SpringOne 2GX 2012 Replays: Ten Great Reasons to Virtualize Java Applications, What's New in CloudFoundry
Ten Great Reasons to Virtualize Your Java Apps
Customer interest in virtualizing Java workloads has been growing exponentially year on year. For the last few years, the focus has been largely around looking for best practice guidance to mitigate concerns around virtualizing Java workloads, particularly in the area of performance. Since joining VMware, SpringSource has been investing in providing first class support for the Java runtime on vSphere with products such as EM4J. Combined with the industry-leading capabilities of the vSphere platform and the growing product portfolio around the Java ecosystem, there are many great reasons to virtualize Java.
So rather than continuing to ask the question, is it OK to virtualize Java, this session boldly aims to suggest that you would be crazy not to!
About Benjamin Corrie
Ben Corrie has been working on Java since 1998, where he began at IBM testing JDK 1.1.4. He progressed to working on the internals of IBM's Java Virtual Machine where he lead a project to develop industry-leading memory management technology for the JVM. He joined SpringSource as a consultant in 2008 and moved to California a year later to lead an effort to improve Java performance on vSphere. As the tech lead on the recently announced EM4J project, he is successfully helping to make vSphere the best place to run Java.
More About Benjamin »What's New in Cloud Foundry
Come to this session to get an in-depth view of the latest and greatest in Cloud Foundry. It's easier than ever before to build and deploy your distributed polyglot applications. You will see some exciting new options, including new Java and Node runtimes and support for background workers and container-less web apps. These features allow you to create distributed apps comprised of many smaller, focused apps each written in the framework that fits its purpose best. We will also explore the latest in tooling, including new features in the STS plugin and the brand new "next gen" VMC client. We will peek under the hood to see what's new in the Cloud Foundry architecture. From Cloud Foundry beginner to expert, this session has something for everyone.
About Jennifer Hickey
Jennifer Hickey is a Sr. Software Engineer with SpringSource/VMware, with over a decade of experience in software engineering. Jennifer is a member of the Cloud Foundry team, specializing in developer experience and support of frameworks such as Spring, Grails, Rails, and Sinatra. She is passionate about increasing developer productivity in the cloud. Jennifer has led or contributed to a number of SpringSource projects, including Hyperic and tc Server. She has been involved in converting multiple large EJB/legacy codebases to Spring. Prior to joining SpringSource, Jennifer was a principal architect of a large-scale network management system.
More About Jennifer »About Ramnivas Laddad
Ramnivas Laddad is a SpringSource Principal Engineer. He has over a decade of experience in applying his enterprise Java and aspect-oriented programming (AOP) expertise to middleware, design automation, networking, web application, user interface, and security projects.
Ramnivas Laddad is a well-known expert in enterprise Java, especially in the area of AOP and Spring. He is the author of AspectJ in Action, the best-selling book on AOP and AspectJ that has been lauded by industry experts for its presentation of practical and innovative AOP applications to solve real-world problems. Ramnivas, a Spring framework committer, is also an active presenter at leading industry events such as JavaOne, JavaPolis, No Fluff Just Stuff, SpringOne, Software Development, and has been an active member of both the AspectJ and Spring communities from their beginnings.
More About Ramnivas »This Week in Spring - Feb 12th, 2013
Welcome back to another installment of This Week in Spring ! As usual, we've got a lot to cover, so let's get to it!
- Dave Syer is taking his SpringOne2GX talk to an online audience on Feb 14th, 2013 Webinar - When and Why Would I Use OAuth2?
- Dream team Sam Brannen (Swiftmind) & Rossen Stoyanchev (SpringSource) join forces on Feb 21st, 2013 for a Webinar: Testing Web Applications with Spring 3.2
- New SpringOne2GX 2012 talks released to YouTube in HD! Ten Great Reasons to Virtualize Your Java Apps, and What's New in CloudFoundry.
- Our pal Boris Lam is back, this time with two posts on how to use Spring Data MongoDB and JSF together.
