Spring XD 1.1 M2 and 1.0.3 released---support Kafka

Official address: http://spring.io/blog/2014/12/23/spring-xd-1-1-m2-and-1-0-3-released

On behalf of the Spring XD team, I am very pleased to announce the second milestone release of Spring XD 1.1 and the 1.0.3 Maintenance release.

Download Links:
* 1.1.0.m2 Release:zip, 1.0.3.release:zip

The 1.1 M2 release includes bug fixes and enhancements as well as several new features:

• Kafka based Message Bus. If Kafka is your middleware du jour, you'll feel right at home.
• Batching and compression support for RabbitMQ provides significantly increased effective message rate throughput.
• Develop Processor modules using Project Reactor ' s Stream API. The stream API is based on the reactive STREAMS specification that provides a standard for asynchronous Stream processing With Non-blocking backpressure. This allows is functional programming model as the basis for processing event streams. Combined with XD's support for Data partitioning on the Message Bus, you can create very powerful distributed stream PROCE Ssing Solutions.
• Easily develop, test, and package custom modules. A Parent Pom bootstraps All the dependencies required for building a custom module and bundles your module and Dependencie S into a single uberjar file. There is also support for integration testing your module with JUnit using a embedded single node server.
• Upload custom modules to the admin server over HTTP.
• Role based authorization of REST endpoints give you control over "who can do".
• File based authentication as a simple alternative to LDAP.
• Sqoop Batch Job Integration

Please see the Reactor-moving-average project for a example of using Reactor's Stream API and the si-dsl-module for a COM Plete example of developing a custom module.

Of note for the next release of Spring XD 1.1 RC1 we'll be including

• Processor modules that use Spark streaming
• Processor modules that use RxJava
• Kafka Message Bus and Kafka source improvements based on a revamped Spring Kafka Library
• Granular security ACLs to support who can create or destroy streams and jobs

Feedback is very important, so please get on touch with questions and comments via

• StackOverflow spring-xd Tag
• Spring JIRA or GitHub issues

Spring XD 1.1 M2 and 1.0.3 released---support Kafka