Recorded at SpringOne2GX 2014.

Speaker: Colin Harrington

Essential Grails Track

Slides: http://www.slideshare.net/SpringCentral/securing-yourgrailsapp2gx2014

Application security is not a concern that we can ignore. Vulnerabilities come from various angles, but it is important to stay aware and vigilant so we can recognize and thwart threats.

Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring!

If you're in the bay area this week, I'll be speaking at the Netflix OSS meetup in Los Altos talking about Spring Cloud on Wednesday and at Pivotal San Francisco's Open-Source Hub on the amazing Spring Session project on Thursday. I hope you'll join me for either or both! It's sure to be fun!

As usual, we've got a lot to cover, so let's get to it!

1. My pal (and Spring Boot co-founder!) Phil Webb and I gave the introduction to Spring Boot lesson at SpringOne2GX 2014 - check it out! Hopefully you'll have as much fun as we did! :)
2. DZone have published two nice Developers of the Week profiles, one for the good Dr. Dave Syer and one for Spring Batch lead Michael Minella
3. Adib Saikali put together a really nice article on InfoQ introducing the ways that Java 8 and Spring 4 win.
4. Readers of this roundup will know that I love me some JHipster, and so I am super excited to have JHipster founder Julien Dubois…

This post is a guest post by community member Julien Dubois (@juliendubois), a former SpringSource employee who now works for Ippon Technologies and is creator of the JHipster project. Thanks Julien! I'd like to see more of these guest posts, so - as usual - don't hesitate to ping me (@starbuxman)! -Josh

Introduction

JHipster, or "Java Hipster," is a handy application generator that will create for you a Spring Boot (that's the Java part) and AngularJS (that's the hipster part) application.

In a very short amount of time, JHipster has became very popular on Github, and it has been featured on online magazines - like InfoQ, Infoworld or SD Times - and in conferences all over the world - Paris, London, Montreal…

Speaker: Kenneth Kousen

Essential Grails Track

Slides: http://www.slideshare.net/SpringCentral/holy-grails

Learn Grails from basic principles to advanced concepts by building a small, but interesting, application. Learn Grails from basic principles to advanced concepts by building a small, but interesting, application.

Recorded at SpringOne2GX 2014.

Speaker: Jeff Scott Brown

Essential Grails Track

Slides: http://www.slideshare.net/SpringCentral/res-tful-grails2

Grails 2 includes a lot of features and functionality related to building RESTful services. These include an entirely new and more flexibile data binding system, runtime and compile time metaprogramming which greatly reduce the amount of code required in your RESTful services, a rich set of content negotiation tools and more.

Recorded at SpringOne2GX 2014.

Speaker: Graeme Rocher

Essential Grails Track

Slides: http://www.slideshare.net/SpringCentral/2-gx-2014-grails-30-preview

In this talk, Grails project lead Graeme Rocher will present a preview of the much anticipating version 3.0 rewrite of the Grails framework including presentation of the goals behind the changes and what will be achievable with the new version.

Speaker: Eugene Dvorkin

More Groovy Track

Slides: http://www.slideshare.net/SpringCentral/storm-twtterwebmd

With advances in distributed computing and creation of frameworks like Storm and Spark, building real-time, fault-tolerant, and scalable solutions to process huge volume of data in real-time has become easy. Storm is one of the most popular framework to develop real-time analytics and event processing applications. Storm enables to tackle real-time Big Data challenges the same way Hadoop enables batch processing of Big Data. One of the use cases of Storm is processing feeds from social networks in real-time. Social networks like Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Google+ became part of our life. By analyzing social networks, companies can process important information about their product, services, and provide real-time information to customers. In this talk, Eugene will provide introduction to Storm framework, explain how to build real-time applications on top of Storm with Groovy, how to process data from Twitter in real-time and architectural decision behind WebMD MedPulse mobile application.

Recorded at SpringOne2GX 2014.

Speaker: Peter Niederwieser

More Groovy Track

Slides: http://www.slideshare.net/SpringCentral/testing-java-groovy-spring-and-web-applications-with-spock

Spock is a popular testing framework (mainly) for Java and Groovy applications. After a short introduction, I will discuss Spock's Java and Groovy specific features, will show how Spock can be used for integration testing of Spring applications, and how combining it with Geb yields a powerful solution for acceptance testing of web applications. Finally, I will demonstrate how Spock can be extended to build out the test infrastructure for your project, and will showcase the latest features planned for the mythical Spock 1.0 release.

It was about six months ago that we started work on the 2.1 version of Spring for Apache Hadoop. We are now pleased to announce the general availability of version 2.1.0.

Beginning with the Spring for Apache Hadoop 2.1 version, we now only support Hadoop 2.0 APIs and no longer provide backwards compatibility with older Hadoop v1 distributions. If you need support for older Hadoop versions please use the 2.0.4 or 1.1.0 versions of Spring for Apache Hadoop.

The main new features for the 2.1 version are:

Configuration and Boot support:

• New @Configuration changes and improvements to the Boot auto configuration features. A good example of this support can be seen in the boot-fsshell DemoApplication example app
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