Josh Long

Josh Long

Josh (@starbuxman) is the Spring Developer Advocate at Pivotal and a Java Champion. He's host of "A Bootiful Podcast" (https://soundcloud.com/a-bootiful-podcast), host of the "Spring Tips Videos" (http://bit.ly/spring-tips-playlist), co-author of 6+ books (http://joshlong.com/books.html), and instructor on 8+ Livelessons Training Videos (http://joshlong.com/livelessons.html)

Recent Blog posts by Josh Long

This Week in Spring - April 25th, 2017

Engineering | April 25, 2017 | ...
Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This week I'm in beautiful Bangalore, India, at the 10th edition of the great, Great Indian Developer Summit! Then, I'm off to Perth, Australia, for YOW! West. If you're around, say hi!. We've got a lot to cover, so let's get to it! Spring REST Docs lead Andy Wilkinson just announced Spring REST Docs 1.2.0! This new release includes smarter Asciidoctor integration, support for request-and-response snippets, and better support for large and complex payloads. At the same time, Andy also released Spring REST Docs 1.1.3, a maintenance release…

This Week in Spring - April 18th, 2017

Engineering | April 18, 2017 | ...
Hi Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This week I'm in Atlanta, GA, at DevOps Days Atlanta, and Boston for the Agile Tech Alliance conference. If you're around for either I'd love to see you - say hi! Don't miss me, Spring Team members, and community speakers at the upcoming Spring Days Chicago, New York and Atlanta events! As usual, we've got a lot to cover so let's get to it! The WebFlux functional reactive support in Spring Framework 5.0 is really catching on! I particularly enjoyed this post called Spring: Your Next Microframework Baeldung has a great post…

Spring Tips: Season 2 Recap

Engineering | April 12, 2017 | ...
Hi Spring fans! We've now finished two seasons - 11 episodes and a recap post each - of Spring Tips. I'm going to take a little while to dream up some more content and, before you know it, we'll be back at it again! I'm always interested in hearing proposed topics so if you have some, please, by all means, shout it out loud to me on Twitter (@starbuxman) or by email ([email protected]). The motivations for me in doing these Spring Tips are: revisit traditional topics in light of Spring Boot and highlight parts of the amazing Spring ecosystem that, for one reason or another, don't get enough…

This Week in Spring - April 11th, 2017

Engineering | April 11, 2017 | ...
Welcome to another installation of This Week in Spring! Spring Integration ninja Artem Bilan just announced Spring Integration 5.0.M3. The new release includes an integration test framework, speed improvements, support for the Spring 5 reactive WebClient, retroactive restoration of file trees when using the (S)FTP and AWS S3 inbound adapters, a smarter SOAP web-services gateway, and much more. Spring Integration lead Gary Russell just announced Spring for Apache Kafka 1.2.0 and 1.1.4 Andy Wilkinson just debuted a look at the new Gradle Spring Boot 2.0 plugin in last week's Spring Tips I…

This Week in Spring - April 4th, 2017

Engineering | April 04, 2017 | ...
Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This week I'm in London, UK; Paris, France (for the epic Devoxx France event where I'll be speaking with my buddy Matt Raible) and Stuttgart, Germany, where I'll be speaking at conferences and to customers! If you're around, don't hesitate to say "hi"! the new release of Spring Tool Suite is jam-packed with new features supporting Spring Boot and Cloud Foundry. Check the New and Noteworthy and get it while it's hot! (I've just gotten a new laptop, so I'm doing that right now, too!) last week in the latest installment of Spring Tips I…

This Week in Spring - March 28th, 2017

Engineering | March 28, 2017 | ...
Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This week I'm in Omaha, Nebraska, speaking to customers and tonight I'll be presenting at an event co-sponsored by the Omaha, JUG and the local Omaha, Spring Users Group, talking about reactive Spring. Don't be shy, come out and say hi! Sébastien Deleuze just introduced the 1.0.0.M1 relese of extensions supporting using Project Reactor in the Kotlin language Spring REST Docs lead Andy Wilkinson just announced Spring REST Docs 1.2.0.RC1. Try it out now! For a good example of Spring REST Docs, scroll down and you'll see a very nice one from…

This Week in Spring - March 21st, 2017

Engineering | March 22, 2017 | ...
Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This week I'm visiting with customers and am presenting at the first Devoxx US event in San Jose, California. If you're around, don't hesitate to stop by and say hi at the Pivotal booth on the expo hall. As usual, we've got a lot to cover so let's get to it! Spring Cloud Dalston RC1 is now available! Get the bits while they're hot! Spring Cloud Task contributor Glenn Renfro just announced Spring Cloud Task 1.2.0.M2 Marius Bogoevici just announced Spring Cloud Stream Chelsea RC1 Spring Cloud Vault lead Mark Paluch just announced the 1.…

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