Spring Cloud Stream 2.0 comes with a more consistent and simplified message transformation support. In this blog post we look into how we can convert a message in XML format received on a channel to JSON and send it to another channel to be consumed by further message handlers.

In this blog post, we will describe how you could configure HashiCorp Vault in a Cloud Foundry environment. In Cloud Foundry developers provision service instances and then bind those service instances to an application. The service broker is responsible to provide those service instances by interacting with the Cloud Controller. The service brokers advertise a catalog of service offerings and service plans in the marketplace (e.g. a single node Vault plan or a clustered multinode Vault plan). They also act on requests from the marketplace for provisioning, binding, unbinding, and…

Creating a batch-driven solution is pretty easy with Spring Batch. There is an excellent getting started guide on spring.io website, which explains the basics and provides example code how to start a batch job on application startup. However, batch jobs are typically executed as a result of an event. In this blog post, we are going to look how to trigger a Spring Batch job with a JMS message.