In this blog, I want to look at - and demonstrate - some of the many new features in Spring Boot 1.2 that make the lives of those coming from, or otherwise building on, Java EE easier.

It's worth mentioning that a lot of this support has been possible with Spring before, of course, but now with Spring Boot 1.2, it's just so darned easy!

First, here's an example program with notes after.

package demo;

import org.glassfish.jersey.jackson.JacksonFeature;
import org.glassfish.jersey.server.ResourceConfig;
import org.springframework.boot.SpringApplication;
import org.springframework.boot…

I am pleased to announce that the second release candidate for Spring Boot 1.2.0 is available now in the Spring milestone repository. This is mainly a bug fix release, although we did manage to sneak in a fantastic community contribution which adds support for Undertow as an embedded Servlet container.

For a complete list of changes, and for upgrade instructions, see the Spring Boot 1.2 Release Notes on the WIKI. The reference documentation has also been updated to cover new features.

As usual, please report any problems using the project Issue tracker.

On behalf of the Spring Roo team, I am pleased to announce the release of Spring Roo 1.3.0, the first version released by DISID Corporation as project lead.

Spring Roo is a rapid application development tool for Java, allowing you to create full web enterprise applications in just minutes.

This is the first time that Spring Roo jar files have been published to Maven Central! As always, the release is available in the Spring IO repository.

The 1.3.0 release includes bug fixes and enhancements as well as several new features:

• Now Roo has complete support for JDK 8:
  • run Spring Roo with JDK 8

  • run generated applications with JDK 8
• Update Felix to 4.4.1

For full details on the changes made in the release, please refer to the Release Notes in Jira

For more project specific information please see the Project Page | GitHub

Please try out the updates and provide feedback.

As always, you’ll also find Roo on Twitter - either follow @SpringRoo or just include #SpringRoo in your tweets. The next version 2.0 will be amazing, the best is coming up. Stay tuned!

Recently, a friend of mine tweeted out a challenge:

"Name a framework in which you can create a new app expose a REST service with a database and deploy it to the cloud in five minutes. #grails"

The moment I spotted that tweet, I responded, "Spring Boot + Spring Data REST"! I realized he was kindly pointing out how easy it is to build RESTful services with Grails (a great framework). But I couldn't resist showing the ease and power of Spring Data REST.

To prove my point, I couldn't resisting crafting a screencast. In the linked screencast, I show how über easy Spring has made it to pick the parts for your app from http://start.spring.io, define your domain, and then…

On behalf of the Spring XD team, I am very pleased to announce the first milestone release of Spring XD 1.1 and the 1.0.2 maintenance release.

Download Links:

• 1.0.2.RELEASE: zip, 1.1.0.M1 RELEASE: zip

In addition to bug fixes, Spring XD 1.0.2 now supports Apache Hadoop 2.5.1. Pivotal PHD 2.1 and Cloudera CDH 5.1.3.

The 1.1 M1 release includes bug fixes and enhancements as well as several new features:

• Run a Spark Application as a batch job
• Python based processors and sinks
• Kafka source and sink
• HDFS sink supports writing to a Kerberized Hadoop Cluster
• LDAP Authentication
• Modules can be created using Java @Configuration classes as an alternative to XML
• Redis sink and JDBC Source
• Hadoop distribution updates. Support for Apache Hadoop 2,4.1/2.5.1 (default), Pivotal PHD 2.0/2.1, Cloudera CDH 5.2, and Hortonworks HDP 2.1. Apache Hadoop 2.2 support was removed
• Configurable location of Spring XD’s top level node in Zookeeper
…

Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This week I'm in sunny Sofia, Bulgaria for the Java2Days software conference. As usual, this show is way too much fun and the crowd's bigger and better than ever!

1. Spring Boot 1.2.0 RC1 is now available! This release moves embedded Servlet containers to Tomcat 8 or Jetty 9, adds a new @SpringBootApplication annotation, adds JavaMail support, and registers additional Spring Boot actuator support
2. Spring Session 1.0.0.RC1 is here with loads of features!
3. Speaking of using Spring with ZeroTurnaround, join ZeroTurnaround's Adam Koblentz and I on Nov 20th as we look at using JRebel and Spring Boot to deliver a one-two developer productivity punch without equal
4. Want to learn more about the Reactor project and the role of asych I/O in microservices? Check out the upcoming Reactor webinar…

I'm pleased to announce the release of Spring Session 1.0.0.RC1.

For full details on the changes made in the release, please refer to the changelog. The highlights of this release include:

• WebSocket support. See the websocket sample for details.
• Support for multiple simultaneous sessions in a single browser. Refer to the users sample for an example.
• Simplified configuration with @EnableRedisHttpSession and AbstractHttpSessionApplicationInitializer
• Support for background task to cleanup expired Redis sessions. See spring-session/gh-59
• Added spring-session-data-redis pom to make declaring dependencies more concise.
• Hazelcast Sample
…

Recorded at SpringOne2GX 2014.

Speakers: Andy Clement, Martin Lippert

Slides: http://www.slideshare.net/SpringCentral/developer-tooling-whats-new-and-whats-next

In this talk we take a look at the latest changes and new features of the Spring Tool Suite, the Eclipse-based IDE that comes packed with support for Spring, Groovy, Grails, Gradle, AspectJ, and Cloud Foundry. We dive into the new ways the tooling makes it easy and convenient to develop enterprise applications that are based on Spring Boot and how the Spring Tool Suite integrates will all the different parts of Spring IO. In addition to that we will show the Java8 language tooling that comes as part of the Spring Tool Suite and demonstrate how to get the most out of Java8 in your projects. In the second part of this presentation we take a look at our vision for how we are going to move developer tooling itself into the cloud era. We provide a sneak peek under the hood of what we are working on for the next generation of developer tooling. We will demonstrate what future cloud-based developer might look like, how real Java language tooling can look and feel when running in a browser-based code editor, and show how every developer can smoothly migrate into this new world of cloud-based developer tooling. All this is based on Flux, a new project at eclipse.org, that aims at providing new and innovative ways to move towards cloud-based tooling in a smooth, seamless way.

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Recorded at SpringOne2GX 2014.

Speaker: Venkat Subramaniam

No Slides at speaker request

There is a good amount of excitement about the new version of Java. The big evolution of course is the lambda expressions. In this presentation we will dive into the language features in Java 8, take a look at some of their nuances, and look at ways to put them to good use. In addition to looking at lambdas we will also dive into the Streams capabilities and also some of the features in Java 8 that make all these possible.

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