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, January 24th, 2012

Engineering | January 25, 2012 | ...
the Spring 3.1 webinar's recording on the SpringSource YouTube page. The next item is a video is one of my favorites. It's the second part of a two part talk that Ramnivas Laddad, Scott Andrews and Jennifer Hickey - all SpringSource heavyweights now also working on Cloud Foundry - gave at SpringOne 2GX 2011 on using Cloud Foundry with Spring. So, where is the first part? I'm not so sure. I hope InfoQ also got that video, as well, but either way this is a very useful video. And, they're a great testament to the value of the content created for SpringOne 2GX.

This Year in Spring

News | December 27, 2011 | ...
Among the many new, exciting features and themes in Spring 3.1, there is Spring Core provides the RestTemplate which facilitates RESTful communication between clients and servers. Spring Android provides support for consuming RESTful web services from Android devices. Android applications. Additionally, Spring Security OAuth, a project for Spring Security that's dedicated to helping people expose secured services using OAuth, started its march to GA this year, as well.

This Week in Spring, December 20th, 2011 (Holiday Edition)

Engineering | December 20, 2011 | ...
The holiday season is upon us and many people will be celebrating! No matter what holiday you're celebrating (or if you're celebrating at all), let me wish you a wonderful week and the happiest of holidays. To tide you over we've packed this week's roundup to the brim. Enjoy! Santa's elves could learn a thing or two from the SpringSource engineers! Alan Stewart announced Spring Roo 1.2.0 GA on Saturday. This version of Roo has caught the attention of a lot of people. While there are many new features, some of my favorites are the multi-module Maven project support (which lets you, for…

This Week in Spring, December 6th, 2011

Engineering | December 07, 2011 | ...
Um, OK, ignore me. Just astonished. Let's get into the roundup because there is a lot of new content this week. to your repository queries. There's not a lot of details here, because he describes a real-world application with many moving parts, but it's useful to see how the pieces stack together. Using Hibernate? This blog, by frequent Spring blogger Baeldung, introduces

This Week in Spring, November 29th, 2011

Engineering | November 30, 2011 | ...
Daniel Mikusa has put together a fantastic post introducing JVM performance tuning while running Apache Tomcat. The post introduces the various command line options, including -Xss, -XX:PermSize and -XX:MaxPermSize, as well as some details about choice of JVM garbage collector. Nice post!

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