Last year right in the middle of SpringOne Platform 2018, I posted the first post in this series, _ The Reactive Revolution at SpringOne Platform 2018 (part 1/N)_, which looked at some of the big features we'd just dropped at SpringOne Platform 2018. I wanted to follow up and revisit that blog and the concepts I'd introduced last year, and show just how far we've come in the intervening year. TL;DR: things are much easier!

R2DBC

Last year, we announced our work on trying to support a standard for reactive SQL data access with a new project called R2DBC. Traditional approaches to SQL data…

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of a Bootiful Podcast! In this week's installment Josh Long (@starbuxman) talks to Rafael Winterhalter (@rafaelcodes) about Bytebuddy; Mockito; the JVM; bytecode; Oslo, Norway; and so much more.

• ByteBuddy
• Mockito
• JavaZone

On behalf of the Spring, Apache Geode & Pivotal GemFire communities, it is my pleasure to announce the release of Spring Session for Apache Geode and Pivotal GemFire (SSDG) 2.2.0.RELEASE.

SSDG 2.2.0.RELEASE primarily aligns with Spring Framework 5.2.0.RELEASE, Spring Data Moore-RELEASE/2.2.0.RELEASE, Spring Session Corn-RELEASE/2.2.0.RELEASE, Apache Geode 1.9.1 and Pivotal GemFire 9.8.4.

You can acquire the bits in Maven Central.

Additionally, SSDG 2.2.0.RELEASE can be acquired from Spring Boot 2.2.0.RELEASE.

Feedback

As always, any feedback is welcomed and appreciated.

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In the previous post, I tried to provide justification for our shift to a functional programming model in Spring Cloud Stream (SCSt). It's less code, less configuration. Most importantly, though, your code is completely decoupled and independent from the internals of SCSt.

In this post, I’ll dig a little deeper and summarize the core features of our functional support, specifically around its reactive features.

IMPORTANT: Anything you can do with @StreamListener/@EnableBinding you can also do without it. In other words, the functional support is now feature-compatible with the annotation-based support.

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I’m pleased to announce the releases of Spring Security OAuth 2.3.7, 2.2.6, 2.1.6 and 2.0.19. These maintenance releases primarily deliver bug fixes and minor enhancements.

For a complete list of changes, please refer to:

• 2.3.7 changelog

• 2.2.6 changelog

• 2.1.6 changelog

• 2.0.19 changelog

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On behalf of the Spring Boot team and everyone that has contributed, I am delighted to announce that Spring Boot 2.2.0 has been released and is available now from repo.spring.io, Maven Central and Bintray. This release adds a significant number of new features and improvements. For full upgrade instructions and new and noteworthy features please see the release notes.

What's new in 2.2

Dependency upgrades

Spring Boot 2.2 moves to new versions of several Spring projects:

• Spring AMQP 2.2
• Spring Batch 4.2
• Spring Data Moore
• Spring Framework 5.2
• Spring HATEOAS 1.0
• Spring Integration 5.2
• Spring Kafka 2.3
• Spring Security 5.2
• Spring Session Corn
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Hi, Spring fans! WHEW! What a week! Last week was the insane SpringOne Platform 2019 event, from which I am still recovering! Then I flew home, hosted Spring team member and Micrometer lead and friend Tommy Ludwig in San Francisco, and prepared to fly out for meetings and user group appearances on Monday (in Stuttgart, Germany) and Tuesday (in Amsterdam).

I prepared, and got into the Uber going to San Francisco airport when I got a call from my brother saying my 81-year-old dad wasn't doing well (thanks to everyone for the well-wishes!) and was rushed to the hospital. I had to, regretfully…

Event driven architecture is great. But without a framework, writing the scaffolding required to work with popular event messaging platforms can be messy. In this post we'll take a look at how Spring Cloud Stream can be used to simplify your code.

The Problem

You just want to write logic for your event driven application, but the boilerplate messaging code can get in the way. Connecting your apps to messaging services is tricky, and if you're an enterprise developer, you probably need to work with multiple messaging technologies (either on-premises or in the cloud).

The Solution

Let a flexible messaging abstraction take care of the complex messaging platform integration so you can concentrate on writing simple clean business logic. Spring Cloud Stream is a great candidate. It unifies lots of popular messaging platforms behind one easy to use API including RabbitMQ, Apache Kafka, Amazon Kinesis, Google PubSub, Solace PubSub+, Azure Event Hubs, and Apache RocketMQ. It even smoothes away any subtle…

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I’m happy to announce that Spring Initializr 0.8.0 has been released and is now available from repo.spring.io. For the first time, the release is also available from Maven Central!

This release includes 90 fixes, improvements and dependency upgrades. Thanks to all those who have contributed with issue reports and pull requests.

Spring Initializr 0.8 brings a complete rewrite of the project generation API with dedicated abstractions for common assets of JVM-based projects:

• Build systems with dedicated support for Apache Maven and Gradle (both Groovy and Kotlin DSLs).
• Languages with basic model and writer support for Java, Kotlin, and Groovy.
• High-level hook-point to tune the project structure with several convenient implementations.
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