Spring Data Release Evans has been around for a while and it's more than time to finally introduce you to the latest and greatest features we shipped with it.

There's a lot to cover since major enhancements have gone into the commons module. Those changes already have made it into some store modules and will go on and sneak their way into others over time, too. All of them are already available for at least Spring Data JPA. That said, lets jump right in.

Advanced support for Java 8

Java8 has now been around for a while and previous Spring Data release trains already added fundamental support…

Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This week I've been at Silicon Valley Code Camp, JAX London and Geekout UK talking to developers about how to build scalable, microservice-centric Spring Boot applications on Cloud Foundry. It's been a lot fun talking to enthusiastic developers (on both sides of the Atlantic!).

Without further ado, let's get on with the roundup!

• Spring Boot co-lead Phil Webb just announced the availability of Spring Boot 1.2.0.M2 which includes, among other things, auto-configuration for Jersey, log4j, commons-dbcp support, a smarter disk usage health indicator and improved RabbitMQ support
• Spring and Groovy Tool Suite lead Martin Lippert has just announced the latest and greatest release, 3.6.2, which is a maintenance release that includes an update to the latest Eclipse Luna SR1 installation.
• Also, Spring Boot co-lead Phil Webb just announced the 1.1.8 release of the 1.1x line of Spring Boot…

Dear Spring Community,

I am happy to announce the new release of our Eclipse-based tooling today: The Spring Tool Suite (STS) 3.6.2 and the Groovy/Grails Tool Suite (GGTS) 3.6.2.

This is a maintenance release that updates STS/GGTS to the just released Eclipse Luna SR1 release. This includes a number of fixes across the various projects that are included in the STS distribution, together with fixes for the Java8 compiler and tooling in Eclipse.

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 3.6.2 New & Noteworthy.

NOTE: Both tool suites ship on top of the latest Eclipse Luna 4.4 SR1 release as 64bit and 32bit…

I am pleased to announce that Spring Boot 1.2.0.M2 is available now in the Spring milestone repository. This release adds a number of improvements and new features over M1. Highlights include:

• Full configuration of Jackson ObjectMapper features from your application.properties file.
• Auto-configuration for Jersey.
• Support for Log4j2.
• Support for commons-dbcp2.
• A new "disk usage" health indicator.
• Improved RabbitMQ auto-configuration.

For a complete list of changes, and for upgrade instructions, see the Spring Boot 1.2 Release Notes on the WIKI. The reference documentation also continues to…

Spring Boot 1.1.8 has been released and is available now from repo.spring.io and Maven Central.

This maintenance release includes a security patch to the "white label error" page which prevents potential cross-site scripting attacks; as such it is a recommended upgrade for all Spring Boot users. For a complete list of changes please refer to the issue tracker.

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Are you heading to Silicon Valley Code Camp 2014?   If you are, we invite all of the Java community members to stop by the Pivotal Booth and talk to Pivotal engineers about the latest innovations in Java SE, in Spring, Groovy, Grails, Redis, RabbitMQ, Tomcat, Cloud Foundry and Hadoop. The exhibit space is open Saturday 8:00am – 5:00pm, and Saturday from 8:30am to 3:30pm, so there should be plenty of time to get your questions answered.  See below for details about our sessions and awesome giveaways - come find us! 

SATURDAY - OCTOBER 11, 2014           
9:45 AM

• Josh Long — Spring advocate at Pivotal
• Building "Bootiful Applications with Spring Boot
• Room: 8401

11:45 AM

• John Hann, — Pivotal
• Introducing Rave.js: Zero-config JavaScript Applications
• Room: 8401

1:45 PM

• Ilayaperumal Gopinathan — Pivotal
• Simplifying Big Data development at Spring XD
• Room: 8403

SUNDAY - OCTOBER 12, 2014

9:15 AM

• Cornelia Davis — Platform Engineer at Pivotal
• The Self-healing, Elastic Runtime that is Cloud Foundry
• Room: Room: 4302

10:45 AM

• Cornelia Davis — Platform Engineer at Pivotal
• Running Your Spring Apps in the Cloud
• Room: 4302

Visit us at the Pivotal Code Camp booth for technical expert conversations on Cloud Foundry, Spring, Groovy, Grails, Redis, RabbitMQ, Tomcat, Hadoop and much more.

Also, don't miss the Pivotal Web Services Hoodie Push!  Build a REST service with Spring Boot, push it live to run.pivotal.io and get a hoodie!  You can do it ahead of time, and show it running to us, or use our laptops at the booth.

 

 

Save the date for SpringOne2GX 2015!  We hope you will mark your calendar and join us again! SpringOne2GX 2015 will be held September 14 - 17, 2015 at the Marriott Marquis in Washington DC.

Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This week, I've been at the Couchbase Connect conference talking to developers about Spring Data Couchbase (and Spring Boot, Spring XD, Spring Session, and more..). Fun show, fun crowd! Next week, I'll be at JAX London and Geekout UK, so be sure to say hi if you're around.

Now, with that, let's get on to the roundup..

1. The good Dr. Pollack just announced the 1.0.1 release of Spring XD, the easiest way to build data-integration and ingestion solutions. It may be only a 1.0.1 release, but make no mistake: there are some very cool features in this release, including improved administrative and administrative UI features.
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We're exploring ways to help developers create rich, modern front-ends that integrate easily with Spring back-ends. If you attended SpringOne this year, you've already seen some of the things we've been working on:

1. Hypermedia support in Spring Data REST presented by Greg Turnquist, Oliver Gierke, and Roy Clarkson
2. RaveJS: Spring Boot concepts for JavaScript applications by John Hann
3. Differential Synchronization and JSON Patch by Craig Walls and me

In short, We want to make it easy to communicate efficiently between a Spring back-end and a client and to easily integrate the best and most…

Spring Cloud (the new umbrella project announced in September) has reached a milestone, its first, and fresh jars are available in the repo.spring.io repository. Spring Cloud is going to follow a "release train" model for releases, a bit like Spring Data, but we haven't got a cool name for this one yet, so it's just 1.0.0.M1. The modules that are part of this release are

• Spring Cloud Config: Centralized external configuration management backed by a git repository. The configuration resources map directly to Spring Environment but could be used by non-Spring applications if desired.

• Spring Cloud Netflix: Integration with various Netflix OSS components (Eureka, Hystrix, Zuul, Archaius, etc.).

• Spring Cloud Bus: An event bus for linking services and service instances together with distributed messaging. Useful for propagating state changes across a cluster (e.g. config change events).

• Spring Cloud Security: A set of primitives for building secure applications and services with minimum fuss.

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