Welcome to another installation of This Week in Spring! This week I'm in Chicago speaking to customers and then it's off to Washington D.C., and New York City for Cloud Native meetups! I hope you'll consider joining us at either event! Time sure is flying! We're darned close to 2016! Anyway, as usual, lots to cover so let's get to it! I really like the looks of this Caffeine local cache. It uses a pretty interesting algorithm to ensure near optimal cache hits It already features a JSR 170 (JCache) integration which means using it could be as simple as configuring the JCache adapter along with…
Wow! Can you believe we're already staring down 2016? Time sure flies! Remember, This Week in Spring was started the first week of 2011, so we'll soon mark the fifth anniversairry of TWiS! This week I'm in Shanghai, China, for the Cloud Foundry Summit Asia and then off to Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, USA, for the Rich Web Experience! If you're in either place, don't hesitate to reach me! As usual, we've got a lot to cover so let's get to it! Spring Boot co-founder and Spring framework contributor Phil Webb put up a really thoughtful post helping people looking at Spring (which has been around for…
Welcome to another installation of This Week in Spring! Here in the US it's the week of Thanksgiving, where - hopefully - we take a moment to note the many things for which we're thankful. I'm sure I speak for the whole team here at Pivotal when I say: we're thankful for you, dear community. Thank you. And so, as usual, we've got a lot to get to it. All the better, in fact, for the lazy hours after turkey! Dr. Mark Pollack has just announced the release of Spring XD 1.3 GA and Spring Flo for Spring XD 1.0. This is a huge release! Spring XD 1.3.0 supports job composition DSLs, Spring Flo for…
My goodness the time has flown! We're already staring down the beginning of 2016! Welcome to another installation of This Week in Spring! This week I'm in beautiful Casablanca, Morocco for Devoxx Morocco! This is the fifth Devoxx this year - with events in Belgium, UK, France, Poland and now Morocco - and I have the rare honor of having spoken at all of them! #fullDevoxx We've got a lot to cover this week so let's get to it! Spring Boot 1.3 has just been released! This is the most epic release of Spring Boot yet and I won't even try to do the release notes! Just go check it out and visit the…
Welcome to another installation of This Week in Spring! This week I'm in Antwerp, Belgium for the grand mother of all Devoxxes (Devoxxen?), Devoxx Belgium! I'm here along with several members of the team and if you're around, don't hesitate to say hi! Dr. Mark Pollack has just announced the release of Spring XD 1.3RC1 Stormpath, the cloud, and on-premise, identity provider as-a-service has put up an exhaustive blog on using their Spring Boot auto-configuration with Spring Security! This is a really cool integration. I hope people reward their hard work in striving for the most powerful…
Welcome to another installation of This Week in Spring! This week I'm in Sofia, Bulgaria for one of my favorite shows, the epic Java2Days event! Last week saw the release (finally!) of Pivotal Cloud Foundry 1.6, which contains more than a year and half of highly anticipated features and heavy lifting. The new release includes, among many other things, support for platform-managed GitLab, JFrog Artifactory, and CloudBees Jenkins CI; support for microservices infrastructure including the Spring Cloud Config Server, and Spring Cloud Eureka; and support for Docker container images and .NET…
Welcome to another installation of This Week in Spring! This week I'm at JavaOne 2015 in San Francisco along with the rest of the Pivotal team. This week the Pivotal Spring team is out in full force, come stop by and say hi! There are some great new SpringOne2GX 2015 recordings on line as well as some great community content this week so let's get to it! Spring Cloud cofounder's Spencer Gibb and Dr. David Syer's talk on the Spring Cloud Developer experience from SpringOne2GX 2015! Spring tools ninja Martin Lippert continues his series with this third installment on using Spring Boot…
Welcome to another installation of This Week in Spring! This week is the first week (of many) where the crazy awesome [https://twitter.com/pieterhumphrey](Pieter Humphrey) has released scores of SpringOne2GX 2015 videos for our binge watching enjoyment! Most of this week's bountiful roundup is thanks to Pieter's meticulous transcoding, uploading and posting videos from SpringOne2GX 2015 - thanks Pieter! So without further ado, let's take a look at some of this week's selection including a LOT of content from SpringOne2GX, including.. ..Juergen Holler and Stephane Nicoll's talk presenting the…
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…
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…
