Hi, Spring fans! We hope you'll join us for an interactive, 24-hour long, virtual conference called Spring Live. Here's what you need to know: it's 24-hours long, end to end, so there's bound to be content you can watch no matter what part of the world you're in. It's free! It's interactive - so the speakers will be hanging around to answer questions and do Q/A. Some speakers are going to pre-record their talks proper just so they can spend the entire slot for their talk answering questions and interacting directly with you. We've invited experts from the wide world of Springdom from VMWare…

Spring Tips: FTP Integration

speaker: Josh Long (@starbuxman)

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment of Spring Tips, we look at a topic that's near and dear to my heart: integration! And yes, you may recall that the very first installment of Spring Tips looked at Spring Integration. If you haven't already watched that one, you should. So, while we're not going to revisit Spring Integration fundamentals, we're going to take a deep dive into one area fo support in Spring Integration: FTP. FTP is all about file synchronization. Broadly, in the world of Enterprise Application Integration (EAI), we…

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to yet another installment of This Week in Spring! We're already midway through March 2020, and I can't believe how crazy things have gotten! You're no doubt experiencing something equally as odd too. The pandemic has truly changed this world in a way nothing else has in recent memory. It's crazy to think about the course this virus has taken and the journey we've all taken along with it.

I live in San Francisco, and we're currently under lockdown. It's technically a crime now to leave your home for anything but essential needs like food, medicine, or walking the dog. That's OK. That just leaves more time for us to learn and socialize, albeit online and from the confines of our own homes. We're very lucky, you know? How wild. Most of us who work on software should be able to work from home. There are some glaring exceptions, of course, as detailed in this epic megathread…

Time: about 15 minutes.

Some developers reading this post will have been using HTTP for many years by now. Most of them will also know that if you want to use HTTP with other messaging models — like fire-and-forget, for example — you must sometimes use clever workarounds like this one posted on Stackoverflow. That's because HTTP is a request-response protocol. It requires a request to be sent and a response to be received. It has no concept of a one-way message without any form of response.

RSocket takes a different approach. RSocket defines a new protocol layer on top of transports like TCP…

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment, we talk to John Hawley (@warty9), a Linux kernel hacker, an open-source enthusiast and someone who's able to answer questions about open-source at VMWare.

• The Spring Live registration page
• My blog announcing Spring Live
• John Hawley (@warty9) on Twitter
• Spring Tips: Java 14 (Can Your Java Do This?)
• the VMWare Open-Source Blog

On behalf of the team and everyone that contributed, I am pleased to announce that the third milestone of Spring Boot 2.3 has been released and is available from our milestone repository.

This release closes 89 issues and pull requests. Thanks to all those who have contributed.

Highlights of this milestone include:

• Support for gracefully shutting down the embedded web server
• Support for customizing the layers when building a layered jar with Maven
• Support for R2DBC
• Auto-configuration for Spring Integration's RSocket support
• Numerous dependency upgrades

For a complete list of changes and upgrade instructions, please see the Spring Boot 2.3 Release Notes on the wiki and the updated reference documentation…

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of Spring Tips! In this installment, we're going to look at the new features in Java 14 and their use in building Spring Boot-based applications.

Speaker: Josh Long (@starbuxman)

To get started, we need to use the latest and greatest version of Java, Java 14, which isn't - just yet - released yet. It is due to be shipped in early 2020. You can download early access releases on Java.net. You might also consider using SDKManager (sdk), which makes installing new JVM editions a trivial matter indeed.

Remember, there are new Java releases every 6 months. These new releases are usable in production but are only supported for the six months between one release and the next. Every now and then, the Java project also releases a long-term support (LTS) release. That release is currently Java 11. Java 14 is only a viable target for production until Java 15 comes out. And indeed, we're going to look at a lot of preview features…

Spring Cloud Data Flow team is pleased to announce the GA release of 2.4.2.

In this release, along with some bug fixes, we primarily focused on the server/client-side performance improvements on the stream management.

The REST layer in Spring Cloud Data Flow server is refactored to accommodate better pagination and performance when retrieving the runtime application statuses of streams. In addition to that, the SCDF dashboard pages are re-worked based on these changes. The Runtime Applications page in the Dashboard has a new layout where the runtime applications are grouped by their streams. The Streams page is also refactored to efficiently retrieve the stream status, application…

On behalf of the community, I'd like to announce the availability of the Spring Data Neumann M4 milestone release. It is planned to be the last milestone before the first release candidate.

Neumann M4 ships with 69 tickets fixed. It is built on top of Spring Framework 5.2.4 and will be picked up by Spring Boot 2.3.0 M3 for your convenience.

Finally, here are links to the reference documentation, changelogs, and artifacts of the individual project releases:

• Spring Data Commons 2.3 M4 - Artifacts - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data JDBC 2.0 M4 - Artifacts - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data JPA 2.3 M4 - Artifacts - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data for Apache Geode 2.3 M4 - Artifacts - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data KeyValue 2.3 M4 - Artifacts - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data Neo4j 5.3 M4 - Artifacts - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data for Apache Solr 4.2 M4 - Artifacts - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data MongoDB 3.0 M4 - Artifacts - Javadoc - Documentation - …