Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring. This week has been an amazing week! I started it in Krakow, Poland, talking to developers at the wonderful 33rd Degree conference, then headed to Warsaw, Poland, where I presented at the amazing local Spring Labs user group. Tomorrow, it's off to London for Devoxx UK where I'll be helping spread the Spring Boot awesome. Then, Friday, it's off to Toronto where I'll be meeting with 4 customers and teams using Spring next week. What's this mean for you? Well, for one, if you're in London and Toronto, say hi! It also means that conference season is on in full force. We try to be wherever we're needed. What conferences (besides SpringOne2GX 2014, of course!) are you going to this year? I'd love to know which conferences you're doing this year. Help us prioritize, please. Thanks! (Twitter hashtag #twiSpring)

• Spring Boot 1.1's been released! It includes new support for GSP, Spring Social, Velocity, Freemarker, Spring Mobile, Spring HATEOAS, and much, much, more. LOTS of new autoconfiguration support too: GemFire, HornetQ, Elasticsearch, Solr, Spring Social, Spring Integration, Spring Mobile and Spring HATEOAS. Honestly, you might just be better off reading the blog and coming back. There's so much awesome there.
• Our CFSummit conference is being held right now in San Francisco! There's lots of amazing stuff around Cloud Foundry. I found more than a few press announcements, but here's one from eWeek on some of the new stuff in PCF 1.3.
• If you are not the the CloudFoundry Summit in San Francisco this week, you may have missed Matt Stine's amazing talk: Cloud Foundry and Microservices: A Mutualistic Symbiotic Relationship. You heard it here first: CloudFoundry and Spring Boot are going to make a killer combination for Microservices.
• In celebration of the Spring Boot release, the amazing Greg Turnquist is presenting Building your app management tools with Spring Boot on July 8th.
• Join Glenn Renfro as he takes you through Spring Integration 4.0's Boot/JavaConfig/Annotation driven experience in Spring Integration Done Boot-ifully on June 17th.
• Casey Doolittle and Phil Dutson present the ultimate e-commerce feature fire drill: Building a Shopping Cart in 24 Hours using Spring on July 15th
• Check out this replay of the talk from last year's SpringOne2GX 2013, SpringOne2GX 2013 Replay: Space Exploration: APIs for Secure Interconnected HTML5 Applications with Sencha Space
• The amazing Craig Walls gave a great talk on Spring Social last year at SpringOne2GX 2013, check it out! Spring Social 1.1 just dropped, after all. Now's a good time to catch up and get connected to the services your customers are.
• Greg Turnquist published a very nice blog on the process of contributing a Spring IO guide. Greg's also one of the main contributors to the guides, so if he approves, then you know it's good. Rock on, open source!
• Speaking of that new guide, you should check it out: it's about how to get started building a SOAP service with Spring WS. (Hey, it's still a thing for a lot of people, and Spring WS's new Java configuration-based endpoint model is very well suited to the task!)
• Ramnivas Laddad, one of the brains behind AspectJ, one of the architects behind Cloud Foundry, and our local cloud ninja, recently did a webinar on Spring Cloud, which makes it easy to consume PaaS-bound services in a clean, dependency-injection centric way: check it out!
• Manuel Jordan, an amazing member of our community (editor on a few of my books, winner of the Springy Award for his amazing contributions on the forum where he answered more questions than anyone, and all around nice guy) in Arequipa, Peru, put together an epic series of blogs introducing various parts of Spring. Check them out. Great job, Manuel!
• The softwarecave blog has a post on using Hibernate with Spring. I dig it, but would remind people that there's little to no reason to use XML anymore, and - even if there were a reason, there's little to no reason to write this sort of configuration anymore, at all. Just use Spring Boot. It's amazing what a difference an @EnableAutoConfiguration makes!
• The GeekAByte blog has a nice post on the various types of annotation-centric autowiring possible with Spring. Check it out!