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The PluralSight blog has a video introduction to Spring MVC interceptors. This video is an excerpt from a full-fledged video course.
</LI> <LI> Cool demonstration: <A href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LTxd0PGDaMI&list=UU7yfnfvEUlXUIfm8rGLwZdA&index=1">Spring Insight plugins for Spring Integration and RabbitMQ</a>. - The syntx blog has a nice post on how to add HTTP Basic authentication using Spring Security to Spring MVC-secured resources.
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Krishna's Blog has a nice post introducing
unit-testing the Spring Security layer with the
InMemoryDaoImpl.
<LI> You know, I was looking for something like this just the other day! <EM>Mark's Blog </EM> has a nice post on the <A href="http://markchensblog.blogspot.com/2013/02/how-spring-mvc-works.html"> workflow of the various objects in servicing an incoming HTTP request in Spring MVC</a>. Is this stuff you could easily figure out by sticking a breakpoint in a controller and just looking at the call stack…This Week in Spring - Feb 5th, 2013
Welcome back to another installment of This Week in Spring --
There's some great video content is available online this week, so be sure to check the content out. Also, you asked and we are delivering - we now maintain an single index page for all SpringOne2GX recordings along with the link to the InfoQ page for their recordings of the event. On with the roundup!
- Rossen Stoyanchev has announced the 2.4M1 and 2.3.2 releases of Spring Web Flow.
- Dream team Sam Brannen (Swiftmind) & Rossen Stoyanchev (SpringSource) join forces on Feb 21st, 2013 for a Webinar: Testing Web Applications with Spring 3.2
- Dave Syer is taking his SpringOne2GX talk to an online audience on Feb 14th, 2013 When and Why Would I Use OAuth2?
- Jeremy Grelle's talk from SpringOne2GX 2012 introducing practical patterns for asynchronous, push-enabled applications is now available online.
- Craig Walls' presentation from SpringOne2GX 2012 Introducing Spring Social is now available on YouTube in HD.
- Craig Walls' Javascript - focused talk from SpringOne2GX 2012 Client Side UI Smackdown, is now available on YouTube in HD.
- Over on InfoQ China (where the content is in Chinese...), blogger Ding Xuefeng has done a marvelous job shining a light on some of the various Spring sub-projects, including Spring Data, Spring Batch, Spring Integration. Definitely worth a read!
- The slides from Spring framework committer Sam Brannen's talk on Spring Framework 3.2 are available, and make for a fascinating read.
- This blog explains how to lookup and use a JavaMail
Sessionas configured in Tomcat's JNDI from a Spring application. - The softtech blog has a code-heavy post introducing how to create a one-to-many relationship using Spring Data JPA.
<LI>The <EM>Guident</EM> blog has a nice <a href="http://blog.guident.com/2013/01/spring-into-apache-hadoop/">post introducing Spring Data Hadoop's support for HBase.</a> </LI>
<LI> The <EM>Dinesh on Java</EM> blog has a nice post on <A href="http://www.dineshonjava.com/2013/01/spring-data…SpringOne 2GX 2012 Replays: Client Side UI Smackdown, Making Connections with Spring Social
Making Connections with Spring Social
The modern web is rich with APIs that can be consumed by other applications, enabling an integrated experience for the users who hold accounts on the websites that front those APIs. Many of these APIs are secured with OAuth, an authorization specification for securing REST APIs. Spring Social is an extension to the Spring Framework that enables Spring applications to establish connections with those APIs on behalf of their users with little or no need to muck about in the intricacies of OAuth.
In this session, we'll explore how Spring Social brings API connectivity to Spring applications. We'll also uncover the newest features of Spring Social that make it easier than ever to link your application's users to the identities they maintain on various sites across the web.
About Craig Walls
Craig Walls has been professionally developing software for almost 18 years (and longer than that for the pure geekiness of it). He is a senior engineer with SpringSource as the Spring Social project lead and is the author of Spring in Action and XDoclet in Action (both published by Manning) and Modular Java (published by Pragmatic Bookshelf). He's a zealous promoter of the Spring Framework, speaking frequently at local user groups and conferences and writing about Spring and OSGi on his blog. When he's not slinging code, Craig spends as much time as he can with his wife, two daughters, 4 birds and 3 dogs.
