On behalf of the Spring Integration team I’d like to announce release of one more Spring Integration Extension. This time it is Spring Integration for Server Message Block and its artifact is spring-integration-smb.0.5.0.RELEASE, which is available in the Release Repository and Maven Central.

The project has been around for some time but only recently gained enough community traction to warrant a release. So, first of all, big thanks to you, the community, for your contributions!

The Java CIFS Client Library has been chosen as a Java implementation for the CIFS/SMB networking protocol. Its SmbFile abstraction is simply wrapped to the Spring Integration "Remote File" foundations like SmbSession, SmbRemoteFileTemplate…

Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! We've got a lot to get into this week - even more so than usual! So, let's get into it!

Starting to put together topics for the next season of Spring Tips: what would you like to see discussed?

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This week there are a lot of great SpringOne Platform 2016 replays available online thanks to our very own Pieter Humphrey!

• Don't miss Stéphane Maldini's SpringOne Platform (S1P) 2016 talk introducing Reactor 3.0
• or this S1P 2016 talk by Sebastien Deleuze and Stephane Maldini on reactive programming options for the JVM (introducing Reactor and RxJava, among others)
• Yahoo! Marcin just tweeted some exciting news: Pact support has been added to Spring Cloud Contract
• Noriaki Tatsumi ( from Capital One) gave a nice S1P 2016 talk on operating a high velocity organization with Spring Cloud
• Google's Ray Tsang and Bret McGowen put together a nice talk on using gRPC for Spring Developers
• in this S1P 2016 talk, Ben Hale, Paul Harris and Stephane Maldini introduce some …

Recorded at SpringOne Platform 2016. Speakers: - Ben Hale, Paul Harris, Stephane Maldini Slides: http://www.slideshare.net/SpringCentral/designing-implementing-and-using-reactive-apis

The Java community is on the cusp of a major change in programming model. As the industry moves towards high-performance micro-service architectures, the need for a reactive programming model becomes clear. In this session, the lead developers of the Cloud Foundry Java Client will talk about what led them to choose a reactive API. Using that project as a lens, they'll explore how they designed and implemented…

Recorded at SpringOne Platform 2016 Speakers: Ray Tsang, Bret McGowen, Google Slides: http://www.slideshare.net/SpringCentral/grpc-101-for-spring-developers gRPC is a high performance, open source, general RPC framework that puts mobile and HTTP/2 first. gRPC is based on many years of Google's experience in building distributed systems - it is designed to be low latency, bandwidth and CPU efficient, to create massively distributed systems that span data centers, as well as power mobile apps, real-time communications, IoT devices and APIs. It's also interoperable between multiple languages.

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Recorded at SpringOne Platform 2016. Speakers: Noriaki Tatsumi, Capital One Slides: http://www.slideshare.net/SpringCentral/operating-a-high-velocity-large-organization-with-spring-cloud-microservices

Releases are hard for many large organizations with complex systems. Challenges like manual processes, change approvals, compliances, legacy systems, varying deployment targets, and scheduled downtimes prevent companies from releasing fast and frequently. Many of us know that when Continuous Delivery is embraced and microservices architecture is done right, those challenges can become things of…

Recorded at SpringOne Platform 2016. Speakers: Sebastien Deleuze, Stephane Maldini Slides: http://www.slideshare.net/SpringCentral/a-lite-rx-api-for-the-jvm

RxJava is a fully fledged and widely used solution to develop Reactive applications, but some interesting alternatives exist. After an overview of the main Reactive APIs available and of Spring Boot Reactive support, this workshop introduces how to develop Reactive applications using Reactor Core 2.5-a powerful and fast alternative. We will learn how to use Flux (N values) and Mono (single value) types with various exercises. This new…

Recorded at SpringOne Platform 2016. Speaker: Stéphane Maldini Slides: http://www.slideshare.net/SpringCentral/reactor-30-a-jvm-foundation-for-java-8-and-reactive-streams

The apparent simplicity of the publisher/subscriber model as exposed in Reactive-Streams can be deceiving. The relatively fast release cycle for libraries in that space is not a myth, concurrency is hard. To keep out undesired side-effects, most Reactive projects have adopted a vertical approach potentially excluding developers from decision-making around execution model or sometimes language.

What if we were able to leave…

On behalf of the team, I am pleased to announce that Camden Service Release 4 of Spring Cloud is available today. The release can be found in our Spring Release repository and Maven Central.

This release includes primarily bug fixes. Release notes can be found on our wiki.

The following modules were updated as part of Camden.SR4:

• Spring Cloud Commons 1.1.7.RELEASE
• Spring Cloud Netflix 1.2.4.RELEASE
• Spring Cloud Sleuth 1.1.1.RELEASE
• Spring Cloud Contract 1.0.3.RELEASE

And, as always, we welcome feedback: either on GitHub, on Gitter, on Stack Overflow, or on Twitter.

Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This week I'm in San Francisco and New York City talking to developers and toiling on the final edits to the O'Reilly book Cloud Native Java (almost there!). Also, marketing ninja Pieter Humphrey is ramping up the S1P 2016 replays, so fasten your seat belt and check the S1P 2016 YouTube playlist for the most current releases. We've got a lot to cover this week so let's get to it!

• Spring Cloud Task ninja Glen Renfro just announced Spring Cloud Task 1.1.1 with a fast following, bug-fix only, 1.1.2 release.
• our latest and greatest Spring Boot team member Madhura Bhave just announced Spring Boot 1.5.0.RC1
• Spring Integration guru Artem Bilan just announced Spring Integration 5.0.M2
• Spring Batch and Spring Cloud Task lead Michael Minella just announced Spring Batch 4.0 complete with a lot of niceties and - in particular a feature I've wanted forever - an easy way to build instances of the more sophisticated ItemReader and ItemWriter intances, including the FlatFileItemReader…