Spring Boot 1.1.1 has been released and is available now from repo.spring.io and maven central. This release will form part of the Spring IO Platform and offers a number of new features and improvements over 1.0. For upgrade instructions and "new and noteworthy" features please see the release notes.

NOTE: Please use v1.1.1 as there was a minor issue with the initial v1.1.0 release

Here are some of the highlights:

Templating Support

Alongside the existing Thymeleaf and JSP support, Additional templating options have been added for Freemarker, Velocity and Groovy. Groovy templates are…

Speakers: Casey Doolittle and Phil Dutson, ICON Health & Fitness

Creating a transactional website that is secure, fast, and responsive is a challenge all on its own. Creating one in 24 hours borders madness, however with the resources that Spring brings to the table, this can be accomplished. Casey Doolittle and Phil Dutson were issued the task of creating a charity-benefit website two days before the sale started. By leveraging the flexibility and power that various Spring components bring to the table, this mighty feat was accomplished. During this talk Casey and Phil will discuss the how and why of using Spring 3.2.4, Spring Web MVC, and Spring Security 3.1.4 as their framework of choice to get the project done on time.

Pivotal Disclaimer: These are not Pivotal employees, nor is this a "best practices" session or represent Pivotal recommendations. This is an great story of how 2 guys used the tools they already knew to respond to a ridiculous requirement!

Tuesday, July 15th, 2014 3:00 pm BST Time (London, UTC+1) Register

Tuesday, July 15th, 2014 10:00 am Pacific Daylight Time (San Francisco, UTC-07:00) Register

Speaker: Greg Turnquist

Spring Boot lets you write apps better than ever. But did you ever think about writing all those support scripts and tools you inevitably need with Boot as well? In this webinar, see how the Spring team has already picked up and run with Spring Boot CLI as a powerful way to manage things like all open issues against the 60+ getting started guides. See how to monitor application logs using a little Spring Integration, Spring WebSocket+STOMP, and other technologies, all with some lightweight Boot+Groovy code.

Tuesday, July 8th, 2014 3:00 pm BST Time (London, UTC+1) Register

Tuesday, July 8th, 2014 10:00 am Pacific Daylight Time (San Francisco, UTC-07:00) Register

Recorded at SpringOne2GX 2013 in Santa Clara, CA

Speaker: Jason Cline

The proliferation of mobile devices poses challenges for corporate IT departments. End users want to choose their own device, but also want to access corporate web applications, but the need for security often means that they have to surrender management of their device to their IT department. With this in mind, we've created Sencha Space -- a secure and managed environment for deploying HTML5 business applications that run on multiple devices. During this session Jason Cline will discuss the Sencha Space SDK's device-level options for secure data storage, as well as show you how to implement the Invoke API to connect web applications with one another. You'll also experience how easily applications can be centrally managed without the need to access the device.

Learn more about Spring MVC at http://projects.spring.io/spring-framework/

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Recorded at SpringOne2GX 2013 in Santa Clara, CA

Speaker: Craig Walls

The modern web is rich with APIs that can be consumed by other applications, enabling an integrated experience for the users who hold accounts on the websites that front those APIs. Many of these APIs are secured with OAuth, an authorization specification for securing REST APIs. Spring Social is an extension to the Spring Framework that enables Spring applications to establish connections with those APIs on behalf of their users with little or no need to muck about in the intricacies of OAuth. In this session, we'll explore how Spring Social brings API connectivity to Spring applications. We'll also uncover the newest features of Spring Social that make it easier than ever to link your application's users to the identities they maintain on various sites across the web.

Learn more about Spring Social at http://projects.spring.io/spring-social/

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Greetings Spring community,

Today we have just published the first getting started guide written and submitted by a community member: Producing a SOAP web service.

Maciej Walkowiak crafted a guide that served his needs and decided to contribute to the community. It lined up with expressed interest in such a guide from others. Maciej used https://github.com/spring-guides/getting-started-guide as his template and submitted a pull request to it containing his crafted guide.

