Speaker: Josh Long https://www.twitter.com/starbuxman

Hi Spring fans! In this installment, we'll look at some of the many *Util classes in the Spring framework. These utility classes are already there and can be a major time-saver, if you know where to look!

Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This week I'm in Omaha, Nebraska, speaking to customers and tonight I'll be presenting at an event co-sponsored by the Omaha, JUG and the local Omaha, Spring Users Group, talking about reactive Spring. Don't be shy, come out and say hi!

• Sébastien Deleuze just introduced the 1.0.0.M1 relese of extensions supporting using Project Reactor in the Kotlin language
• Spring REST Docs lead Andy Wilkinson just announced Spring REST Docs 1.2.0.RC1. Try it out now! For a good example of Spring REST Docs, scroll down and you'll see a very nice one from a community member.
• Spring Cloud Data Flow contributor and all-around great human Thomas Risberg
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Speakers: Nicolas Fränkel, Hybris

With the Spring Boot stack you can kickstart your Spring project in a matter of minutes. For both developers using Spring and microservices adopters, Spring Boot has been a resounding success.

Favoring Spring Boot over the traditional Spring framework comes at a cost, you have to let Boot be in control and it might hurt when you decide to get back in the driving seat.

Come to this 60 minute webinar and discover how auto-configuration and the different flavors of conditionals work through the creation of a Spring Boot starter. You’ll come away with an…

Update: Kotlin is now natively supported by reactor-core and reactor-test without requiring any additional extensions.

I am excited to announce the release of the first milestone of Reactor Kotlin Extensions, which provides Kotlin extensions for Reactor API.

It provides support for Kotlin types like KClass, takes advantage of Kotlin reified type parameters and provide various extensions to allow more expressive code. You can see bellow a quick comparaison of Reactor with Java versus Reactor with Kotlin + extensions.

On behalf of everyone who contributed, it's my pleasure to announce that Spring REST Docs 1.2.0.RC1 has been released and is available from https://repo.spring.io/milestone/.

What's new?

A complete overview of what's new in 1.2 can be found in the release notes. The following are some of the highlights.

Improved Asciidoctor integration

REST Docs now has a new module, spring-restdocs-asciidoctor, that makes it easier to use the generated snippets in your documentation. A new macro means that you can import multiple snippets for the same operation in a single line. This update to the samples…

Speaker: Josh Long

Hi Spring fans! In this tip, we'll look at deploying to, and integrating with, embedded (like Apache Tomcat, Eclipse Jetty, and RedHat's Undertow) and standalone Servlet containers (like the Wildfly application server) in a Spring Boot application.

On behalf of the team, I am excited to announce the release of the third milestone of Spring Cloud Data Flow 1.2.

Note: A great way to start using this new release(s) is to follow the release matrix on the project page, which includes the download coordinates and the links to the reference guide.

Highlights of the 1.2 M3 release:

Companion Metadata Artifact

As part of the long awaited feature to improve access to app properties info for both shell and Dashboard, we are introducing a new optional artifact for both Stream and Task applications - we are calling it the “companion metadata artifact”…

Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This week I'm visiting with customers and am presenting at the first Devoxx US event in San Jose, California. If you're around, don't hesitate to stop by and say hi at the Pivotal booth on the expo hall.

As usual, we've got a lot to cover so let's get to it!

• Spring Cloud Dalston RC1 is now available! Get the bits while they're hot!
• Spring Cloud Task contributor Glenn Renfro just announced Spring Cloud Task 1.2.0.M2
• Marius Bogoevici just announced Spring Cloud Stream Chelsea RC1
• Spring Cloud Vault lead Mark Paluch just announced the 1.0.RC1 of the project
• last week I continued my Spring Tips series, this time looking at the reactive HTTP client, the WebClient, in preliminary builds of Spring Framework 5 (as used in preliminary builds of Spring Boot 2.0).
• check out this webinar on domain-driven design by one of …

On behalf of the community, I am pleased to announce that Release Candidate 1 (RC1) of the Spring Cloud Dalston Release Train is available today. The release can be found in our Spring Milestone repository. You can check out the Dalston release notes for more information.

Notable Changes in the Dalston Release Train

Vault

Spring Cloud Vault Config is a new project that provides client-side support for externalized secret management in a distributed system via Hashicorp Vault.

Config Server

Config Server now has support for multiple backends via a Composite pattern. This allows for combinations…