Hello everyone! Pieter posting this on Josh Long's behalf here... this week the Spring and Cloud Foundry teams are at JavaOne talking to developers about Spring, Cloud Foundry, Hadoop and big data! Happily, our pretty new @GoPivotal booth has garnered a lot of attention!

I met Duke, too! I think the big guy was as happy to see me as I was him!

1. Spring ninja Greg Turnquist put together a nice post on how to contribute to Spring Boot with a pull request. The article does ultimately talk about the processing sending a pull request, but most of it's a really great introduction to extending Spring Boot to suit a new use case (like JMS, which simply hadn't been added yet). This post also introduces some cool features in Spring Boot, if you haven't learned about it yet.
2. Speaking of Spring Boot, check out this upcoming Spring Boot webinar featuring project co-lead Phil Webb!
3. Rossen Stoyanchev put together a knock-out piece how to build web applications that use websockets, or Sock.js, and how to then layer STOMP on top of that for an easier messaging-style interaction between the browser and the service.
4. Rossen also has an upcoming webinar on Oct 8th, Building WebSocket Browser Applications with Spring, showing off the best of his SpringOne2GX 2013 session.
5. I encourage you to check out the upcoming webinar featuring James Williams on building big data applications with Spring, Spring XD and Hadoop! This is going to be an awesome talk. James has some killer examples and knows his stuff.
6. In related news, I put together a quick post on my thoughts on Data Integration, Stream Processing and Spring XD.
7. Jakub Kubrynski has put together a nice post on how to use load-time weaving to inject dependencies into objects not managed by the Spring container using a couple of different approaches.
8. Nitin Kumar put together a nice look at Spring Integration, a lightweight approach.
9. Tomás Lin, who says that he loves testing Grails applications with Spock, put together a great post on how to test with Spring Boot with Spock.
10. Sometimes, you need to do RMI, and when you do, Spring has you covered!
11. The BitwiseOR blog has a great post on how to use Spring Boot to build REST services, using Groovy no less! Win! I'm not sure if I agree with the conclusion, but whatever it takes for people to be able to use this to simplify development, it's a win! And, with really great posts like this, hopefully it won't be long at all before everyone's bootstrapping their development, too!

At Pivotal we are bringing two open source projects together -- Hadoop and the very rapid and widely used Spring java application development framework to help build Big Data Applications. While Hadoop is proving to be the defacto foundation for storing and processing data, real-world scenarios require much more. Millions of developers are already using Spring to create high performing, easily testable, reusable code without any lock-in. In this month's webinar James Williams will explore how Spring XD (Xtreme Data) is addressing Big Data Application needs including:

• High throughput distributed data ingestion into HDFS from a variety of input sources
• Real-time analytics at ingestion time, e.g. gathering metrics and counting values
• Hadoop workflow management via batch jobs
• High throughput data export, e.g. from HDFS to a RDBMS or NoSQL database.

Date: Thursday, October 3, 2013 Time: 9:00 AM, PST/5:00 PM, GMT Summer Time

Register http://play.gopivotal.com/Global_Hadoop_Spring_Webinar_Register.html

So, you've written a "Hello world!" WebSocket application or perhaps even a chat sample. You're able to exchange messages even in pre-Servlet 3.1 containers and pre-IE 10 browsers (that don't yet support WebSocket) thanks to the SockJS protocol and Spring's support for it. However a message is a blank page that can have any content. Whatever message format you choose, proprietary or standard, both client and server need to understand it as well as distinguish different kinds of messages. You need support for the publish-subscribe pattern central to messaging applications so you can broadcast messages to one or more subscribers. You need to incorporate security, validation, and so on. In short you need to build a real-world application. If you're used to web applications (and Spring MVC annotated controllers) you are familiar with the foundation that HTTP provides including URLs (nouns), HTTP methods (verbs), headers, parameters, and others. Imagine building an application without HTTP, just a socket. WebSocket gives you this brand new, exciting capability -- full duplex, two-way communication -- yet you no longer have an application-level protocol. Can an entire application be built around a single Endpoint class processing all messages, assuming a single WebSocket connection between browser and server? Join Rossen Stoyanchev as he demonstrates that, thankfully, the WebSocket protocol has a built-in sub-protocol mechanism.

Europe

Tuesday, October 8 3:00PM GMT Summer Time London, GMT+01:00)

Register https://gopivotal.webex.com/gopivotal/onstage/g.php?t=a&d=667384670

North America

Tuesday, October 8 10:00AM PDT San Francisco, GMT-07:00)

Register https://gopivotal.webex.com/gopivotal/onstage/g.php?t=a&d=660130258

Are you fed up with searching stackoverflow for copy-paste configuration, do you want to write apps that can 'just run'? Perhaps you are just starting out with Spring and want a quick way to learn the basics without manually downloading and installing half the Internet?

