Greetings Apache Geode Community- It is my pleasure to follow-up with several announcements and releases concerning the Apache Geode ecosystem from the Spring portfolio.
1. First, we moved 2 versions since my last announcement [1] to *Spring Data for Apache Geode* *2.0.5.RELEASE* (*Kay-SR5*). 1.1. The official release announcement is here [2]. 1.2. See the changelog [3] for additional details. Specifically look at the changes in versions 2.0.4.RELEASE and 2.0.5.RELEASE. 1.3. One of the more interesting changes to SDG is the ability to register QueryPostProcessors to process (OQL) queries generated from *Repository* query methods when using the convention. See SDG's Reference Documentation for more information [4]. 2. Second, we have already released our first milestone for *Spring Data* *Lovelace* [5], which, of course, includes *Spring Data for Apache Geode* *2.1.0.M1*. You may remember [6], I have many things planned this year for the next few versions of *Spring Data for Apache Geode*. 3. Third, *Spring Session for Apache Geode* has also jumped to versions since my last announcement [7] to *2.0.2.RELEASE*. This release primarily consist of version updates and is based on *Spring Session core* 2.0.2.RELEASE. 4. Lastly, it was just announced [8] that *Spring Boot 2.0* went GA, so is now at version *2.0.0.RELEASE*. \o/ .oO(Yay!) It's been a long haul but the timing is perfect since I am only a few weeks away from releasing the first milestone of *Spring Boot for Apache Geode*. I have been making good progress on this project [9] and I essentially have only testing, documentation and examples left to complete. * Of course, it will be based on the newly minted *Spring Boot* 2.0.0.RELEASE, and will cover many things, such as, but not limited to, providing an auto-configured ClientCache instance OOTB that will automatically authenticate when you push your *Spring Boot*, ClientCache apps to PCF when interfacing to PCC. * Using Apache Geode as a caching provider in *Spring's Cache Abstraction* will be enabled by default as will SDG *Repositories*. * PDX is the default serialization format and there will be NO need to explicitly register a PdxSerializer to identify and serialize your application domain object types; it will just work as it should! * Annotated Continuous Query Listener, POJO-based method callbacks will be enabled by default; so just start by declaring your CQs and you will receive events. Remember this wicked cool feature [10]. Example here [11]. * Interface-based Function Executions are also enabled by default. Just declare your Apache Geode Functions using an interface and SDG combined with the new *Spring Boot* support will handle the rest. You just invoke your Function like any other POJO method, in a clean and Object-Oriented way! So many exciting things planned in *Spring Boot for Apache Geode*, I look forward to rolling this out soon and getting your feedback. Stay tuned! Well, that is all for now folks. Regards, -- -John [1] http://markmail.org/message/mhdsrml6ixhggecj [2] https://spring.io/blog/2018/02/28/spring-data-kay-sr5-released [3] https://docs.spring.io/spring-data/geode/docs/2.0.5.RELEASE/changelog.txt [4] https://docs.spring.io/spring-data/geode/docs/current/reference/html/#gemfire-repositories.queries.post-processing [5] https://spring.io/blog/2018/02/06/spring-data-lovelace-m1-released [6] http://markmail.org/message/cneo6dhl6tvu2ib5 [7] http://markmail.org/message/ssk5jgoh344cyf54?q=list:org%2Eapache%2Egeode%2Euser+order:date-backward+from:%22John+Blum%22&page=1 [8] https://spring.io/blog/2018/03/01/spring-boot-2-0-goes-ga [9] https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-boot-data-geode [10] https://docs.spring.io/spring-data/geode/docs/current/reference/html/#bootstrap-annotation-config-continuous-queries [11] https://github.com/jxblum/contacts-application/tree/master/continuous-query-example
