If you are building microservices with Spring you will be interested to see that Spring Cloud 1.0.0.M2 hit the streets yesterday and today, and can now be found in the Spring repository. Visit the individual project pages links in the main umbrella page or look at their github repositories for detailed instructions about how to get started using the individual components. There is also a Reference Guide covering the core modules.

Since Spring Cloud is an umbrella project we have a "release train" of related updates to all the sub-projects (like with Spring Data). The 1.0.0.M2 release has updates to spring Cloud Config, Spring Cloud Netflix, Spring Cloud Bus, Spring Cloud Security and Spring Cloud CLI…

Sometimes, teh Twitterz is an amazing place. Just last week I spent some time helping clarify the behavior of Spring's @Qualifier annotation, which is both older than JSR 330 and offers a richer superset of JSR 330's @Qualifier annotation. These misguided few seemed to be under the impression that Spring's annotation didn't offer the same degree of type-safety as the JSR 330 annotation. I don't know if it's because they simply hadn't read up on the support (which is fairly new, since it's only been around since 2007), or if it's because they work for companies that make their money if you…

Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This week I'm on the road talking to enthusiastic Spring developers in Casablanca, Morocco at the JMaghreb conference and then it's off to London (again!) for the amazing Spring eXchange. If you're at either, be sure to say hi!

• Artem Bilan, Spring Integration ninja and a personal hero of mine, has just announced the Spring Integration RC1 release. I don't know if you've seen the Java configuration DSL, but it makes writing complex integration flows a breeze! It takes advantage of Java 8's lamba support. Check it out! Remember, microservices aren't exclusively REST centric. If you're trying to build a microservice and expose it over any other mechanism, I'd start with Spring Integration.
• Spring ninja Thomas Risberg just announced Spring for Hadoop 2.0.3…

Speaker: Josh Long, Pivotal and Peter Lehto, Vaadin

It's been a long day, but you've done it: you've got a Spring Boot powered backend and now you need to build the UI that'll power the workforce and deliver next week. Vaadin, a UI framework that marries the ease of use of server-side Java and the rich, dynamic nature of client-side JavaScript, integrates well with Spring Boot and offers UI polish that would be hard to secure any other way. Join Spring developer advocate Josh Long and Vaadin evangelists for a look at how Vaadin and Spring Boot can get you to production quicker, and easier.

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

Learn more about Vaadin http://www.vaadin.com

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We are pleased to announce that Spring for Apache Hadoop 2.0.3 has just been released and is now available from Maven Central and the Spring Repository. This release includes some bug fixes and updates some dependency versions. The dependencies are updated to match the next 1.0.3 release of the Spring IO platform. More details can be found in the changelog or in the JIRA release notes.

In this release, we are adding support for Apache Hadoop 2.5.1 (hadoop25) and Pivotal HD 2.1 (phd21).

Here is a complete list of the latest version designation to use for the various distro "flavors" published. The Apache Hadoop releases are available in Maven Central and all other releases are available in the Spring Repository…

On behalf of the Spring Data team I am pleased to announce the availability of the first service release of the Evans release train. The team around the participating modules completed 41 issues including serveral bug fixes. We want to thank everyone for taking the time to report, volunteer fixing and testing those issues - this is invaluable feedback we could not do without!

The release includes the following 11 modules:

• Spring Data Commons 1.9.1 - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data JPA 1.7.1 - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data MongoDB 1.6.1 - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data Neo4j 3.2.1 - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data Solr 1.3.1 - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data Couchbase 1.2.1 - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data Cassandra 1.1.1 - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data Elasticsearch 1.1.1 - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - …

Dear Spring community,

We are pleased to announce that soon after the Spring Integration 4.1 Release Candidate the Spring Integration Java DSL 1.0 Release Candidate is now available. Please use the Milestone Repository with Maven or Gradle, or download a distribution archive, to give it a spin.

See the project home page for more information.

The release includes many new features and improvements, as well as a number of bug fixes. The GA release is planned for the middle of November.

Here is a summary of major changes since the last milestone:

Refactoring and Breaking Changes

While still supporting earlier Java versions, the Spring Integration Java DSL is primarily positioned for Java 8 and its Lambda support. We have removed several functional interfaces in favor of similar interfaces from Java 8: Consumer<T>, Function<T, R> etc. Of course, to support backward…

Conquering Content-enabled Web and Mobile Applications with Spring and Groovy

Speaker: Russ Danner - Crafter Software

Rich media and digital content are an integral part of nearly all Web and mobile applications today, but the growing number of platforms, changing business demands and time to market are a major concern. Join this session to learn modern practices for building content-enabled Web and mobile apps. We will uncover common challenges faced by content and application teams, explain how these problems are solved by simple, powerful tools and the right architecture. We'll also demonstrate how leading organizations such as AT&T, Marriott, and Harvard Business Publishing have succeeded by leveraging Spring Framework, Groovy and other leading Java development technologies along with content management frameworks to build and manage content rich applications.

Learn more about Crafter Software http://www.craftersoftware.com

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Hello from New York City! Tonight I'll be addressing the Cloud Foundry User Group on how to build Spring Boot and Spring Cloud-based microservices that run on Cloud Foundry - I hope you'll join us! And if you're in Boston, then come hang out when I give the same talk there on Thursday!

• Spring Social lead and all around Spring ninja Craig Walls announced the Spring Sync project and then wrote up a nice introduction to it, which - this is taken from the post because it's perfectly stated there - addresses efficient communication between client applications and Spring backends by employing patch-based exchanges. So, basically, the one piece of the pie (after basic REST, HATEOAS and hypermedia, OAuth and security in general, all of which Spring supports capably and in a first-class way) missing in client/server communication (like REST) is now here! If you read one…