Dear Spring community,

I'm pleased to announce that Spring Framework 4.1.1 is available now. As the first maintenance release in the 4.1 line, this release contains a wide range of fixes for regressions and other issues reported against 4.1 GA. A big thank you to all the issue reporters out there!

4.1.1 also comes with a selection of minor enhancements, for example: consistent handling of Java 8's Optional type, a Jackson ObjectMapper builder class with refined defaults, some requested JDBC refinements, as well as specific performance improvements.

-> List of resolved JIRA issues for Spring…

Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This week the Spring team is at JavaOne! There's been, and will be, lots to see! We're also hanging out at the booth, talking to as many users as possible. Check out the link I just give listing all the cool Pivotal (and non-Pivotal) talks at JavaOne. (Ahem. Naturally, I personally would love it if you made my talk - Spring4TW! - tomorrow morning at 8:30am at Parc 55, Cyril Magnin II/III!).

In addition to IoT, Big Data, and Microservice demos using NetFlixOSS on Spring, students were doing the coding challenge to build a REST service with Spring Boot and pushed to Pivotal Web Services in < 15 minutes to get the preshavedyak hoodie from American Apparel, and learning about the best PaaS for Java available on the market today; Java 8 / Tomcat 8 support was released just days ago, and there is strong support for Spring, Groovy and Grails.

• I really liked Michael Plod's Why I Recommend Spring webinar, now available online as a replay
• Last week, Activiti BPMN2 engine co-founder Joram Barrez and I gave a talk on how to build process (read: workflow) centric Spring applications, also now available online.
• Tuesday, Oct 21st, 2014 join Matt Stine for microservice architecture series #2: Architecting for Continuous Delivery: Microservices with Pivotal CF and Spring Cloud
• Thursday, October 23, 2014, 2014 Building “Bootful” UIs with Spring Boot and Vaadin
• Tuesday, November 4, 2014 - microservice architecture series #3 - Join Dr. Dave Syer on Security for Microservices with Spring and OAuth2
• Missed microservice architecture #1? Catch the replay of Building "Bootiful" Microservices with Spring Boot on the Spring Developer Channel
• Spring Boot 1.1.7 is now available!
• Setup Spring Security with Active Directory LDAP in Spring Boot Web Application (I just got asked about this at the Spring BOF yesterday!)
• There's been an interesting debate on microservices recently. "Uncle" Bob Martin has written up a post claiming that .jars and Ruby gems give you the same benefit of microservices. There's a great rebuttal (which I happen to agree with..) by Giorgio Sironi on his blog. There's even a nice wrapup of the whole discussion on InfoQ.
• I really dig Matt Stine's wind tunnel comparison of PaaSes. Up first: Heroku. I can't wait to see subsequent posts in the series!
• This post on using Spring Data Redis was published (and included in TWiS..) last year, but it came up again and I still thnk it's a worthy read
• The eHarmony blog has a nice post on how to setup Spring Batch Admin (the tricky parts..)
• In the you have to see it to beleive it department, did you know there's a Spring for Delphi (Spring4D) project? There are Spring-inspired C++, ColdFusion, JavaScript, .NET, Python, and numerous others. Cool to add this to the list.
• The Intertech blog has another installment on their epic Spring Integration tutorial. This one's on service activators - basically the Spring Integration escape-hatch so you can call regular Java objects.
• Benjamin Ball has a great writeup on using RabbitMQ and Spring
• Yashwant Chavan has a nice post on building a simple Spring Boot (with Spring MVC) example and editing it in Eclipse.
• Our pals at Codecentric are at it again! They've just released their first cut of their Spring Boot Admin. This looks like something that would fit nicely in the Spring Cloud project...
• This has to be one of the coolest Spring Boot presentations, ever! Careful, I don't recommend watching it full-screen if you get motion sickness! :)
• Are you stuck on Apache CXF but still want first-class security? This post looks at how to plugin Spring Security on top of CXF in minutes
• Biju Kunjummen did a nice job clarifying the differences between Spring's WebApplicationInitializer and ApplicationContextInitializer

Speaker: Matt Stine, Pivotal

Join Matt Stine to hear how you can architect systems that are optimized for continuous delivery, allowing you to innovate and deliver value faster and safer. Microservices, Pivotal CF, and Spring Cloud combine to create an operationalized architecture that enables enterprises to continuously deliver value at scale through rapid, iterative development, and to meet the needs of a mobile-first world.

Tuesday, Oct 21st, 2014 3:00PM BST (London GMT+01:00) Register

Tuesday, Oct 21st, 2014 10:00AM PDT (San Francisco GMT-07:00) Register

Speaker: Josh Long, Pivotal and Vaadin

It's been a long day, but you've done it: you've got a Spring Boot powered backend and now you need to build the UI that'll power the workforce and deliver next week. Vaadin, a UI framework that marries the ease of use of server-side Java and the rich, dynamic nature of client-side JavaScript, integrates well with Spring Boot and offers UI polish that would be hard to secure any other way. Join Spring developer advocate Josh Long and Vaadin evangelists for a look at how Vaadin and Spring Boot can get you to production quicker, and easier.