In this webinar Phil Webb will demonstrate how Spring Boot can take you from zero to Spring with minimal fuss. We will look at how you can rapidly prototype Spring applications using Groovy, and how Spring Configuration in Java applications can be radically simpler. We will show how you can embed tomcat into your applications…

Beginning with version 3.2, Spring Framework JAR files such as spring-core, spring-context, and spring-webmvc no longer contain MANIFEST.MF files with OSGi metadata. Likewise, builds are not automatically promoted to the SpringSource EBR. To ensure that OSGi users are able to upgrade to Spring Framework 3.2, SpringSource will create and publish bundles for Spring Framework 3.2 GA to the EBR in a separate process shortly following the GA release. At least one 3.2 milestone or release candidate will also be published such that the community can validate the OSGi metadata prior to going GA. Note that any future releases in the Spring Framework 3.1.x line will continue to contain OSGi metadata and will be published immediately to the EBR as per usual. Interested users may want to place a watch on SPR-8903 to be notified of further updates, e.g. when Spring Framework 3.2 bundles are published to the EBR.

We are glad to announce that we will host a FREE conference about Spring and Hadoop on Friday August 30th in downtown Singapore from 6 to 8 PM.

Spring best practices: from Spring Petclinic to Spring Data Hadoop

Michael Isvy joined SpringSource (the company behind Spring, now part of Pivotal) in 2008. He has, since then, taught Spring to more than 1000 students in 10 different countries. He has presented on Spring at numerous conferences and is an active technical blogger on the SpringSource blog. Michael holds the position of Education Manager for the Asia-Pacific region at SpringSource…

If you are a Java developer looking to increase your Spring knowledge, Spring Training by Pivotal is the place to start. We are providing several Spring trainings across the globe closely connected to your needs as a professional developer. This month we provide the new 4-day Groovy & Grails class in Boston, MA. SpringSource has also started offering new Hibernate with Spring Classes in the Bay Area, Germany, London (GB) and the United States (Online Courses)

The complete Spring training schedule for September, 2013 can be found below:

Step 1: Core Spring

Americas

• September 03 - 06: Core Spring in Dallas, TX
• September 10 - 13: Core Spring in Washington, DC
• September 10 - 13: Core Spring in Los Angeles, CA
• September 17 - 20: Core Spring Live Online in the United States
• September 17 - 20: Core Spring in Phoenix, AZ
• September 17 - 20: Core Spring in Sacramento, CA
• September 17 - 20: Core Spring in San Francisco, CA
• September 17 - 20: Core Spring in San Jose, CA
• September 17 - 20: Core Spring in Seattle, WA
• September 17 - 20: Core Spring in Phoenix, AZ
• September 24 - 27: Core Spring in San Diego, CA
• September 24 - 27: Core Spring in Stamford, CT
• September 24 - 27: Core Spring in Orlando, FL

Asia Pacific

• September 02 - 05: Core Spring in Bangalore, India
• September 09 - 12: Core Spring in Hong Kong, Hong Kong
• September 17 - 20: Core Spring in Singapore, Singapore
• September 25 - 28: Core Spring in New Delhi, India

Europe, Middle East & Africa

• September 03 - 06: Core Spring in Prague, Czech Republic
• September 03 - 06: Core Spring Amsterdam, Netherlands
• September 09 - 12: Core Spring in Paris, France
• September 09 - 12: Core Spring in München, Germany
• September 10 - 13: Core Spring in Wien, Austria
• September 10 - 13: Core Spring in Brussels, Belgium
• September 10 - 13: Core Spring in Moscow, Russia
• September 10 - 13: Core Spring in Stockholm, Sweden
• September 10 - 13: Core Spring in Zürich, Switzerland
• September 16 - 19: Core Spring in London, United Kingdom
• September 17 - 20: Core Spring in Zagreb, Croatia
• September 17 - 20: Core Spring Live Online in Europe
• September 23 - 26: Core Spring in München, Germany
• September 24 - 27: Core Spring in Oslo, Norway
• September 24 - 27: Core Spring in Madrid, Spain

Step 2: Spring Web / Enterprise Integration with Spring / Hibernate with Spring

Americas

• September 03 - 06: Enterprise Integration with Spring in Boston, MA
• September 14 - 22: Enterprise Integration with Spring Live Online in South America
• September 17 - 20: Enterprise Integration with Spring Live Online in the United States
• September 24 - 26: Hibernate with Spring Live Online in the United States
• September 24 - 26: Hibernate with Spring in Phoenix, AZ
• September 24 - 26: Hibernate with Spring in Sacramento, CA
• September 24 - 26: Hibernate with Spring in San Francisco, CA
• September 24 - 26: Hibernate with Spring in San Jose, CA

Asia Pacific

• September 02 - 05: Enterprise Integration with Spring in Sydney, Australia

Europe, Middle East & Africa

• September 03 - 06: Enterprise Integration with Spring Live Online in Europe
• September 10 - 13: Enterprise Integration with Spring in Amsterdam, Netherlands
• September 17 - 20: Enterprise Integration with Spring in Dublin, Ireland
• September 24 - 27: Enterprise Integration with Spring in Wien, Austria
• September 24 - 27: Enterprise Integration with Spring in München, Germany
• September 24 - 27: Enterprise Integration with Spring in Zürich, Switzerland
• September 04 - 06: Hibernate with Spring in Berlin, Germany
• September 23 - 25: Hibernate with Spring in London, United Kingdom
• September 30 - October 02: Hibernate with Spring in Wien, Austria
• September 30 - October 02: Hibernate with Spring in München, Germany
• September 30 - October 02: Hibernate with Spring in Zürich, Switzerland

If you cannot find a professional training near you, you can always request an onsite SpringSource training