Welcome to another installation of This Week in Spring!

• Spring Integration ninja Artem Bilan just announced Spring Integration 5.0.M3. The new release includes an integration test framework, speed improvements, support for the Spring 5 reactive WebClient, retroactive restoration of file trees when using the (S)FTP and AWS S3 inbound adapters, a smarter SOAP web-services gateway, and much more.
• Spring Integration lead Gary Russell just announced Spring for Apache Kafka 1.2.0 and 1.1.4
• Andy Wilkinson just debuted a look at the new Gradle Spring Boot 2.0 plugin
• in last week's Spring Tips I looked at how to standup a Spring Cloud Security-powered OAuth auth service
• Spring AMQP lead Gary Russell just announced Spring AMQP 2.0.0M3, packed with new features supporting testing, smarter handling for null messages, and so much more.
• Are you going to be at not-to-miss OSCON event in Austin, TX? We'd love to see you! I'll be there, too!
• I enjoyed revisting this video from the Cloud Foundry launch event. My memory is hazy, but that event - I think - was April 11th, and uploaded on April 12th. Either way, happy birthday Cloud Foundry! You've changed the world with style.
• Jared Ruckle has a great look all the new features in PCF 1.10 - check it out!
• if you want to learn more about our thinking about taking Cloud Foundry to market, you'll love this a16z podcast with one of Pivotal's visionaries, James Watters
• I liked this quick look by Gaurav Rai Mazra at using Spring Data JPA with an embedded database
• Andreas Falk has a nice article on securing Spring and Angular.js applications
• the Baeldung site has done yet another very interesting look at the trends in Java, pointing again to the continued growth of Spring Boot and Java 8 - good news!
• just a friendly reminder, Alibaba uses Spring throughout and AliExpress, which serves 100+ million uses, is using Spring Boot and Spring Cloud
• I hope you'll join me and many others at Voxxed Days Singapore
• Alex Falappa‏ hints at some of the very cool new support for Apache NetBeans
• Stefan Rempfer put together a nice example of using Spring Cloud Zuul with Vaadin
• I love this blog by Robert Kapala on how they migrated their investment bank to Spring Boot
• Jonas Hecht put together a nice post on running Spring Boot applications on Windows using Ansible