We were able to merge all of his commits into an independent repository, apply some editorial polish, and after final review…

Speaker: Ramnivas Laddad

Slides: https://speakerdeck.com/ramnivas/abstracting-paas-services-to-be-portable-with-spring-cloud

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, and extension points for other cloud platforms. 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.

Learn more about Spring Cloud at http://projects.spring.io/spring-cloud

Learn more about CloudFoundry at http://cloudfoundry.org/learn

Learn more about Heroku at https://devcenter.heroku.com/

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Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring. This week's an exciting week! Well, let's be honest. They're all exciting weeks. But in particular, this week's going to make a lot of people happy. Watch the blog and I'll see you back here next week to recap! :)

1. Oh my goodness! Spring Boot 1.1.0.RC1 is now available! The new release maintains the epic with support for Spring Data Elasticsearch, HornetQ, and Spring Social, and a lot more! Grab the latest release, kick the tires, and feedback on Twitter or GitHub.
2. Dr. Mark Pollack has just announced that the latest release of Spring XD, 1.0.0.M7 is now available. The new release provides a lot of great new features. My favorite is the ability to pin data to a certain stream - think of this as correllation using a message's content - so that you can preserve stateful operations. Think of this as a great way to route and divide messages based on a useful business key. There's a great example in the release notes.
3. Azul rockstar Gil Tene gave an amazing talk on reducing latency for SpringOne2gX 2013 that is now available online. Gil is one of our industry's mad scientists. I haven't yet seen this talk, but I will, and I highly recommend that you do too. Azul makes high performance, low latency JVMs both as appliances and as deliverable software. His talks thus stem from a lot of thankless research and development that I'd just as soon spare myself by watching, and learning from, his talks. Go, Gil!
4. June webinars are here! Michael Minella in Spring Batch 3.0.0 on June 10th, and Glenn Renfro in Spring Integration Done Boot-ifully on June 17th.
5. Spring ninja Greg Turnquist has put together a teaser post on using the amazing when.js Promises/A+ implementation in a front-end REST client in advance of his SpringOne2GX 2014 talk. Check out the post and his talk at the conference!
6. Ramnivas Laddad, a Spring ninja, original AspectJ leaders, and architects behind Cloud Foundry, has just posted a very cool look at Spring Cloud, which makes consuming client services from different middle/infrastructure services (a database, a message queue) on various Platforms-as-a-Service (PaaSes) a simple matter of platform-decoupling configuration.
7. The replay of ADP's Jeffery Sologov's talk looking at the pitfalls of building large scale applications is now up! Check it out!
8. ttp://twitter.com/JakubJirutka chimed in to tell us about this epic Spring Expression Language (SpEL)-powered implementation of the Bean Validation API (JSR 303/349). The GitHub offers an interesting point, "it’s especially very useful for cross-field validations that are very complicated with a plain Bean Validation." I love the examples, too:

    
   @SpELAssert(value = "password.equals(passwordVerify)",
           applyIf = "password || passwordVerify",
           message = "{validator.passwords_not_same}")
   public class User {
     private String password;
     private String passwordVerify;
   }
   

   Nice job!

9. A hat tip to the amazing Brian Dussault for finding this: Zuul is a nifty looking application configuration management solution that offers a clean Spring client API.

10. You know what made my day yesterday? A HystrixInvocationHandler. An InvocationHandler is used by the JDK (and Spring's rich proxying subsystem) to create proxies that wrap beans. This InvocationHandler wraps method invocations on a given bean in Netflix's OSS Hystrix project's Command objects. Hystrix Commands wrap functionality and provide/support resiliency patterns. I can't wait to see more of what becomes of Spencer Gibb's Halfpipe project!
11. Our pal David Welch is at it again, this time with an interesting project called Spring Tiered, which aims to simplify even further (and normalize) the development of HATEOAS based services. Interesting...
12. Also, speaking of building (and consuming) resilient services, check out Chris Richardson's fantastic talk from SpringOne2GX 2013 on powerful abstractions for consuming services asynchronously.
13. Also, I put together a post talking about getting started with Maven (and alternatives) and Spring