"You are always a student, never a master. You have to keep moving forward." -Conrad Hall

"The empires of the future are the empires of the mind." -Winston Churchill

"You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose." -Dr. Seuss

"Good students are good at all things." -Marissa Mayer

"The person who never made a mistake never tried anything new." -Albert Einstein

Warning: if you're a seasoned developer, than this may not be the post you're looking for. Keep reading, anyway. I'll bet you know some developers who are taking their first…

We are pleased to announce that Gradle dependency management plugin 0.5.1.RELEASE is now available from Maven Central, Bintray, and the Gradle Plugin Portal. For more information about how the plugin can improve your Gradle builds, please read the introductory blog post.

This maintenance release fixes an issue with the support for Maven-style exclusions. In addition, 0.5.0 introduced a new task, dependencyManagement, that you can use to diagnose your project's dependency management. More details can be found in the project's README.

In STS 3.6.4 we introduced ".properties" editor support, for editing Spring Boot configuration properties.

Soon thereafter, people started asking about support for ".yml" files as well. We are proud to say that the ".yml" support is now reality.

Check out the 5 minute video demo to see this in action:

The Spring Boot Yaml editor is built on top of YEdit. STS adds boot-specific content-assist, validation, hover-infos and hyperlink detectors.

It can be tried out today from STS's nightly update site and is planned to be released as part of STS 3.7.0 near the end of June 2015.

We are pleased to announce that the latest maintenance release for Spring AMQP (1.4.5.RELEASE) is now available. This contains just a few bug fixes since 1.4.4.

In addition, the first milestone release for the 1.5 release is also available (1.5.0.M1). A release candidate will be available in a month or so, with the GA expected later in the summer.

The main features of this release are highlighted below:

##Class-level @RabbitListener

It is now possible to define the @RabbitListener annotation at the class level. Together with method-level @RabbitHandler annotations, this allows a single…

Speaker: Josh Long

Slides: https://speakerdeck.com/joshlong/smarter-service-to-service-invocation-with-spring-cloud

Spring Cloud 1.0 is here! It offers a powerful way to create and consume microservices. As you introduce new services, you introduce integration problems: services can be shaky, they can disappear and - as they're often exposed over HTTP - they require a bit more footwork than in-process method invocations. In this webinar, we'll focus specifically on how Spring Cloud integrates service registration (e.g.: Eureka, Consul, or Zookeeper), declarative REST clients (with Netflix's Feign), reactive programming and the circuit breaker pattern with Hystrix to support easy, robust service-to-service invocations.

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

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

Speaker: Erdem Gunay, Turkcell

Turkcell launched a personal cloud storage service few years ago. Adding new business features was costly in terms of time and budget on the legacy solution. The user experience needed to be improved. Finally, it was decided to build a new solution where Spring Boot and Spring Framework projects play crucial role as the backbone. The project was completed just in 6 months starting from scratch. The solution was built on top of Spring Boot and many Spring IO Platform projects, allowing the development team focus on business logic instead of configuration & integration details. The project has been divided into deployable modules (API, backend, migration, test automation) accessing micro services that are responsible for one task only. Join Erdem for a review of the migration effort and new architecture - all enabled by Spring Boot.

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I'm pleased to announce the release of Spring Security SAML 1.0.1. This release is passive to 1.0.0 the highlights of which are:

• Added support for Spring Security 4.0
• Added integration guide with Okta
• MaxAuthenticationAge time supports longer expiration times than 21 days
• Deployment without JKS keystore is now supported
• Service provider can now define multiple assertion consumer endpoints with same binding
• Minor fixes and documentation improvements

Project Site | Documentation | Changelog

Speakers: Marten Deinum

Spring has been around since the release of “J2EE Design and Development” in 2002. Spring and Java have evolved quite a bit since that time. In those years a lot of applications have been developed. All those "legacy" applications that are around have proven their value and that is why they lasted. In this session we will explore how we can improve our legacy applications by doing some refactoring or redesign (component based development) but also by introducing (newer) Spring IO technologies.

Tuesday, May 12th, 2015 2:00PM GMT (London GMT) Register

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Recorded at SpringOne2GX 2014.

Speaker: Dustin Whittle

Applied Spring Track

Slides: http://www.slideshare.net/SpringCentral/performance-testing-crashcourse

The performance of your application affects your business more than you might think. Top engineering organizations think of performance not as a nice-to-have, but as a crucial feature of their product. Those organizations understand that performance has a direct impact on user experience and, ultimately, their bottom line. Unfortunately, most engineering teams do not regularly test the performance and scalability of their infrastructure. Dustin Whittle shares the latest performance testing tools and insights into why your team should add performance testing to the development process. Learn how to evaluate performance and scalability on the server-side and the client-side with tools like Siege, Bees with Machine Guns, Google PageSpeed, WBench, and more. Take back an understanding of how to automate performance and load testing and evaluate the impact it has on performance and your business.