Welcome to another installation of This Week in Spring! Today, I spoke at the San Francisco JUG to a packed room and now I'm off to St. Louis for a day of customer meetings. Lots of great stuff to look at as we kick off the new year so let's get to it!

• Check out Spring Integration contributor Artem Bilan's post on the latest-and-greatest on Spring Integration including the debut of a new Spring Integration extension supporting zipping and unzipping of messages in flight.
• the EuregJUG Maas-Rhine published a post on its site about.. the site! Which is all Spring Boot. Check it out.
• Check out the replay of Andy Wilkinson's SpringOne2GX 2015 talk on documenting REST APIs with Spring REST Docs
• Check out the replay of Fatima Casau's SpringOne2GX 2015 talk on using Spring Boot and Groovy
• Marius Bogoevici's SpringOne2GX 2015 talk on stream processing …

Dear Spring Community,

The Spring Integration team wants to wish you a Happy New Year!

We have been super-busy working on new features and improvements. Here is an overview of our recent activities around Spring Integration and Spring AMQP:

• We made several maintenance releases of Spring Integration 4.2.x, the most recent being Spring Integration 4.2.4. All other maintenance versions will be released only on demand.

• Spring Integration 4.3 is planned for this summer. Furthermore, for version 5.0, we started looking more closely at incorporating Reactive Streams into the Framework.

• Similarly with the Spring AMQP project, the current maintenance version is 1.5.3 and 1.6 has been started, too.

• Spring Integration Java DSL 1.1.1 is available, too. You can find several Java DSL samples in the latest Spring Integration Manual, by the way.

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Recorded at SpringOne2GX 2015. Track: Web / Javascript track Speaker: Rob Winch Slides: http://www.slideshare.net/SpringCentral/state-of-securing-restful-apis-with-spring The many benefits of a RESTful architecture has made it the standard way in which to design web based APIs. For example, the principles of REST state that we should leverage standard HTTP verbs which helps to keep our APIs simple. Server components that are considered RESTFul should be stateless which help to ensure that they can easily scale. We can leverage caching to gain further performance and scalability benefits.

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Recorded at SpringOne2GX 2015. Track: Big Data Speaker: Marius Bogoevici Slides: http://www.slideshare.net/SpringCentral/stream-processing-at-scale-with-spring-xd-and-kafka 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. Near-realtime data processing has started to become more prevalent, and high-throughput messaging systems such as Apache Kafka have emerged as key building blocks. Focusing on developer experience and productivity, Spring XD makes it…

Recorded at SpringOne2GX 2015. Track: Web / Javascript Track Speaker: Andy Wilkinson Slides: http://www.slideshare.net/SpringCentral/documenting-restful-apis An API's documentation is a vital part of making it easy to understand and easy to use. RESTful APIs are no different. In this talk we'll look at what should be included in your RESTful API's documentation and, just as importantly, what should be omitted. Using real-word examples, both good and bad, we'll discuss how the documentation should be structured so that it's informative, succinct, and easy to read. Having identified what…

Recorded at SpringOne2GX 2015. Track: Core Groovy Track Speaker: Fatima Casau Slides: http://www.slideshare.net/SpringCentral/using-groovy-grails-in-your-spring-boot-project The emergence of Spring Boot has significantly improved the development of applications with Spring, allowing you to create applications faster by improving the configuration and removing repetitive tasks. Some of the dependencies that can be included are support for ‘Groovy’ and also the use of ‘GORM (Grails Object Relational Mapping)’ as well as ‘Hibernate’ for persistence. We will see where and how to use them in…

Kicking off 2016, here are my personal recommendations for European developer conferences with particularly strong Spring content in the first half of the year:

• Topconf Linz: Feb 1-3, featuring various Spring-related talks in the Cloud & Microservice Architectures track and a dedicated Spring Boot workshop ahead of the show. An English-language conference in my home-city which happens to be a tech hotspot in Austria...
• JAX Germany: Apr 19-21, with a well-established dedicated Spring track and several Spring-related talks across other conference tracks. Note: JAX is primarily a German-language conference, so the Spring talks there will be delivered in German as well.
• Spring I/O Barcelona: May 19-20, our new annual European Spring conference in its second iteration, at a perfect time for visiting the city of Barcelona! This will…

Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring and welcome back from what I hope was a restive, fun new year!

This week, we mark the fifth anniversary of This Week in Spring which Adam Fitzgerald and I started (based on some discussion with Keith Donald in January 2011) fresh from the 2010 holidays.

Since then I've done my level-headed best to publish it every week (no exceptions! no missed weeks!) before midnight in Hawaii on Tuesday, every week, no matter what timezone I find myself in for that week! The world's a big place, so from the perspective of someone sitting in, say, New York City, it may seem sometimes like this blog goes up midday Monday (00:00AM in various Asian countries) or early morning Wednesday (23:59 in Hawaii) - that's a lot of variability! But I assure, you it's always…

Welcome to my first blog post as a Spring Cloud team member :)

It's been a month since I joined and it's worth to share some of the interesting things that took place during that time.

If you've been reading any of my posts at my Too Much Coding blog then you know that I'm crazy about two things - testing and microservices. Since all that I do at the moment is microservice related today's post will be about testing.

The Spring Cloud projects

When I joined Spring Cloud team I did a quick scan of the Github and it turned out that we have quite a few projects to govern including:

• Spring Cloud Netflix (including Eureka Discovery Service and Registry, Hystrix, Feign and RIbbon support)
• Spring Cloud Zookeeper
• Spring Cloud Consul
• Spring Cloud Sleuth
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