Recorded at SpringOne2GX 2014.

Speaker: Matt Stine

Slides: http://www.slideshare.net/SpringCentral/developing-microservices-for-paas-with-spring-and-cloud-foundry

Marc Andressen has famously said "Software is eating the world." What does that mean? We take it to mean that multiple industries with historically entrenched leaders are being disrupted by businesses built around a software core. These software factories are characterized by: tight feedback loops rapid iteration horizontal scaling mobile-first UX continuous delivery These factors have contributed to drive a change in how we approach infrastructure, which has taken the lead in adapting to meet these needs with the move to the cloud, and Platform as a Service (PaaS) offerings like Cloud Foundry have raised the level of abstraction to a focus on an ecosystem of applications and services. However, most applications are still developed as if we're living in the previous generation of both business and infrastructure: the monolithic application. Microservices - small, loosely coupled applications that follow the Unix philosophy of ""doing one thing well"" - represent the application development side of enabling rapid, iterative development, horizontal scale, polyglot clients, and continuous delivery. They also enable us to scale application development and eliminate long term commitments to a single technology stack. While microservices are simple, they are certainly not easy. It's recently been said that "microservices are not a free lunch." Interestingly enough, if you look at the concerns typically expressed about microservices, you'll find that they are exactly the challenges that a PaaS is intended to address. So while microservices do not necessarily imply cloud (and vice versa), there is in fact a symbiotic relationship between the two, with each approach somehow compensating for the limitations of the other, much like the practices of eXtreme Programming do the same. This session will describe architectural patterns for developing microservices:

• Service Decomposition
• API Gateways
• Stateless / Shared-Nothing
• Apps Configuration and Backing Service
• Consumption
• Fault Tolerance

Along the way we'll see how to leverage technologies such as Spring Boot and Reactor to develop microservices targeted at Cloud Foundry.

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Recorded at SpringOne2GX 2014.

Speaker: Ben Hale @nebhale

Slides: http://www.slideshare.net/SpringCentral/creating-restful-hypermediabased-microservices-with-spring-boot

As data-driven applications become ubiquitous, the services that provide the data are proliferating. As teams become responsible for more and more of these services, it becomes critical that they be designed and implemented in a way that is as lightweight as possible. This session will cover how to design micro-services as RESTful APIs and implement them with minimal code using Spring Boot. It will focus on API design using REST and HATEOAS, with live coding progressing from a tweet-length implementation all the way to a full-fledged app running in the cloud.

Along the way we'll see how to leverage technologies such as Spring Boot and Reactor to develop microservices targeted at Cloud Foundry.

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Speakers: Josh Long, Pivotal + Adam Koblentz - ZeroTurnaround

Slides: https://speakerdeck.com/joshlong/bootiful-jrebel

Spring Boot, the new convention-over-configuration centric framework from the Spring team at Pivotal, marries Spring's flexibility with conventional, common sense defaults to make application development not just fly, but pleasant! Spring Boot gives you a huge leg up over normal starter projects, now let's give you another boost by adding JRebel. With JRebel, the average Java developer saves over 1 work-month per year by using JRebel to skip rebuild, restart, and redeploys of their application. JRebel 6 launches on November 4, 2014 and includes complete Spring Boot integration. Join Spring's Josh Long and ZeroTurnaround's Adam Koblentz and learn how to combine Boot with JRebel and get more done, in less time with less configuration.

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

Learn more about JRebel: http://zeroturnaround.com/software/jrebel/display/

14 day free JRebel trial download: https://zeroturnaround.com/software/jrebel/trial/

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In this blog, I want to look at - and demonstrate - some of the many new features in Spring Boot 1.2 that make the lives of those coming from, or otherwise building on, Java EE easier.

It's worth mentioning that a lot of this support has been possible with Spring before, of course, but now with Spring Boot 1.2, it's just so darned easy!

First, here's an example program with notes after.

package demo;

import org.glassfish.jersey.jackson.JacksonFeature;
import org.glassfish.jersey.server.ResourceConfig;
import org.springframework.boot.SpringApplication;
import org.springframework.boot…

I am pleased to announce that the second release candidate for Spring Boot 1.2.0 is available now in the Spring milestone repository. This is mainly a bug fix release, although we did manage to sneak in a fantastic community contribution which adds support for Undertow as an embedded Servlet container.

For a complete list of changes, and for upgrade instructions, see the Spring Boot 1.2 Release Notes on the WIKI. The reference documentation has also been updated to cover new features.

As usual, please report any problems using the project Issue tracker.

On behalf of the Spring Roo team, I am pleased to announce the release of Spring Roo 1.3.0, the first version released by DISID Corporation as project lead.

Spring Roo is a rapid application development tool for Java, allowing you to create full web enterprise applications in just minutes.

This is the first time that Spring Roo jar files have been published to Maven Central! As always, the release is available in the Spring IO repository.

The 1.3.0 release includes bug fixes and enhancements as well as several new features:

• Now Roo has complete support for JDK 8:
  • run Spring Roo with JDK 8

  • run generated applications with JDK 8
• Update Felix to 4.4.1

For full details on the changes made in the release, please refer to the Release Notes in Jira

For more project specific information please see the Project Page | GitHub

Please try out the updates and provide feedback.

As always, you’ll also find Roo on Twitter - either follow @SpringRoo or just include #SpringRoo in your tweets. The next version 2.0 will be amazing, the best is coming up. Stay tuned!

Recently, a friend of mine tweeted out a challenge:

"Name a framework in which you can create a new app expose a REST service with a database and deploy it to the cloud in five minutes. #grails"

The moment I spotted that tweet, I responded, "Spring Boot + Spring Data REST"! I realized he was kindly pointing out how easy it is to build RESTful services with Grails (a great framework). But I couldn't resist showing the ease and power of Spring Data REST.

To prove my point, I couldn't resisting crafting a screencast. In the linked screencast, I show how über easy Spring has made it to pick the parts for your app from http://start.spring.io, define your domain, and then…

On behalf of the Spring XD team, I am very pleased to announce the first milestone release of Spring XD 1.1 and the 1.0.2 maintenance release.

Download Links:

• 1.0.2.RELEASE: zip, 1.1.0.M1 RELEASE: zip

In addition to bug fixes, Spring XD 1.0.2 now supports Apache Hadoop 2.5.1. Pivotal PHD 2.1 and Cloudera CDH 5.1.3.

The 1.1 M1 release includes bug fixes and enhancements as well as several new features:

• Run a Spark Application as a batch job
• Python based processors and sinks
• Kafka source and sink
• HDFS sink supports writing to a Kerberized Hadoop Cluster
• LDAP Authentication
• Modules can be created using Java @Configuration classes as an alternative to XML
• Redis sink and JDBC Source
• Hadoop distribution updates. Support for Apache Hadoop 2,4.1/2.5.1 (default), Pivotal PHD 2.0/2.1, Cloudera CDH 5.2, and Hortonworks HDP 2.1. Apache Hadoop 2.2 support was removed
• Configurable location of Spring XD’s top level node in Zookeeper
…

I'm pleased to announce the release of Spring Session 1.0.0.RC1.

For full details on the changes made in the release, please refer to the changelog. The highlights of this release include:

• WebSocket support. See the websocket sample for details.
• Support for multiple simultaneous sessions in a single browser. Refer to the users sample for an example.
• Simplified configuration with @EnableRedisHttpSession and AbstractHttpSessionApplicationInitializer
• Support for background task to cleanup expired Redis sessions. See spring-session/gh-59
• Added spring-session-data-redis pom to make declaring dependencies more concise.
• Hazelcast Sample
…