Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This week I'm in London, UK; Paris, France (for the epic Devoxx France event where I'll be speaking with my buddy Matt Raible) and Stuttgart, Germany, where I'll be speaking at conferences and to customers! If you're around, don't hesitate to say "hi"!

• the new release of Spring Tool Suite is jam-packed with new features supporting Spring Boot and Cloud Foundry. Check the New and Noteworthy and get it while it's hot! (I've just gotten a new laptop, so I'm doing that right now, too!)
• last week in the latest installment of Spring Tips I looked at some the various utility classes in the Spring Framework
• I just presented at the premier Voxxed Days CERN event and the organizers interviewed the amazing Spring Framework lead Juergen Hoeller, and me (his biggest fan)
• don't miss the upcoming webinar on April 13th, Spring Boot Under the Hood
• Check out the Spring Team and Pivotal at OSCON Austin 2017…

We are pleased to announce that the third milestone for the Spring AMQP 2.0 release (2.0.0.M3) is now available.

36 JIRA Issues are included in this release, including bug fixes and a number of new features:

• Initial support for broker-less integration testing - the TestRabbitTemplate discovers listener containers in the application context and invokes those containers' listeners for send() and sendAndReceive() operations. We intend to flush out this capability with more features before GA, including routing, and simulation of the various exchange types supported by RabbitMQ. Feedback is welcome.

• Rollback with an external transaction manager is now consistent with local transactions.

• The 4.1.x amqp-client library is now the default.

• The RabbitTemplate now has an invoke() method which allows multiple operations to be performed sequentially on the same channel. This also enables features such as waitForConfirmsOrDie() provided by the underlying library, when sending multiple messages to the same channel.

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Dear Spring Community,

I am happy to announce the 3.8.4 release of the Spring Tool Suite, our Eclipse-based tooling.

Highlights from this release include:

• updated to Eclipse Neon.3
• completely revamped wizard for direct access to start.spring.io
• boot dashboard: support for local Spring Cloud CLI services
• boot dashboard: support for routes when deploying apps to CF
• fixed font rendering on main STS dashboard
• added support for Buildship 2.0
• improved reliability for boot dashboard when showing status of running boot apps
• issue tracking moved to GitHub Issues

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 3.8.4 New & Noteworthy.

STS 3.9.0 is scheduled to be released on top of Eclipse Oxygen 4.7 in early July 2017.

Enjoy!

Join the Spring Team and Pivotal experts at OSCON Austin May 10-11, 2017! Pivotal will be at booth # 104 9:45am - 7:00pm on Wednesday May 10 9:45am - 4:30pm on Thursday May 11

We will have experts available to talk to you about leading open source projects like Cloud Foundry, Spring Framework, Apache Tomcat, and much more. Stop by and learn about Cloud Native applications from the leaders at Pivotal.

Don't miss these talks on Cloud-Native applications, Microservices, Cloud Foundry, Product Management and much more!

Tutorials - Tuesday May 9

9:00AM - 12:30PM Ballroom F Tutorial: Cloud-native Java - Josh Long https://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon/oscon-tx/public…

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!

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.

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Java	Kotlin with extensions
Mono.just("foo")	"foo".toMono()
Flux.fromIterable(list)	list.toFlux()
Mono.error(new RuntimeException())	RuntimeException().toMono()
Flux.error(new RuntimeException())	RuntimeException().toFlux()
flux.ofType(Foo.class)	flux.ofType<Foo>() or flux.ofType(Foo::class)
StepVerifier.create(flux).verifyComplete()	flux.test().verifyComplete()

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…

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…