Josh Long

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment, the first of a series, Josh Long looks at the venerable @Controller annotation and its use supporting Model 2 MVC-style web applications.

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! How are you?

I’m doing well, as always. I literally just wrapped up presenting a fun session at the Russian Joker conference all about Spring and GraphQL. I got a ton of great questions from an enthusiastic audience. Thanks so much for joining me, everyone. I’ve got to get to other meetings, though, so let’s get this wonderful week in Spring out of the way!

• Spring Tips: refreshable configuration with Spring Cloud Bus, and the Spring Cloud Config Monitor
• In last week’s A Bootiful Podcast, I talked to RabbitMQ and Weaveworks founder Alexis Richardson about RabbitMQ, Pivotal, Spring, Kubernetes, and FluxCD
• A great article that @Javinpaul linked me to: What is @PropertySource in Spring Framework?
• fellow Java Champion Andres Almiray has just released a very cool sample Spring Boot application demonstrating some features of the JReleaser project, which aims to make deploying artifacts as easy as possible.
• Want to learn Spring Boot? Check out BNYMellon/spring-kata, which are code katas for learning Spring and Spring Boot.
• Cloud Native Buildpacks / Paketo.io in GitLab CI without Docker & pack CLI
• Did you know that the official client for writing Discord clients in Java is built on project Reactor? Me either! How cool! Discord4J/Discord4J: Discord4J is a fast, powerful, unopinionated, reactive library to enable quick and easy development of Discord bots for Java, Kotlin, and other JVM languages using the official Discord Bot API.
• Multiple ways to configure Spring
• New Features For Spring Cloud Kubernetes In Spring Cloud 2021.0.0-M3
• Professional GUI and IDE for Azure Cosmos DB: Sign up for the free plan or 30 days trial - Alpaqa Studio for Cosmos DB
• Spot every Spring Boot application issue on the spot using AppDynamics!
• Spring Boot 2.4.12 is now available
• Spring Boot 2.5.6 is now available
• Spring Boot 2.6.0-RC1 is available now
• Spring Cloud OpenFeign versions 2.2.10.RELEASE, 3.0.5 and 3.1.0-M4 are now available
• Spring Cloud Sleuth OTel Reference Documentation
• Spring Cloud Square 0.4.0-M2 is available.
• Spring Cloud Square 0.4.0-M3 is available.
• Spring Framework 5.3.12 available now
• Spring GraphQL : GraphQL Done Right
• Using Spring with Apache Kafka - Full Introduction
• bkaminnski/links-spring: Links project implemented in Spring Boot. Demonstrates a composite UI pattern implemented in react.
• VSCode Java is 1.0! Hurray! vscode-java/CHANGELOG.md at master · redhat-developer/vscode-java
• kuberhealthy/kuberhealthy: A Kubernetes operator for running synthetic checks as pods. Works great with Prometheus!

Today, we are excited to announce the integration of AppDynamics in the Azure Spring Cloud for full stack observability.

Over the past 20 months, we worked with many enterprise customers to learn about the scenarios they face. Many of these customers have thousands of Spring Boot applications running in on-premises data centers. As they migrate these applications to the cloud, they need to instrument them for application performance monitoring (APM) using solutions their developers are familiar with and have been using for years. In addition, they must ensure continuity for desktop and mobile applications that are already pre-instrumented for end-to-end monitoring using agents like AppDynamics, which automatically discovers and maps all applications, microservices, and infrastructure as well as any dependencies in dynamic hybrid, multi-cloud environments. With the integration of AppDynamics in Azure Spring Cloud, you can continue your journey and easily instrument your Spring Boot applications with AppDynamics.

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment, Josh Long (@starbuxman) talk to RabbitMQ and Weaveworks founder Alexis Richardson (@monadic) about RabbitMQ, Pivotal, Spring, Kubernetes, and FluxCD. NB: this interview was done a year ago, and I was just playing with FluxCD these last few weeks and I figured it was finally time to release this episode! Thanks so much Alexis for sharing and teaching us so much!

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment, we’ll look at fully refreshable configuration using the Spring Cloud Config Server, Spring Cloud Bus, and Spring Cloud Config Monitor.

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! How’re you doing? Good? Keepin’ busy? Good. I’m doing alright, too.

• Last week, I did a sort of smörgåsbord episode of Tanzu Code on twitch.tv/vmwaretanzu. It was super fun! I stream on VMWare Tanzu as well as on my own Twitch channel, twitch.tv/JavaJoshLong about all things Spring, Java, and more.
• In last week’s super short-and-to-the-point installment of Spring Tips, I looked at the Spring Plugin project
• I also put out This Month in Spring - a newsletter digest version of this very weekly roundup that comes out every… month. Naturally.
• Did you see this? Twitter is now using graphql-java, the very same project that underpins the Spring GraphQL project, for their APIs and they’re reporting incredible performance gains! twitter + graphql-java · Discussion #2591 · graphql-java/graphql-java
• In last week’s A Bootiful Podcast, I talked to .NET legend Layla Porter on Azure Spring Cloud, Steeltoe.NET, and more
• Announcing: Knative 1.0
• Harden Performance of REST calls using Spring WebFlux
• How to upload/download file using Spring MVC and Spring Boot ? Example Tutorial
• Matt Raible and I did a talk for the SF JUG about Spring Native and GraalVM with Spring Boot and JHipster. It was a ton of fun and I hope you’ll enjoy it.
• Multiple Hierarchical Contexts in Spring Boot - DEV Community
• Did you get your tickets for the Reactive Summit ? There are going to be some amazing talks this year!
• Release 1.16.1 · testcontainers/testcontainers-java
• Release Europium-SR12 (2020.0.12) · reactor/reactor
• Spring Data 2021.0.6 and 2020.0.14 released
• Spring Data 2021.1 enters RC phase
• Spring Data JDBC - How do I implement caching?
• Spring Framework 5.3.11 and 5.2.18 available now
• The State of Java 2021

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment Josh Long (@starbuxman) talks to teammate, .NET ecosystem legend and awesome human being Layla (@LaylaCodesIt).

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment Josh Long (@starbuxman) looks at the little-known, often-used Spring Plugin project, which supports the strategy pattern

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to yet another installment of This Week in Spring where we recap - with apologies to The Times - all the news that’s fit to reprint in the Spring and Spring-adjacent ecosystems. First: it’s almost Halloween! Can you believe it?? This year has absolutely flown by! I need to dust off my PHP costume for Halloween. Maybe I’ll even start using this particularly ghastly VS Code theme on the day…

Anyway, it’s been a busy week for me already and we’re only at the very beginning of Tuesday! I’ve been attending Kubecon (virtually), I spoke at the online I Code Java event at midnight and then this morning at 8am I was on the SnykLive discussion on the State of Java in 2021. Fun!

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment, Josh Long (@starbuxman) talks to OpenWMS founder Heiko Scherrer (@openwms) about OpenWMS, Spring, Spring Boot, Spring Data, workflow with Activiti and more.