Welcome to another installation of This Week in Spring! This week I'm in Krakow, Poland, for JDD and then it's off to St. Petersburg, Russia for the Joker conference!

We've got a lot to cover so let's get to it!

• After an extensive gestation period, one of our mad scientists Andy Wilkinson just announced the first GA release of the Spring REST Docs project which makes it easy to pull together automatic and human-augmented API documentation based on the tests used to exercise the APIs under test. Spring REST Docs has become a runaway success and it's definitely worth your time.
• Spring Tool Suite lead Martin Lippert just published a nice blog on the powerful local Spring Boot applications feature in STS
• Dr. Mark Pollack just announced the release of Spring XD 1.3M1 which…

Welcome to another installation of This Week in Spring! As usual we've got a lot to cover this week so let's get to it!

• I love the new Spring Initializr!
• Spring Tool Suite lead Martin Lippert just announced STS 3.7.1
• Spring framework lead Juergen Hoeller has put together a lovely post that speaks to how to read claimed Java EE 7 proliferation
• Jaime Lopez - who was in some of my talks at Spring I/O in Barcelona, Spain, earlier this year - wrote an amazing introduction to Spring Boot - check it out!
• This blog nicely introduces using Spring's AbstractFeedView, powered by the ROME RSS and Atom library, to build feeds for a web application
• Want to run Spring Boot on the Glassfish-powered Payara Micro?
• Hey, the ProgrammingFree YouTube video channel has a nice post …

Welcome to another installation of This Week in Spring! To those of you reading from the US, let me be the first to wish you a very happy national coffee day! As usual, we've got a lot to cover so let's get to it!

• have you been checking out the Annotated Spring site? It's wonderful! Packed with easily digsted screencasts on getting started with Spring (sort of like the Rails Casts of yore)
• our pal Greg Turnquist is at it again, with part 3 of his epic React.js and Spring Data REST tutorial
• not one to relax, Greg also posted an awesome new guide on building CRUD applications with Vaadin and Spring Boot
• Spring Data ninja Thomas Risberg has just announced Spring for Apache Hadoop 2.3 M3
• Spring Integration Java Config DSL lead Artem Bilan just announced the 1.1 GA release! This is a huge…

Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This week, fresh after an incredible SpringOne2GX 2015, I'm.. a little burnt if I'm honest! :D BUT, Spring endures and I'm this week in Amsterdam with our pal Martin Deinum helping a large group of developers make the cloud native journey with Spring Boot, Spring Cloud and Cloud Foundry.

• Spring Boot co-lead Phillip Webb announced that Spring Boot 1.2.6 is now available!. Also interesting: this release was done live on stage at SpringOne2GX 2015! (Thanks JFrog!)
• our pal Matti Tahvonen has just posted guest blog on the Spring IO blog on how to use the recently 1.0 Spring Boot & Vaadin integration
• the first Spring Cloud Brixton milestone is now available complete with support for Zookeeper Discovery, Consul Discovery, Lattice Discovery, cluster leadership election and locks, and distributed tracing support
• Niklas Heidloff has put together a post on deploying a Spring Boot application to Bluemix using Docker in 20 minutes…

Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This week, we're in beautiful Washington DC for the amazing SpringOne2GX 2015!

It's been an amazing event packed with amazing, pivotal moments that saw more than a thousand attendees - including engineers from some of the largest websites in the world - Rakuten, Alibaba, and Netflix, among others - join us here in Washington DC to learn and love what Pivotal is doing with and around Spring.

Here are some of my favorite moments:

• this year saw Pivotal take cloud-native further and faster than anyone and SpringOne2GX has been a huge celebration of this drive: GET CLOUD NATIVE.
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Welcome to another installation of This Week in Spring! This week I left Tokyo, Japan, and have been in Shanghai, China, speaking to a few large-scale startups - including Ele.me, the largest food delivery service and application in a very crowded Chinese market with more than 2 million orders every day - about building cloud-native applications using Spring Boot, Spring Cloud and Cloud Foundry! Tomorrow, it's off to Oslo, Norway, for the amazing JavaZone conference. I love this conference and have, in the last two years, been unable to attend because it was concurrent with SpringOne2GX…

Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! The Spring team is hard at work on all the latest and greatest ahead of the SpringOne2GX event in Washington DC! Time is really flying! I can't beleive what we're staring down September already! This week I'm in Tokyo, Japan, participating in the Spring User Group's huge Spring in Summer event where I gave a keynote and two talks, on Spring Boot and Spring Cloud. The one day event attracted some of the company's largest websites and was a lot of fun!

