Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another rip-roaring installment of This Week in Spring! My family and I are basically self-quarantined for the meanwhile, trying to avoid the terrifying COVID-19 pandemic that's ravaging communities around the world. This pandemic is bad because it's leaving countless thousands of sick or dead. It also means that it's harder for me to get on planes to meet people.

I'm disappointed I won't be able to - and haven't been able to - make these shows. But, there's always something to be learned and this week is no different. It was a busy week in Spring indeed! Let's get…

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In the previous article, you saw how Spring Boot simplifies the task of writing RSocket servers. But what about RSocket clients? In this article, you’ll learn how to write your own RSocket client and then use this new client to send request-response messages to your RSocket-server. Let’s get started!

This tutorial uses the Linux shell. For details on how to run a Linux shell on Windows, see this Microsoft tutorial.

Step 1: Create A New Spring Boot Project For Your Client

It’s fun to write your own code, so for your RSocket client let’s start from scratch.

If this is too much hassle for you, or you don’t have the time right now, then you can find the code in the rsocket-client folder of the demo code repository.

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Hi, Spring fans! In this episode Josh Long (@starbuxman) talks with Sergi Almar (@sergiAlmar) about organizing one of the best JVM community shows in the business, Barcelona's Spring I/O, being a trainer, and so much more.

On behalf of the community, I am pleased to announce that the Service Release 3 (SR3) of the Spring Cloud Hoxton Release Train is available today. The release can be found in Maven Central. You can check out the Hoxton release notes for more information.

Important Security Advisory

Spring Cloud Config contains fixes for CVE-2020-5405.

Notable Changes in the Hoxton Release Train

This milestone was primarily a bugfix release.

Please see the Hoxton.SR3 Github Project for all issues closed.

This milestone release is built with Spring Boot 2.2.5.RELEASE.

Spring Cloud Config

NOTE: The writable env endpoint has been disabled by default. To re-enable this please set management.endpoint.env.post.enabled=true…

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of Spring Tips. In this episode we're going to look at the new Kotlin DSL for Spring Security. I love Kotlin. I introduced Kotlin in several other Spring Tips videos: The Kotlin Programming Language, Bootiful Kotlin Redux, and Spring's Support for Coroutines. Some of those videos are very old! There are already a number of different projects in the Spring diaspora that are shipping Kotlin DSLs. They include, among others, Spring Framework, Spring Webflux, Spring Data, Spring Cloud Contract and Spring Cloud Gateway. And now, Spring Security!

Spring Security is an amazing project - it solves some of the hardest problems in the industry and helps people secure their applications. And, as if that weren't enough, it's displayed a steadfast determination to make security easy. If you ever used Spring Security in its earliest incarnations, you'd know that it required loads of XML - pages! - to get anything done. That improved to the point where in Spring Security 3 you…

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This week, I'm home, in San Francisco, California, in the US, where the fears around Coronavirus have heated up and made things problematic for those of us who travel. It looks like, at least for the immediate future, I'll be - basically - grounded. Stay safe out there, my friends.

The good news is that this will let me get to a ton more other things like the blogs, A Bootiful Podcast and Spring Tips and of course my Reactive Spring book. And of course, we've got a ton of things to get to today in today's installment of This Week in Spring, so…

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In the diverse world of microservices, HTTP is the undisputed leader in agent-to-agent communications. It’s mature, well established, and everywhere. But in some cases, HTTP request-response can be cumbersome. What if you need communication patterns beyond traditional request-response, such as fire-and-forget or streaming? And what if you want to send messages in either direction?

With HTTP, there are ways to achieve this but it’s not what the protocol was built for. Many of the solutions come with additional tradeoffs or shortcomings. Plus, here’s no rulebook that…

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of A Bootiful Podcast! In today's installment Josh Long (@starbuxman) talks to Spring Cloud team member lead Marcin Grzejszczak.

• Spring Cloud Contract
• Spring Cloud Sleuth
• Marcin on Twitter

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment of Spring Tips, we're going to look at Alibaba's Apache RocketMQ. We've talked some about Alibaba in Spring Tips before. Check out the earlier Spring Tips installment in which we explore some of Spring Cloud Alibaba.

Running Apache RocketMQ

In order to use Apache RocketMQ, you'll need to follow the steps in the RocketMQ quickstart. This Spring Tips installment introduces Apache RocketMQ, originally a technology developed and used internally at Alibaba and proven in the forge of 11/11, the famous Chinese sales holiday, sort of like "Cyber Monday," or "Black Friday," in the US. Sort of like that, but waaaaaay bigger. In 2019, Alibaba (alone, with no other e-commerce engines involved), made almost $40 billion USD in 2…