Announcing the winner of our #LearningSpringBoot contest…. /cc @PacktPub

By Greg Turnquist

Greg L. Turnquist worked on the Spring team for over thirteen years and is a senior staff technical content engineer at Cockroach Labs. He was the lead for Spring Data JPA and Spring Web Services. He wrote Packt's best-selling title, Learning Spring Boot 2.0 2nd Edition, and its 3rd Edition follow-up along many others.

February 3, 2015

Over the past month, we have had several entries. We have rallied together an international set of both contestants and judges. And here are the results!

The contestants

First of all, let’s list the applications that were submitted (in alphabetical order).

1. Mercury

This app is used for piping various types of traffic over different systems. It leverages Spring Boot’s conditional settings, allowing the user to customize as needed. It also has a hypermedia-based RESTful API.

2. Polaromatic

This application shows cute eye candy. It ingests files and manipulates them to look like “Polaroid” snaphots and dynamically displays them on the screen. It has a Spring Boot CLI script to fetch pictures from Flickr. It is Groovy all the way (all the way to the web templates). It uses websockets, Spring Integration, has nice Spock test cases, and

3. VotesApp

This application is a bot that listens in on chat sessions to count votes for/against spontaneous activities. That way, they can quickly get a tally of who all is going/not going on the fly. It has a pluggable architecture, comes with a video demo on an Android smartphone, uses Project Reactor, and leverages Spring’s profile support.

The results

Each of these apps was top notch. The contestants showed real skill. As judges, it was very hard because each team went in a different direction. Spring Boot offers a lot of concise and flexible power, and each of the entries used it well, just differently.

The winner **drum roll**

And the winner is…..Polaromatic! If you want to see, the winner has a running copy here. Visit it and simply wait a few seconds to see the outcome. The team behind Polaromatic has won a free copy of Learning Spring Boot.

Thanks for all who entered!

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