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…

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

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

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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Developing, deploying, and operating cloud applications should be as easy as (if not easier than) local applications. That is and should be a governing principle behind any cloud platform, library, or tool. Spring Cloud--an open-source library--makes it easy to develop JVM applications for the cloud. With it, applications can connect to services and discover information about the cloud environment easily in multiple clouds such as Cloud Foundry and Heroku. Further, you can extend it to other cloud platforms and new services.

In this blog (first in a series), I will introduce Spring Cloud and show its usage from the application developer point of view. We will develop a simple application and deploy to Cloud Foundry and Heroku…

The Spring XD team is pleased to announce that Spring XD Milestone 7 is now available for download.

Highlights of this release

• Transport Data Partitioning: By default, messages are delivered to multiple instances of a stream module in a round-robin manner. However, if a module performs operations such that it can not consume random messages from the stream, then you can partition the stream based on its content so that similar messages are always delivered to the same module instance. For example, if a processing module is performing stateful operations on a per-customer basis, the stream…

Recorded at SpringOne2GX 2013 in Santa Clara, CA

Speaker: Jeffery Sologov, ADP

Relying on network reliability and topology are just a few mistakes most engineers make. Common fallacies of distributed computing are one of the most important factors that engineers need to keep in mind when building enterprise software. We will cover each fallacy while showing mistakes most engineers make. We will then cover what coupling truly means and how to tell whether your current project is heading the wrong way. Finally, we will apply aspects of object orientation that held up to this day and learn how to apply them to the new age architectures. Don't learn from your mistakes, learn from others and come away with techniques that you can apply to your current project right away. This is the session that I wish I attended when I was a young lad.

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

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Recorded at SpringOne2GX 2013 in Santa Clara, CA

Speaker: Gil Tene, Azul

Time is Money. Understanding application responsiveness and latency is critical not only for delivering good application behavior. It is critical for maintaining profitability and containing risk. But good characterization of bad data is useless. When measurements of response time present false or misleading latency information, even the best analysis can lead to wrong operational decisions and poor application experience. In this presentation, Gil Tene (CTO, Azul Systems) discusses some common pitfalls encountered in measuring and characterizing latency. Gil demonstrates and discusses some false assumptions and measurement techniques that lead to dramatically incorrect reporting results, and covers simple ways to sanity check and correct these situations. He discusses the fallacy of using standard deviation measurements, the strongly multi-modal nature of latency, common discontinuities found in most computing platforms, and how back pressure and coordinated data omission issues can literally skew measurement results by orders of magnitude. Gil introduces and demonstrates how simple and recently open sourced tools can be used to improve and gain higher confidence in both latency measurement and reporting.

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

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