Some months ago I attended the Spring IO 2015 event hosted in Barcelona. There were quite a big list of interesting talks and workshops regarding the main new features of the Spring ecosystem, which includes a new version of Spring, Spring Cloud, micro-services architecture, WebSockets, etc. Something that kept my attention was that all or almost all of the examples created for the talks and workshops were created with the amazing tool created by Pivotal and released last year called Spring Boot. Before Spring Boot, creating Spring-based application sometimes was a painful process in terms of…

If you work as a portlet developer on Liferay Portal based applications, you will probably know that Liferay allows you to use lots of different frameworks in order to accomplish this goal. For instance, you are free to use Struts, JSF, Vaadin, Spring or any other framework you prefer. In adition, Liferay provides out of the box two extra frameworks/tools that can help us in our development tasks:

Stock price variabilities are nowadays even more affected by positive and negative news. New media channels like Twitter, Facebook, Finance Pages and News Pages, make the news rapidly available and accessible for everybody. It is an enormous amount of distributed data (Big Data), which could no longer be evaluated by a single individual. Powerful and lots of hardware along with suitable systems are needed to gather and interpret this mass of data. With Spring XD (Extreme Spring Data), such a system for big data interpretation and analytics is available. The aim of Spring XD is to facilitate…