Dear Spring Community,

I am happy to announce the new release of our Eclipse-based tooling today: The Spring Tool Suite (STS) 3.6.4 and the Groovy/Grails Tool Suite (GGTS) 3.6.4.

Highlights from this release include:

• updated to Eclipse Luna SR2
• Pivotal tc Server updated to 3.1.0
• Spring Boot properties editor (including content-assist, hovers, navigation, and errors/warnings)
• improved launch support for Spring Boot apps
• support for Groovy 2.4

To download the distributions, please go visit:

• Spring Tool Suite: https://spring.io/tools/sts/all
• Groovy/Grails Tool Suite: https://spring.io/tools/ggts/all

Detailed new and noteworthy notes can be found here: STS/GGTS 3.6.4 New & Noteworthy.

This is the final release of the GGTS bundle. Please take a look at the New and Noteworthy for further details. STS 3.7.0 is scheduled to ship in late June 2015, shortly after the Eclipse Mars release.

Enjoy!

Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This week I am at DevNexus in Atlanta, GA along with a handful of Spring team members and Spring community luminaries. I'll be presenting a talk on getting started with Spring Boot and I hope you'll join me, or one of the many other talks on Spring team:

• Spring 4 Web Applications by Rossen Stoyanchev
• Cloud Native Apps with Spring Cloud by Spencer Gibb
• Building microservices with Scala, functional domain models and Spring Boot by Chris Richardson
• What is new in Spring Integration 4? by Marius Bogoevici
• Spring Data REST - Data Meets Hypermedia by Greg Turnquist and Roy Clarkson
• IoT Realized - The Connected Car by Michael Minella
• Keeping It Clean - Lessons learned from Open Source on how to polish code by Phillip Webb
• Spring Integration Java DSL - A Deep Dive by Gary Russell
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Recorded at SpringOne2GX 2014.

Speaker: Grant Shipley, RedHat

Developing for the Cloud Track

Slides: http://www.slideshare.net/SpringCentral/spring-your-apps-into-the-cloud-with-a-paa-s

Whether you have one or a million visitors accessing your Spring web app, they are all going to demand a great user experience regardless of what it takes for you to deliver it. This invariably means quick page loads and fast response times every single time. When things go south, you just throw more hardware at the problem and increase your caches and buffers, right? Wrong. Toss in an infrastructure that resides on the cloud and now you’ve got a really interesting problem on your hands. I’ll leave the marketecure slides at the door, this is a hands-on technical talk in which we’ll deploy an application to the cloud and then turn up the heat by leveraging the right mix of elasticity and auto-scaling.

Recorded at SpringOne2GX 2014.

NOTE: this project has been renamed Spring Cloud Connectors and is part of the larger spring cloud umbrella project.

Speaker: Scott Frederick, Ramnivas Laddad

Developing for the Cloud Track

Slides: http://www.slideshare.net/SpringCentral/simplify-cloud-applicationsusingspringcloud

Developing an application to a cloud platform involves working with deployed application's environment and connecting to services. Spring Cloud, a new project, simplifies these tasks in a variety of cloud platforms including Cloud Foundry and Heroku. Spring Cloud makes it possible to deploy the same artifact (a war or a jar) to multiple cloud environments. It supports multiple clouds through the concept of Cloud Connector and provides out of the box implementation for Cloud Foundry and Heroku. Spring Cloud is designed for extension, making it simple to create a cloud connector for other cloud platforms. Spring Cloud also supports connecting to multiple services through the concept of service connectors. Out of the box, it provides support for many common services, but also makes it easy to extend it to other services. While Spring Cloud can be used by applications using any JVM language and framework, it further simplifies Spring applications through Java and XML-based configuration. In this talk, we will introduce the Spring Cloud project, show how you can simplify configuring applications for cloud deployment, discuss its extensibility mechanism, and put it to good use by showing practical examples from the field.

Recorded at SpringOne2GX 2014.

Speaker: Ken Kreuger, Rob Winch

Web / JavaScript Track

Slides: http://www.slideshare.net/SpringCentral/spring-one2gx-2014holyintegrationtest

Spring MVC Test can help greatly to thoroughly test controllers including their configuration. However for browser based clients we are not able to easily interact with the application as a user does. For example, a user would request a page that contains a form, fill out a form, submit the form, some Java Script may execute, and then the user would see some sort of result. In this presentation, we will provide an overview of testing Spring Web applications . We will see that see that by combining Spring MVC Test & HtmlUnit we are able to able to easily interact with our application in the same way (including JavaScript execution) users do. We will also see how we can easily create reusable components that represent our views, so that as we refactor our application our tests can easily be updated. Finally, we will see how we can combine these techniques with BDD to find our holy grail of integration testing.

Recorded at SpringOne2GX 2014.

Speaker: Gunnar Hillert

Web / JavaScript Track

Slides: http://www.slideshare.net/SpringCentral/creating-modular-test-driven-spas-with-spring-and-angularjs-41166049

Single-page Applications (SPA) are all the rage these days and with them there is an avalanche of new tools, libraries and frameworks we need to know. But what does this mean for us as Spring developers? In this session we will give you an overview of the current landscape and illustrate the choices the Spring XD team has made for its user interface. What do I use to write SPA applications? How do I integrate them into existing Spring-based backends? How do I build them? Can I integrate them into my existing Gradle or Maven build processes in order to achieve complete build automation? How do I integrate realtime messaging using Spring's SockJS/WebSocket support? In this talk we will answer these and many more questions. We will cover frameworks such as AngularJS, Bootstrap, RequireJS; tools like Bower, Grunt, Gulp; and also talk about testing using Karma and Protractor.

This post is a guest post by Activiti co-founder and community member Joram Barrez (@jbarrez) who works for Alfresco. Thanks Joram! I'd like to see more of these community guest posts, so - as usual - don't hesitate to ping me (@starbuxman) with ideas and contributions! -Josh

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