More About Craig »Client-Side UI Smackdown
In the modern web, user interfaces are expected to be rich, highly responsive, and available anytime, anywhere, and on any device. Round-trip server-side HTML rendering doesn't fit the bill any longer and numerous JavaScript frameworks have stepped forward to simplify development of client-side user-interfaces. With so many great options available, we now face a paradox of choice and it can be difficult to decide which UI framework best suits our needs.
In this session we'll explore a handful of the most popular client-side UI frameworks, including Backbone, Knockout, Sammy, and Spine (and others) weighing their strengths and weaknesses and helping decide which framework is most suitable for a given set of UI goals.
About Craig Walls
Craig Walls has been professionally developing software for almost 18 years (and longer than that for the pure geekiness of it). He is a senior engineer with SpringSource as the Spring Social project lead and is the author of Spring in Action and XDoclet in Action (both published by Manning) and Modular Java (published by Pragmatic Bookshelf). He's a zealous promoter of the Spring Framework, speaking frequently at local user groups and conferences and writing about Spring and OSGi on his blog. When he's not slinging code, Craig spends as much time as he can with his wife, two daughters, 4 birds and 3 dogs.
More About Craig »Spring Web Flow 2.4 M1 and 2.3.2 Released
A minor maintenance release of Spring Web Flow 2.3.2 is now available via Maven and for download. See the Changelog for the list of changes.
A first milestone of Spring Web Flow 2.4 is also available through the SpringSource milestone repository. See the Changelog for the full list of changes.
Spring Web Flow samples have been separated from the distribution and into a separate Github project. In addition the booking-mvc sample has been updated to use Thymeleaf thanks to Thymeleaf's project lead Daniel Fernández.
Spring Tool Suite and Groovy/Grails Tool Suite 3.2.0.M2 released
Dear Spring Community,
I am happy to announce the second milestone release 3.2.0.M2 of the Spring Tool Suite (STS) and the Groovy/Grails Tool Suite (GGTS).
Highlights from this milestone build include:
- a lot of overall performance improvements, especially for the Spring tooling
- improvements to Live Beans Graph feature
- improved Spring Data code completion and validation
- Grails 2.2 included in the GGTS distribution and available on the dashboard
- Groovy 2.0.6 compiler now included in the GGTS distribution.
Both tool suites ship on top of the latest Eclipse Juno SR2 maintenance builds (not yet the final Eclipse Juno SR2 release). We still recommend to use the Eclipse-3.8-based versions of STS and GGTS for optimal performance.
The 3.2.0 release is scheduled for early March 2013 - shortly after the Eclipse Juno SR2 release.
To download the distributions, please go visit:
- Spring Tool Suite: http://www.springsource.org/sts
- Groovy/Grails Tool Suite: http://grails.org/products/ggts
Enjoy!
Spring Hateoas 0.4 released
SpringSource would like to announce the release of Spring Hateoas 0.4!
The Spring HATEOAS project provides some APIs to ease creating REST representations that follow the HATEOAS principle when working with Spring and especially Spring MVC. HATEOAS, an abbreviation for Hypermedia as the Engine of Application State, is a constraint of the REST application architecture that distinguishes it from most other network application architectures. The core problem it tries to address is link creation and representation assembly.
In this release, the most important new features are:
- extended LinkBuilder API to point to Controller *methods* as well
- Jackson 2 support
- HAL support
- EntityLinks API to create links pointing to controllers managing a particular entity type
- introduced LinkDiscoverer API to find links in representations by rel (incl. JSONPath based implementation)
You can read about all of the new features and bug fixes in the change log. Enjoy!
