As usual, though, the internet has given us a lot of great content to look at this last week, so let's dive right into the roundup!

continued her amazing series on Cloud Foundry workers over on the Cloud Foundry blog last week, this time introducing the support for Spring developers. I followed up with some more nuanced examples introducing how to use Spring Integration gateways, and Spring Batch jobs and core Spring's @Scheduled annotation in conjunction with Cloud Foundry workers. Cloud Foundry advocate Andy Piper and I have penned an article that helps you take your first steps on Cloud Foundry with a simple Spring application in the new JavaTech Journal, the online magazine from the producers of the JAX…

public interface StockSymbolLookupClient { StockSymbolLookup lookupSymbol (String symbol) throws Throwable; }

Also, be sure to check out part 2, this Wednesday, May 3rd for both Europe and North America!

routinely provide amazing content on all things Spring.

Here's Part 1 and Part 2.