I’m pleased to announce the availability of Spring Cloud Connectors 1.2.0 RC1.
This release should be fully backward compatible with 1.1.0.RELEASE for applications using the library. Libraries that extend the core Connectors library should be recompiled against 1.2.0 RC1, and may encounter a few small extension API changes. Barring any issues, this will be the only RC before 1.2.0.RELEASE.
Here's an overview of what's new in 1.2.0:
Spring Cloud Connectors Core
AMQP
AmqpServiceInfo no longer validates that the path element of a URI contains a value, which allows the default RabbitMQ vhost to be used.
URL validation in AmqpServiceInfo was relaxed such that QPID URL format is supported as well as RabbitMQ URL format.
AmqpServiceInfo now supports holding a list of URIs for providers that support multiple host connections.
We are pleased to announce the Spring for Apache Hadoop 2.2 RC1 milestone releases. This is the last planned release before the 2.2 GA release in approximately 2 weeks.
The most important changes/enhancements in the Spring for Apache Hadoop 2.2 version are:
Remove support for running with JDK 6, Java 7 or later is now required
Improvements to the HDFS writer to support syncable writes and a new timeout option
In the recent years, drastic increases in data volume as well as a greater demand for low latency have led to a radical shift in business requirements and application development methods. In response to these demands, frameworks such as RxJava and high throughput messaging systems such as Kafka have emerged as key building blocks. However, integrating technologies is never easy and Spring XD provides a solution. Through its development model and runtime, Spring XD makes it easy to develop highly scalable data pipelines, and lets you focus on writing and testing business logic vs. integrating and scaling a big data stack. Come and see how easy this can be in this webinar, where we will demonstrate how to build highly scalable data pipelines with RxJava and Kafka, using Spring XD as a platform. In the recent years, drastic increases in data volume as well as a greater demand for low latency have led to a radical shift in business requirements and application development methods. In response to these demands, frameworks such as RxJava and high throughput messaging systems such as Kafka have emerged as key building blocks. However, integrating technologies is never easy and Spring XD provides a solution. Through its development model and runtime, Spring XD makes it easy to develop highly scalable data pipelines, and lets you focus on writing and testing business logic vs. integrating and scaling a big data stack. Come and see how easy this can be in this webinar, where we will demonstrate how to build highly scalable data pipelines with RxJava and Kafka, using Spring XD as a platform.
Learn more about Spring XD at http://projects.spring.io/spring-xd
We are pleased to announce that Spring Batch 3.0.4.RELEASE is now available via Maven Central, Github and the SpringSource download repository. This is the 4th maintenance release for the 3.0.x branch of Spring Batch and addresses a number of bugs and a few minor enhancements. Many thanks to all of those who submitted the many pull requests that went into this release.
I'm pleased to announce the availability of Spring Social 1.1.2.RELEASE. This includes Spring Social's core, web, security, and config modules. This release fixes a dependency issue from last week's 1.1.1.RELEASE.
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If a book as horrible as Twilight can sell millions of copies and be made into an even worse movie, how many copies can a book with Groovy vampires sell? (Spoiler: Not as many.) Yes, this topic may be silly, but the technologies used (Groovy, Ratpack, MongoDB, Grails, REST) are (un)deadly serious.
Maintaining Grails plugins can be a real challenge given the high expectations and demands. Apart from supporting many users, you're tasked with making sure that the plugin is compatible with a range of Grails versions - both old and new. Your plugin must also be compatible with multiple development environments (OSs, SDKs, etc,) and play nice with the wealth of other plugins that exist in the ecosystem. How can we make sure that all these high standards are met? Testing, and lot's of it!
In this article we continue our discussion of how to use Spring Security with Angular JS in a "single page application". Here we show how to write and run unit tests for the client-side code using the Javascript test framework Jasmine. This is the eighth in a series of articles, and you can catch up on the basic building blocks of the application or build it from scratch by reading the first article, or you can just go straight to the source code in Github (the same source code as Part I, but with tests now added). This article actually has very little code using Spring or Spring Security, but…
