In this article we look at how to bind a Spring Boot application to data services (JDBC, NoSQL, messaging etc.) and the various sources of default and automatic behaviour in Cloud Foundry, providing some guidance about which ones to use and which ones will be active under what conditions. Spring Boot provides a lot of autoconfiguration and external binding features, some of which are relevant to Cloud Foundry, and many of which are not. Spring Cloud Connectors is a library that you can use in your application if you want to create your own components programmatically, but it doesn't do…

I'm pleased to announce the release of Spring Social Facebook 2.0.1.RELEASE. This maintenance release addresses a handful of bugs that were discovered following the 2.0.0.RELEASE two weeks ago. For complete details regarding this release, see the changelog.

Note that if you're using Spring Social Facebook with Spring Boot, the Spring Boot starter for Spring Social Facebook still references 1.1.1.RELEASE. But you can override that by explicitly declaring the 2.0.1.RELEASE dependency in your Maven or Gradle build. See the Spring Social Showcase/Spring Boot example to see how this is done.

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I'm pleased to announce the release of Spring Security 4.0.1.RELEASE. This release is the first maintenance release of the 4.0 line and focusses on fixing any major issues that were found in the new release. For complete details on the release, refer to the Change Log.

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We are pleased to announce the release of Spring Security Kerberos 1.0.0.RELEASE. I would like to start by saying thank you for all community members who helped us by either creating PR's for new features or simply providing feedback.

Here is a guick summary of changes what went through with two release candidates and a GA release:

• We did a lot of housekeeping to put a whole project up-to-date due to a long overdue from a first milestone.
• Spring team added KerberosRestTemplate while all other new features came from a community.
• Community contributions are:
  • KerberosLdapContextSource which allows to authenticate against Windows AD with existing Kerberos credentials to get more info about a logged-in user.
  • Tweaks to Kerberos negotiation which allows better interoperability with WinRM.
  • Changes how SpnegoEntryPoint is used which allows to fallback to other authentication methods if Kerberos negotiation fails.
• …

Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This week I'm in Bangalore, India, at the Great Indian Developer Summit. Lots of the Spring Team are at JAXConf in Germany this week as well.

A friendly reminder, if you're in the south west region of Europe, and Barcelona, Spain, specifically, and looking for fun in the sun, I can think of no better option than Spring I/O Conference, which is next week. Don't miss the many great talks from many amazing Spring team and Spring community members. I'll be there and looking forward to meeting and seeing you all!

Without further ado, let's get…

Recorded at SpringOne2GX 2014.

Speaker: Marco Vermeulen

G&G Special Topics

Slides: http://www.slideshare.net/SpringCentral/cucumber-groovy

BDD in a nutshell The Good and the Bad of BDD Cucumber as a soution Mini Cucumber Demo Grails Cucumber Plugin Sample Application

Recorded at SpringOne2GX 2014.

Speakers: Baruch Sadogursky, Frederic Simon - JFrog

G&G Special Topics

Slides: http://www.slideshare.net/SpringCentral/the-groovy-puzzlers

Remember the epic Java Puzzlers? Here’s the Groovy version, and we have some neat ones! Even though we are totally a Grails shop here at JFrog, some of these had us scratching our heads for days trying to figure them out. And there is more! Contributions from the truly Groovy senseis, including @glaforge, @aalmiray, @tim_yates, @kenkousen make this talk an unforgettable journey to Groovy's O_O.

Recorded at SpringOne2GX 2014.

Speaker: Ryan Gardner, Dealer.com

Core Spring Track

Slides: http://www.slideshare.net/SpringCentral/zookeeper-config2014-2c-41123708

Application configuration is an evolution. It starts as a hard-coded strings in your application and hopefully progresses to something external, such as a file or system property that can be changed without deployment. But what happens when other enterprise concerns enter the mix, such as audit requirements or access control around who can make changes? How do you maintain the consistency of values across too many application servers to manage at one time from a terminal window? The next step in the application configuration evolution is centralized configuration that can be accessed by your applications as they move through your various environments on their way to production. Such a service transfers the ownership of configuration from the last developer who touched the code to a well-versed application owner who is responsible for the configuration of the application across all environments. At Dealer.com, we have created one such solution that relies on Apache ZooKeeper to handle the storage and coordination of the configuration data and Spring to handle to the retrieval, creation and registration of configured objects in each application. The end result is a transparent framework that provides the same configured objects that could have been created using a Spring configuration, configuration file and property value wiring. This talk will cover both the why and how of our solution, with a focus on how we leveraged the powerful attributes of both Apache ZooKeeper and Spring to rid our application of local configuration files and provide a consistent mechanism for application configuration in our enterprise.

Dear Spring community,

We are pleased to announce the Milestone 1 for the Spring Integration Hazelcast Support project. Use the Milestone Repository with Maven or Gradle to try it in early access.

compile "org.springframework.integration:spring-integration-hazelcast:1.0.0.M1"

First of all, special thanks to Eren Avşaroğulları, who initiated the project and is a responsive and energetic contributor. Please, don't miss his talk with us on SpringOne this year!

Overview

Spring Integration implements well-known Enterprise Integration Patterns and provides lightweight messaging within Spring…