in the migration process.

TL;DR

  1. Use the default letter casing for custom column and table names or quote the names for table generation exactly as used in the annotations.

  2. Use AbstractJdbcConfiguration for custom configuration of the application context.

  3. Register a Dialect if necessary.

  4. Review event-handling code and ensure the data you try to use is not null.

Quoting of Identifiers

Spring Data JDBC 1.x uses table and column names mostly without changing them. This causes…

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