Hi Spring fans and welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This week I'm off to pleasant Pittsburgh, PA to speak at, among other places, DICK's Sporting Goods. Join me!

Now that my entire six part series introducing how to use Spring Boot with Microsoft Azure just concluded, with the last parts being released in this last week, I wanted to give you the whole thread here for your consumption.

• Bootiful Azure: Taking Your First Steps with Microsoft Azure (1/6)
• Bootiful Azure: SQL-based data access with Microsoft SQL Server (2/6)
• Bootiful Azure: Global Scale Data Access with CosmosDB (3/6)
• Bootiful Azure: Integration with Azure Service Bus (4/6)
• Bootiful Azure: Object Storage Service (5/6)
• Bootiful Azure: To Production! (6/6)
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This is part 6 of a 6 part series, with new posts Mondays and Thursdays, introducing Microsoft Azure for Spring developers. I couldn't have put this together without input from Microsoft's Asir Vedamuthu Selvasingh, Yitao Dong, Bruno Borges, Brian Benz and Theresa Nguyen. You can find the code for this series on Github. Hit me up on Twitter (@starbuxman) as you're reading the installments with any feedback or questions. You can also learn more about Microsoft Azure in my Spring Tips (@SpringTipsLive) installment, Bootiful Azure

Here are all the installments:

• Bootiful Azure: Taking Your First Steps with Microsoft Azure
• Bootiful Azure: SQL-based data access with Microsoft SQL Server
• Bootiful Azure: Global Scale Data Access with CosmosDB
• Bootiful Azure: Integration with Azure Service Bus
• Bootiful Azure: Object Storage Service
• Bootiful Azure: To Production!
…

Suppose you want to use Spring Boot, but you don’t want to @EnableAutoConfiguration. What should you do exactly? In an earlier article I showed that Spring is intrinsically fast and lightweight, but one of the short pieces of advice improve startup time was to consider manually importing the Spring Boot autoconfigurations, instead of sucking them all in automatically. It won’t be the right thing to do for all applications, but it might help, and it certainly won’t hurt to understand what the options are. In this piece we explore various ways of doing manual configuration and assess their…

In this week's installment I talk to Google Cloud developer advocate, fellow Java Champion and prolific speaker and open source contributor in the Kubernetes and Spring communities, Ray Tsang.

Listen to the Podcast on SoundCloud or on iTunes, among other places.

This is part 5 of a 6 part series, with new posts Mondays and Thursdays, introducing Microsoft Azure for Spring developers. I couldn't have put this together without input from Microsoft's Asir Vedamuthu Selvasingh, Yitao Dong, Bruno Borges, Brian Benz and Theresa Nguyen. You can find the code for this series on Github. Hit me up on Twitter (@starbuxman) as you're reading the installments with any feedback or questions. You can also learn more about Microsoft Azure in my Spring Tips (@SpringTipsLive) installment, Bootiful Azure

Here are all the installments:

• Bootiful Azure: Taking Your First Steps with Microsoft Azure
• Bootiful Azure: SQL-based data access with Microsoft SQL Server
• Bootiful Azure: Global Scale Data Access with CosmosDB
• Bootiful Azure: Integration with Azure Service Bus
• Bootiful Azure: Object Storage Service
• Bootiful Azure: To Production!
…

Hi Spring fans! In this installment of Spring Tips, we look at how to integrate Spring with JavaFX, a UI framework that supports building rich desktop applications.

speaker: Josh Long

We are pleased to announce that Spring Cloud Task 2.1.0.RC1 is now available on Github and the Pivotal download repository. Many thanks to all of those who contributed to this release.

What's New?

As a follow up to 2.1.0.M2, this release primarily encompasses minor enhancements and bug fixes.

What Do You Think?

We look forward to your feedback on these new features in Github, StackOverflow, Gitter, or directly via Twitter to @michaelminella or @cppwfs!

Spring Cloud Task Home | Source on GitHub | Reference Documentation

This post was authored by Vedran Pavić

On behalf of the community I’m pleased to announce the releases of Spring Session BOM Bean-SR2 (based on Spring Session 2.1.3.RELEASE), Apple-SR8 (based on 2.0.9.RELEASE), and 1.3.5.RELEASE. These maintenance releases bring a couple of bug fixes together with the usual dependency upgrades.

Complete details of these releases can be found in the following changelogs:

• 2.1.3.RELEASE

• 2.0.9.RELEASE

• 1.3.5.RELEASE

Project Page | Documentation | Issues | Gitter | Stack Overflow

The Spring Framework has migrated its entire history of issues from Jira to GitHub. The goal of this blog post is to provide you with context and details about this move.

Migration Details

The entire 15+ year history of every Spring Framework issue, and every comment, has been imported into GitHub. There is a lot to consider in such a move, so let's take a tour and go over some details.

Links

If you have a link to an existing issue, e.g. https://jira.spring.io/browse/SPR-16751, you'll be redirected to the corresponding GitHub issue. If you actually mean to go to the Jira issue, append the query parameter redirect=false. On the GitHub side, the imported issue has a link…