Anyway, without further ado, let's get to it!

• Spring Data Gosling goes GA!
• Spring ninja Greg Turnquist just announced the first installment of his tutorial on using Spring with React.js
• Erik, of the Programming with Erik blog, has put together an interesting post on using Spring Boot with Ember.js
• I dig this blog that answers the question, Why JHipster? (JHipster is a yeoman code-generator for Angular.js frontends and Spring Boot backends)
• The Kotan code blog has a nice post on securing Spring Boot webservices
• This Russian-language post looks at how to use Java FX and Spring Boot
• This blog looks at the Spring Cloud configuration server
• Biju Kunjummen has a nice post on using …

Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This week I'm in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil for the lovely QCon Rio conference, and then I'm off to Tokyo, Japan for a Spring in Summer conference for local Spring users!

The team is abuzz with excitement leading up to this year's SpringOne2GX 2016, the biggest and best SpringOne2GX, ever! This year, you're going to see us do WAY more with WAY less and get it to production, to boot! This is exciting for everyone of us and it will be for audience members, as well!

• our pal Kenny Bastani put together a followup post in his series on Spring Cloud about polyglot persistence with Spring Cloud
• Spring for Hadoop lead Thomas Risberg just announced 2.3M2, complete with support for running batch tasklets, improved Spring Boot integration, and improved YARN support
• Singaporean Guest bloggers Han Lim and Tony Nguyen have written up a very cool blog on migrating from .jsp-based applications to Angular.js
• John Thompson has a nice post on using Spring Boot with ActiveMQ over on DZone
• Saravanan Subramanian has a nice post on getting started with RabbitMQ
• Kathy Thomas has a written up and shared a presentation on building a …

Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! As usual, we've got a lot to cover so let's get to it! This week I'm back in São Paulo, Brazil, to visit customers, then it's off to Rio for QCon Rio! If you're in either city, message me on Twitter and let's grab a coffee!

• Today, Pivotal CEO Paul Maritz stepped down [and welcomed Pivotal Labs founder Rob Mee as the new CEO. There's a post by Paul and by Rob. Thank you, Paul, and welcome Rob!
• the amazing Scott Frederick just announced the general availability of Spring Cloud Connectors 1.2.0! - check this out!
• Spring ninja Stéphane Nicoll just announced Spring Boot 1.3M4, with fixes and improvements aplenty!
• Spring Integration lead Gary Russell just announced a CRAZY packed new Spring Integration 4.2 release including, but not limited to, support for security Context Propagation, STOMP client channel adapters, metrics, new Spring Framework 4.2 event channel adapters, a process barrier component, last modified file list filters, codec, JMS shared subscriptions, (S)FTP improvements, SOAP Action Propagation, …

Welcome to another installation of This Week in Spring! As usual, we've got a lot to cover so let's get to it!

• Spring ninja Stephane Nicoll just announced Spring Boot 1.3.0.M3, chock full of great features including HTTP session persistence, JMS and AMQP improvements, logging improvements, and auto-configurations for the H2 Database console and embedded MongoDB.
• Spring Batch lead Michael Minella just announced Spring Batch 3.0.5
• Check out this cool look at using Spring Boot to process Twitter feeds with Neo4j
• check out this interesting Chinese-language post on using .yml with Spring Boot
• Disid corporation has just announced a maintenance release for Spring Roo
• Just saw this post. Our very own Cornelia Davis, director of platform engineering, was recognized as one of the top 10 women in cloud by CloudNOW! As she has for years now, she'll be at SpringOne2GX…