In my previous blog article, I described how to set up and use Spring Data JDBC. I also described the premise of making Spring Data JDBC easier to understand than JPA. This becomes interesting once you consider references. As a first example, consider the following domain model:

class PurchaseOrder {

  private @Id Long id;
  private String shippingAddress;
  private Set<OrderItem> items = new HashSet<>();

  void addItem(int quantity, String product) {
    items.add(createOrderItem(quantity, product));
  }

  private OrderItem createOrderItem(int quantity, String product) {

    OrderItem…

On behalf of the Spring and Apache Geode communities, I am pleased to announce the third milestone release of Spring Boot for Apache Geode & Pivotal GemFire (SBDG), version 1.0.0.M3.

The bits for 1.0 final GA are nearly complete. There will be 1 more development milestone (RC1) before final GA. The new 1.0.0.M3 bits can be acquired from the Spring libs-milestone repo.

What’s New

SBDG 1.0.0.M3 adds support for using Spring Boot’s Actuator feature with Apache Geode & Pivotal GemFire (and, by extension, Pivotal Cloud Cache, which is backed by Pivotal GemFire).

Specifically, this support includes Spring Boot HealthIndicators to assess the state and health of the…

On behalf of the Spring Data team, it's my pleasure to announce the general availability of Spring Data Lovelace. This release train ships on top of the just-released Spring Framework 5.1 GA. You can easily consume Spring Data Lovelace with next week's Spring Boot 2.1 M4 release. Spring Data Lovelace ships with a number of major features, improvements, and bugfixes. The most notable topics are:

• Support for immutable objects
• Deferred JPA repository initialization
• Support for MongoDB 4.0 Client Sessions and Transactions
• New Spring Data JDBC module
• Apache Cassandra mapping improvements for Map and tuple types, Lifecycle Callbacks, and Kotlin Extensions
• Replica Reads with Spring Data Redis
…

Dear Spring community,

It is my pleasure to announce that Spring Framework 5.1 is generally available from repo.spring.io as well as Maven Central now! Check out our recently updated docs...

• What's New in Spring Framework 5.1
• Upgrading to Spring Framework 5.1
• Our revised reference documentation

Spring Framework 5.1 requires JDK 8 or higher and specifically supports JDK 11 as the next long-term support release. It comes with initial refinements for GraalVM compatibility and deeply integrates with the recently released Reactor Californium and Hibernate ORM 5.3.

The core container introduces…

Dear Spring Community,

I am happy to announce the 3.9.6 release of the Spring Tool Suite, our Eclipse-based tooling.

Highlights from this release include:

• updated to Eclipse 2018-09 release
• added support for automatic and manual SSH tunneling to remote apps on CF for remote JMX access
• various bug fixes

To download the distributions, please go visit:

• Spring Tool Suite: https://spring.io/tools/sts/all

Detailed new and noteworthy notes can be found here: STS 3.9.6 New & Noteworthy.

Enjoy!

Greetings Spring community,

The Spring Web Services team is releasing two version at the same time. 3.0.4.RELEASE as the main branch of development along with 2.4.3.RELEASE for maintenance.

3.0.4.RELEASE comes with a handful of features listed further below. It also comes with new support for Java 11, the next long term supported version of Java.

Java 11 and beyond

Starting in Java 9, several key Java EE packages had their visibility reduced. These included core XML and SOAP-based packages. In Java 11, these packages have been removed altogether. Since Java 11 is the first long term release…

We are pleased to announce the second Milestone of the Spring Cloud Function - 2.0.0.M2.

Individual modules of Spring Cloud Function 2.0.0.M2 are available for use in the Spring Milestone repository.

Aside form general enhancements and bug fixes, the primary themes for this release are

• Kotlin support
• new programming model for Azure Functions (blog to follow)
• automatic (optional) export of Supplier on startup in web adapter

How can you help?

If you're interested in helping out, check out the "ideal for contribution" tag in the issue repository. If you have general questions, please ask on stackoverflow.com using the spring-cloud-function tag…

Hi Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! It's the week before SpringOne Platform and things are crazy! We have so much to cover - as usual! - but FIRST! ..some poetry (with apologies to Clement Clark Moore)

'twas the week before SpringOne Platform, when all throughout Spring; Not a creature was stirring, just the computers and things; the expectations were raised by the community with care; in hopes that SpringRod would be there;

That's right! this year is fixing to be AMAZING! We're going to have Spring founder Rod Johnson, Jenny Zhang, Siew Choo Soh, Neha…

The Spring Cloud Data Flow team is pleased to announce the release of 1.7 M1. Follow the Getting Started guides for Local Server, Cloud Foundry, and Kubernetes.

Here are the highlights

• Improved UI

• Stream Application DSL

• Audit trail

• Concurrent Task Launch Limiting

• Stream and Task validation

• Force upgrade for Streams

Improved UI

The UI has a completely new look. The navigation has moved from tabs to a left side navigation system. This gives increased screen real estate for creating streams with the Flo designer and even more screen real estate can be obtained by minimizing the left…