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 - November 4th, 2014

Engineering | November 04, 2014 | ...
Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This week I'm on the road talking to enthusiastic Spring developers in Casablanca, Morocco at the JMaghreb conference and then it's off to London (again!) for the amazing Spring eXchange. If you're at either, be sure to say hi! Artem Bilan, Spring Integration ninja and a personal hero of mine, has just announced the Spring Integration RC1 release. I don't know if you've seen the Java configuration DSL, but it makes writing complex integration flows a breeze! It takes advantage of Java 8's lamba support. Check it out! Remember…

This Week in Spring - October 28, 2014

Engineering | October 29, 2014 | ...
Hello from New York City! Tonight I'll be addressing the Cloud Foundry User Group on how to build Spring Boot and Spring Cloud-based microservices that run on Cloud Foundry - I hope you'll join us! And if you're in Boston, then come hang out when I give the same talk there on Thursday! Spring Social lead and all around Spring ninja Craig Walls announced the Spring Sync project and then wrote up a nice introduction to it, which - this is taken from the post because it's perfectly stated there - addresses efficient communication between client applications and Spring backends by employing…

This Week in Spring - Tuesday October 14th, 2014

Engineering | October 14, 2014 | ...
Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This week I've been at Silicon Valley Code Camp, JAX London and Geekout UK talking to developers about how to build scalable, microservice-centric Spring Boot applications on Cloud Foundry. It's been a lot fun talking to enthusiastic developers (on both sides of the Atlantic!). Without further ado, let's get on with the roundup! Spring Boot co-lead Phil Webb just announced the availability of Spring Boot 1.2.0.M2 which includes, among other things, auto-configuration for Jersey, log4j, commons-dbcp support, a smarter disk usage health…

This Week in Spring - October 7th, 2014

Engineering | October 08, 2014 | ...
Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This week, I've been at the Couchbase Connect conference talking to developers about Spring Data Couchbase (and Spring Boot, Spring XD, Spring Session, and more..). Fun show, fun crowd! Next week, I'll be at JAX London and Geekout UK, so be sure to say hi if you're around. Now, with that, let's get on to the roundup.. The good Dr. Pollack just announced the 1.0.1 release of Spring XD, the easiest way to build data-integration and ingestion solutions. It may be only a 1.0.1 release, but make no mistake: there are some very cool features in…

This Week in Spring - Tuesday September 23rd, 2014

Engineering | September 23, 2014 | ...
Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This morning, I had the joy of presenting with my pal Joram Barrez on using the Activiti BPMN workflow engine with Spring (and Spring Boot). That talk should be online in the next few weeks or so. I'll also be co-presenting with Joram this week at the Alfresco Summit (on the very same topic). If you missed SpringOne2GX 2014, check out the Day 1 and Day 2 wrap ups where can learn about NetFlix, Spring Boot and microservice architecture, among many other things. The replay of the webinar talk that I gave last week, Bootiful Microservices…

This Week in Spring - September 16th, 2014

Engineering | September 16, 2014 | ...
Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! We're all back from last week's epic SpringOne2GX 2014, but not resting on our laurels! As soon as I returned from SpringOne2GX, I set about preparing for this morning's webinar, Bootiful Microservices with Spring Boot. That seems to have really resonated well and this is, principally, because [Spring Boot](http://cupchino.shop/projects/spring-boot) and Spring Cloud are awesome! I can't until all the amazing videos on the topic from SpringOne2GX and this webinar itself are available to share with you. To me it feels like a way for Spring for…

SpringOne2GX 2014 - Day 1

Engineering | September 10, 2014 | ...
SpringOne2GX kicked off with a bang on Monday night! "The Ebb and Flow" of Development The keynote kicked off with Pivotal's own SVP of R&D, Hugh Williams (formerly of e-Bay and Microsoft research) who talked about the ebb (the awkward interruptions in momentum) and flow of software development. Hugh touched on his prior lives at Microsoft (where he helped develop the Bing search engine) and at eBay (a huge Spring user, we learned!) and spoke about what Spring brings to the table: the ability to be nimble, agile. Spring IO Platform Next up was Spring framework lead [Juergen Hoeller](Spring…

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