Thursday, October 23, 2014, 2014 3:00PM BST (London GMT+01:00) Register

Thursday, October 23, 2014 10:00AM PDT (San Francisco GMT-07:00) Register

Speaker: Dave Syer

Security for Microservices with Spring and OAuth2 OAuth2 is a lightweight security protocol that is well-suited for use with HTTP, the protocol at the heart of many modern architectures. Spring Security OAuth2 has a load of new features, not the least of which being the `@Configuration` support in version 2.0. Combine these with Spring Boot and you have a platform which can get you a secure HTTP service application in about 20 lines of code. This presentation shows how the combination of rapid development and production-ready features in the modern Spring stack are a perfect mixture for developing secure components in a system composed of microservices. We explore the new features in Spring OAuth2, guide you through the choice of which to use and when, and show how easy they are to enable quickly.

Tuesday, November 4, 2014 3:00PM GMT (London GMT) Register

Tuesday, November 4, 2014 10:00AM PST (San Francisco GMT-08:00) Register

Speaker: Michael Plod

Slides: https://speakerdeck.com/mploed/pivotal-webinar-why-do-i-recommend-spring

Is Spring the new legacy as quite a few people tell you on their blogs? I disagree on many levels. Throughout this session I will holistically detail without any polemics why I do recommend using the Spring Framework and its ecosystem. Aspects that will be covered include: operational impacts, ecosystem, coding and road maps. This presentation is aimed at IT managers, Architects and Developers alike.

Learn more about Spring IO: http://spring.io

Learn more about Spring IO Platform: http://spring.io/platform

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Speakers: Josh Long and Joram Barrez, Activiti

Slides: https://speakerdeck.com/joshlong/process-driven-applications-with-spring-boot

Today's applications are complex, distributed systems that - taken together - produce results. Tracking the flow of work through that system, however, becomes increasingly more painful as automated- and human-driven tasks are integrated into business processes. Business can't react to what it can't see. Business can't measure what it can't see. "Workflow" describes the sequence of processes through which a piece of work passes from initiation to completion. Workflow systems, like Activiti, describe and then execute these processes. Activiti is an open-source, Apache 2-licensed workflow engine that works with Spring and Spring Boot. In this webinar, join Spring Developer Advocate Josh Long and Activiti-ninja Joram Barrez for a look at how to distill, describe and reuse complex business processes using Spring (and Spring Boot) and Activiti.

Learn more about Spring Boot: http://projects.spring.io/spring-boot

Learn more about Activiti below!

Activiti project page: http://activiti.org/

Joram's blog: http://jorambarrez.com/blog

Activiti documentation: http://activiti.org/userguide/index.html

Activiti Github: https://github.com/Activiti/Activiti

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Are you heading to JavaOne 2014?   If you are, we invite all of the Java community members to stop by the Pivotal Booth (Booth Number 5201) 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 Monday, Tuesday from 9:30am – 5:30pm, and Wednesday from 9:30am to 4:30pm, so there should be plenty of time to get your questions answered.  See below for a map and booth details about our giveaways - come find us!  Lots of great stuff at the booth.

Pivotal technologists are also presenting a lot of sessions as well so be sure to add the following talks to your session builder and reserve a seat:
           
Josh Long — Spring advocate at Pivotal

• The Spring BOF [BOF3868]
• Spring 4TW! [CON3693]

Cornelia Davis — Platform Engineer at Pivotal

• Running Your Spring Apps in the Cloud [CON4327]

John Field — Solutions Architect at Pivotal

• Open Source Identity and Access Management Expert Panel, Part 3 [BOF3478]
• The Anatomy of a Secure Web Application Using Java [CON3479]

Guillaume Laforge — Groovy project manager at Pivotal

• Script Bowl 2014: The Battle Rages On [CON2939]
• Groovy in 2014 and Beyond [CON5996]
• Groovy in the Light of Java 8 [CON5839]

Martin Lippert - Principal Software Engineer at Pivotal

• Connecting the Eclipse IDE to the Cloud-Based Era of Developer Tooling [CON1739]

Oliver Gierke - Spring Data Project Lead at Pivotal

• REST Assured: Hypermedia APIs with Spring MVC [CON6071]

Cédric Champeau — Senior software engineer in the Groovy team at Pivotal

• Rethinking API Design with Groovy Traits [CON2425]

Interesting non-Pivotal Sessions

Groovy and Grails Puzzlers: As Usual—Traps, Pitfalls, and End Cases[CON1764]
Microservices on the JVM: A Practical Overview [CON4952]

Use Java, the Spring Framework, and Oracle Tuxedo to Extend Existing C/C++/COBOL Apps[HOL9447]

Visit us at the booth for technical expert conversations on Cloud Foundry, Spring, Groovy, Grails, Redis, RabbitMQ, Tomcat, Hadoop and much more. We'll have great demos in the booth about:

• Java EE and PaaS with Cloud Foundry via JBoss and WebLogic Buildpack demos
• Internet of Things, Hadoop with Spring XD Demos
• Microservice Architecture and PaaS with Spring Boot, Spring Cloud Demos

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.

Spring Boot 1.1.7 has been released and is available now from repo.spring.io and Maven Central.

This maintenance release 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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