Download | Documentation | Javadoc API (coming soon) | Change Log | Issues/Bugs |
This Week in Spring - January 29th, 2013
Welcome back to another installation of This Week in Spring ! I've been visiting developers and companies in India, China, and Japan. It's been an exciting time to see what these emerging and powerful countries are doing with open source and with Spring, in particular! Of course, stay tuned to the SpringSource blog in the coming weeks some very cool examples and details!
In the meantime, as usual, we've got quite a bit of news to cover this week, including more news on the Spring 4 roadmap announcement from last week. If you want to get the absolute latest, check out the Spring 3.2 GA webinar replay on YouTube, where Spring Framework 4.0 is covered a bit toward the end. Let's get to it!
- Charles Humble at InfoQ's done a nice interview with Juergen Hoeller and write up of the Spring 4 announcement .
- The Spring Integration 2.2.1 and 2.1.5 maintenance releases are now generally available.
- Two new SpringOne 2GX 2012 Replays have been released to our YouTube Channel: Tooling for the Javascript Era, An Introduction to Broadleaf Commerce
- We've launched a page to centralize all the SpringOne2GX 2012 recordings, check it out!
- Chris Beams, Gunnar Hillert, and Rossen Stoyanchev were recorded in well-received presentation Introducing WebSockets at SpringOne2GX 2012, now online on InfoQ!
- Blogger Ilias Tsagklis from the Java Code Geeks blog also has a nice post on the Spring 4.0 roadmap announcement.
- Chris Beams has announced that Spring 3.1.4 has been released!
- Marty Pitt has created a very nice extension - he's calling it BakeHouse- for Spring web applications that
preprocesses web artifacts for consumption in your web application at application startup. There are various kinds of pre processing possible:
- Less for your CSS
- Concatenate and minify your Javascript
- Maybe even use some Typescript or CoffeeScript, which needs to be compiled
@Configurationclasses! Really slick and productive! - The Japanese portal Public Key has a nice writeup of the announced roadmap for Spring 4.0
- The Just Enough Architecture blog has a nice post on using ActiveMQ, Spring Integration and MongoDB together - cool! I might've used Spring Batch's flat file reading support instead of a custom one out of the box, though, overall, this is an awesome post!
- Blogger madhav has a nice look at the code to support table and class inheritance using Spring Data JPA. That said, it's really hard to read as the code is not indented at all!
- Noushin Bashir has put together a nice post on how to configure ActiveMQ with SSL and then connect to it from Spring.
<LI>Spring HATEOAS 0.4 was <a href="http://www.springsource.org/node/3796">released</a>, adding Jackson and HAL support.</LI>
<LI> Allard Buijze over at Trifork has announced <a href= "http://blog.trifork.nl/2013/01/22/axon-framework-2-0-released/"> version 2.0 of…Spring Integration 2.2.1 and 2.1.5 Released
We are pleased to announce that Spring Integration 2.2.1.RELEASE is now available. A list of changes can be found here.
In addition, the 2.1.5.RELEASE is now available, with the list of changes here. However, 2.1.x users are encouraged to move to the 2.2.1 release - the 2.2. GA announcement is here.
The artifacts are available in the SpringSource Repository as well as Maven Central, or you can download the zip here.
Groovy 2.1 released
The Groovy team is pleased to announce the release of Groovy 2.1.0.
With over 1.7 million downloads in 2012, a strong ecosystem of successful projects like Grails, Gradle, Spock or Griffon built on Groovy, the Groovy programming language continues its development and adoption, refines existing features and evolves new ones.
In this new release, Groovy 2.1:
- offers full support for the JDK 7 “invoke dynamic” bytecode instruction and API,
- goes beyond conventional static type checking capabilities with a special annotation to assist with documentation and type safety of Domain-Specific Languages and adds static type checker extensions,
- provides additional compilation customization options,
- features a meta-annotation facility for combining annotations elegantly,
- and provides various other enhancements and minor improvements.
Please read all the details about the new features and improvements in the Groovy 2.1 release notes document.
You can download Groovy 2.1.0 from the Download area, and have a look at the JIRA tickets we worked on.
The Groovy team is looking…
