On behalf of the team, I am pleased to announce the GA release of Spring Cloud Data Flow 1.1. Follow the links in the getting started guide to download the local server implementation and shell to create Stream and Tasks.

General highlights of the 1.1 GA Release include:

• Builds upon Spring Boot 1.4, Spring Cloud Camden SR2, Spring Integration 4.3 and Spring Cloud Task 1.1 release improvements.

• Adds LDAP, Basic and File based backend authentication

• Improvements to OAUTH backed authentication

• LDAP authentication is now supported with SSL

• Adds a form-based login page for non-OAUTH backend authentication methods such as the LDAP, Basic and File-based options

• Adds the ability to pass application specific properties via YAML file. This is particularly useful when deploying streams that require many deployment properties to be set.

• Portable deployment properties for memory, disk and cpu are in place for support across various runtime implementations.

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Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This week I'm.. home! It's Thanksgiving this week here in the states, after all. I am sure that I speak for the entire Pivotal team when I say that we are grateful for you, the most wonderful community on the planet. Thanks so much, and if you're celebrating Thanksgiving, then happy Thanksgiving to you! When you're finished with your meal - barely able to keep an eye open - I hope you'll find a comfy arm chair and take in some of the content in this week's roundup.

• the good Dr. David Syer doesn't always do view templating, but when he does..
• check out this replay of Spring Security lead Rob Winch and ninja Joe Grandja as they look forward to Spring Security 4.1
• continuing our Spring Tips series, last week we looked at Spring Cloud Data Flow as a way to quickly build stream-processing solutions
• Hurray! Congratulations to the Apache Geode project who just saw their project promoted to an Apache top level project
• I really liked this post from Spring Cloud ninja Ryan Baxter investigating distributed tracing with Spring Cloud Sleuth
• wanna start trouble? Then check out this …

On behalf of the team, I am pleased to announce the release of the first release candidate of Spring Cloud Data Flow for Kubernetes 1.1.

Spring Cloud Data Flow for Kubernetes provides support for orchestrating long-running (streaming) and short-lived (task/batch) data microservices on Kubernetes.

The most significant change for this release can be found in the Spring Cloud Deployer for Kubernetes project. Thanks to community contributions from Donovan Muller and Rémon (Ray) Sinnema, we have added support for defining volumes and volume mounts for deployed apps. We support the volume types that have a model supported by the Fabric8 Kubernetes client's kubernetes-model…

We are pleased to announce that Spring Cloud Task 1.1.0.RELEASE is now available via Github and the Pivotal download repository. Many thanks to all of those who contributed to this release.

Spring Cloud Task 1.1.0 offers the following features:

This is the generally available release (GA) for 1.1.0. This release addresses key enhancements to the project to allow for better coverage of operational concerns for tasks in a cloud environment. Features new to the 1.1.0 line include:

• Updated error handling - 1.0.x stored stack traces that were the result of task executions within the TaskExecution#exitMessage field, requiring that this field perform double duty. First it was available for orchestration of tasks (similar to StepExecution#exitStatus in Spring Batch) as well as the storage of stack traces for debugging. In the 1.1.0 release, error messages have been moved to a new field TaskExecution#errorMessage so that each field has it's own, dedicated use.

• Updated customization options for partitioned batch jobs - In the 1.0.x line for Spring Cloud Task, when launching workers as tasks, there was not a way to customize the command line arguments provided to them. This is an issue in environments like CloudFoundry where you can use command line args to customize configuration without the need to re-push your app. In the new 1.1.0 release, we provide the ability to customize command line arguments via the CommandLineArgsProvider which is similar in functionality to the EnvironmentVariablesProvider introduced in 1.0.2.

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Recorded at SpringOne Platform 2016. Speaker: Dr. David Syer Slides: http://www.slideshare.net/SpringCentral/building-applications-with-angular-js-and-spring-security

In this presentation we show some nice features of Spring Security, Spring Boot and Angular JS working together to provide a pleasant and secure user experience. Things to consider are cookies, headers, native clients, various security vulnerabilities and how modern browser technology can help us to avoid them. In this series we show how nicely features of the component frameworks can be integrated simply to provide a pleasant…

NOTE: If you are reading this in December 2023 or later, there was a 1.16 release of JMustache that added "inheritance" support. This is an optional Mustache spec feature but was previously unimplemented in JMustache. It allows you to do the "layout with included body" type templating that is very common in web apps, and needed in the sample for this article. The sample has been updated in Github to use inheritance instead of the workaround with lambdas presented below.

I don’t do much server-side templating, but when I do…​ well frankly, I tend to forget things. Every template language has its strengths and weaknesses, and they all have syntax to remember, and more frequently to forget. Recently I completed some work on the old Spring Petclinic, converting it to use Thymeleaf in the view layer, and re-organizing the code to be a bit more "modern". I enjoyed working with Thymeleaf 3, and found…

Hi Spring fans! In this tip, we'll quickly look at how to build stream-processing pipelines with Spring Cloud Data Flow

Recorded at SpringOne Platform 2016. Speakers: Rob Winch, Joe Grandja Slides: http://www.slideshare.net/SpringCentral/to-spring-security-41-and-beyond

Exploits are continually evolving making security hard. This is compounded by the fact that the technologies we need to secure are a moving target.

In this talk we will discuss how to easily secure an application with Spring Security 4.1. We will focus on some of the new features found in Spring Security 4.1 and discuss the future direction of Spring Security.

This post is a guest post by community member Matti Tahvonen (@MattiTahvonen), who works as a developer advocate in Vaadin Ltd, the company that originally developed Vaadin Framework and provides commercial services and extensions for it.

The first stable release of the official Spring integration library for Vaadin was released a bit over a year ago. The feedback has been great and many Spring developers, who have wanted to stay on the safe “backend side”, have discovered a new way to use their existing Java skills to build good-looking web UIs. Using Vaadin Spring, your UI code lives in…