As you might have gathered from my Java EE 7 blog post, we are planning for a Spring Framework 5.0 generation with a 2016 availability horizon. We'll be tracking JDK 9's release candidates then since one of our key themes is comprehensive JDK 9 support.

The feature planning for Spring 5 is still in the works. We are going to present a more in-depth plan at SpringOne this year, so stay tuned! Nevertheless, I would like to take this opportunity to reach out to you for feedback about our intended system requirements:

We will definitely raise our minimum to JDK 8+. This is a prerequisite since it allows us to have a cleaner codebase across the framework, to introduce default method implementations in our core interfaces, and to depend on JDK 8 API types (e.g. CompletableFuture, java.util.function interfaces) in our…

Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! What a week! This week I'm in Kansas City for the 6,000+-strong developer conference of a single company's developers and then it's back to New York City for QCon NYC where I'll be talking up building cloud-native applications with Spring Boot and Spring Cloud. If you're in either place be sure to reach out to me and let's talk shop (Spring, and, optionally, in Kansas City, BBQ..)

• Spring co-founder and project lead Juergen Hoeller put together two must-read posts this week: the first looks at Java 8 and Spring 4 adoption. ALSO, much, much, much more importantly: HE MENTIONED THIS WEEK IN SPRING :D #WIN.
• Juergen also posted is one of my favorite in years, a brutally honest look at the Java EE 7 landscape and the depressing lack of (big-vendor) supported implementations options for production-supported Java EE containers. You know, the man has a point..
• The amazing Dr. Pollack (see above!) announced Spring XD 1.2 RC1. The new release is packed with lots of new stuff including an Apache Ambari plugin to package and deploy Spring XD into production, new analytics, new features and performance improvements for the Apache Kafka support, improved HA configuration for RabbitMQ, Sqoop metastore support, and a lot…

For security reasons, browsers prohibit AJAX calls to resources residing outside the current origin. For example, as you're checking your bank account in one tab, you could have the evil.com website in another tab. The scripts from evil.com shouldn’t be able to make AJAX requests to your bank API (withdrawing money from your account!) using your credentials.

Cross-origin resource sharing (CORS) is a W3C specification implemented by most browsers that allows you to specify in a flexible way what kind of cross domain requests are authorized…

We’re pleased to announce the first version of the Apache Ambari plugin for Spring XD.

Ambari is a cluster provisioning tool to install and manage various Apache projects like HDFS, YARN, Zookeeper or Kafka. Ambari has a concept of a stack definition which is used by both Pivotal and Hortonworks. The stack definition is usually made up of components supported by the maintainer.

This Ambari integration adds support for provisioning Spring XD with Pivotal HD 3.0 and Hortonworks HDP 2.2.

Spring XD is not part of the main Ambari distribution for…

Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This week I'm in New York City in advance of QCon NYC next week talking to customers and working with the local Pivotal Labs team. If you're around be sure to say hi and let's talk code.

So, as usual, we've got a lot to cover so let's get to it.

1. Our pal Nicolas Frankel's put together an awesome post on modularizing configuration for integration testing with Spring

• Spring Cloud co-lead Spencer Gibb just announced that Spring Cloud Consul 1.0.0.M1 is now available
• Don't miss Jamie O’Meara's upcoming webinar on continuous integration with Jenkins, Spring and Cloud Foundry
• Check out Phil Dutson's upcoming webinar on moving .jsp and JSTL pages to Thymeleaf
• Spring Integration lead Gary Russell just announced Spring Integration 4.2M1 is now available
• check out the replay of Marten Deinum's awesome talk that looks at how to modernize legacy applications with Spring
• Janne Valkealahti just announced that Spring Statemachine 1.0.0.M2 has been released…

Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! There is a lot to talk about, so let's get to it!

• First, the big news! Spring framework lead and OG Spring Guy Juergen Hoeller just announced that Spring framework 4.2 RC1 is now available! This new release includes lots of amazing new features so be sure to check it out! It includes anotation detection on Java 8 default methods, annotation-based application events, first-class annotation attibute aliases, nest path processing for direct field binding, data binding and conversion for JSR…

In this article we continue our discussion of how to use Spring Security with Angular JS in a "single page application". Here we show how to write and run unit tests for the client-side code using the Javascript test framework Jasmine. This is the eighth in a series of articles, and you can catch up on the basic building blocks of the application or build it from scratch by reading the first article, or you can just go straight to the source code in Github (the same source code as Part I, but with tests now added). This article actually has…

Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! As usual, we've got a lot to cover this week so let's get to it!

• the good Dr. Dave Syer is back it again with this seventh installment on how to better modularize the Angular.js client that talks to a backend Spring Security, Spring Boot, and Spring Security OAuth-powered service and with this eighth installment which looks at how to test that Angular.js application!
• Spring Security lead and all around amazing, test-driven dude, Rob Winch just announced Spring Test HtmlUnit 1.0.0.RC1 with a lot of new polish.
• Spring Batch lead Michael Minella just announced that…

In this article we continue our discussion of how to use Spring Security with Angular JS in a "single page application". Here we show how to modularize the client-side code, and how to use "nice" URL paths without the fragment notation (e.g. "/#/login") which Angular uses by default, but most users dislike. This is the seventh in a series of articles, and you can catch up on the basic building blocks of the application or build it from scratch by reading the first article, or you can just go straight to the source code in Github. We will be…