Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! I hope your holiday and new year was awesome! It's the beginning of a new year (I almost typed "2014"!), and we've got a lot of great stuff coming this year! Let's see what the internet has been doing this last week in the Spring community. Our friend Petri Kainulainen is back, and he's completely revamped his Spring Data JPA CRUD tutorial! Check it out! We've linked to it before in this roundup, but it's always worth re-reading! I really like this post that looks at introducing multitenancy into an application in terms of a JHipster-based…
Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This week, as is our tradition, we'll look back at a few of the big things that made 2014 a wonderful year to be a Spring developer. And, what a year it was! The tail end of last year saw Spring 4 GA and this year saw the Spring 4.1 release just shy of 9 short months after 4.0! Spring 4.x boasts a dizzying array of new features! Java 8 support, Java EE 7 support, new Spring MVC views, JSR 107 support, a powerful resource pipeline and the @Conditional annotation which of course made possible... Spring Boot, whose first 1.0 GA was in April…
Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! In a few short weeks we'll be in 2015! Will that be exciting? Of course. But this week's pretty exciting as well! So much good stuff this week. Spring Boot 1.2.0 is here! So many new features for Java EE (Servlet 3.1-baseline, JTA, JMS and JNDI support) and improved Jackson output, Actuator endpoints, CLI updates and performance. Spring Cloud is already tracking 1.2 and will be based on this soon, as well. Get the bits. Spring Boot 1.1.10 is now available with numerous fixes. Resident mad-scientist Andy Wilkinson just announced the latest…
Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! In a few short weeks we'll be in 2015! Will that be exciting? Of course. But this week's pretty exciting as well! So much good stuff this week. Spring Boot 1.2.0 is here! So many new features for Java EE (Servlet 3.1-baseline, JTA, JMS and JNDI support) and improved Jackson output, Actuator endpoints, CLI updates and performance. Spring Cloud is already tracking 1.2 and will be based on this soon, as well. Get the bits. Spring Boot 1.1.10 is now available with numerous fixes. Resident mad-scientist Andy Wilkinson just announced the latest…
Egads! Can you believe it's already almost the end of the year? Time has been screaming fast! It's the week of Thanksgiving for those of us in the United States. This is a wonderful time of year to sit back, find a nice Spring IO guide or blog to read, and then build something awesome.. oh, and it's an ideal time to spend in the company of friends and family and to reflect on those and that for which we're grateful. I'm sure I speak for the Spring team and Pivotal at large when I say that we're grateful for you, our inspiring community, users and customers. But if you do want something to read…
In this blog, I want to look at - and demonstrate - some of the many new features in Spring Boot 1.2 that make the lives of those coming from, or otherwise building on, Java EE easier. It's worth mentioning that a lot of this support has been possible with Spring before, of course, but now with Spring Boot 1.2, it's just so darned easy! First, here's an example program with notes after. The complete code listings, including the very sparce application.properties and the Maven build, are available online. JAX-RS with Jersey The example demonstrates Boot's new JAX-RS auto-configuration (in this…
Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This week I'm in sunny Sofia, Bulgaria for the Java2Days software conference. As usual, this show is way too much fun and the crowd's bigger and better than ever! Spring Boot 1.2.0 RC1 is now available! This release moves embedded Servlet containers to Tomcat 8 or Jetty 9, adds a new @SpringBootApplication annotation, adds JavaMail support, and registers additional Spring Boot actuator support Spring Session 1.0.0.RC1 is here with loads of features! Speaking of using Spring with ZeroTurnaround, join ZeroTurnaround's Adam Koblentz and I on…
Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This week I'm back in Silicon Valley, talking to developers at a handful of large technology-driven companies about taking their first steps with a cloud-native architecture. Interesting feedback, as ever! This week I'll be doing a meetup here in the bay area on building Bootiful microservices with Spring Cloud. Next week, I look forward to seeing people at Java2Days in Sofia, Bulgaria! C'ya there! Spring Integration lead Gary Russell has just announced Spring Integration 4.1.0 and Spring AMQP 1.4.0 final are now available! Spring Security…
Sometimes, teh Twitterz is an amazing place. Just last week I spent some time helping clarify the behavior of Spring's @Qualifier annotation, which is both older than JSR 330 and offers a richer superset of JSR 330's @Qualifier annotation. These misguided few seemed to be under the impression that Spring's annotation didn't offer the same degree of type-safety as the JSR 330 annotation. I don't know if it's because they simply hadn't read up on the support (which is fairly new, since it's only been around since 2007), or if it's because they work for companies that make their money if you…
