Hi, Spring fans! In this installment we explore the essential Spring bean. What are they, how are they created, and what do they mean to you?

Welcome to yet another amazing installment of This Week in Spring!

As usual, we've got a ton of stuff to get into, so let's dive right into it!

• Chris Bono announces the new versions of Spring Functions Catalog and Spring Cloud Streams Applications
• In last week's installment of A Bootiful Podcast, I talked to Spring Cloud Services and security guru Daniel Garnier-Moiroux about the nascent world and support in Spring Security of Passkeys.
• Spring Modulith 1.0.7 and 1.1.4 have been released! This introduces an updated ArchUnit 1.1.1 release, which in turn includes a fix to now support the new fat .jar format of Spring Boot. Spring Modulith applications that were using the runtime, actuator, and observability modules had been affected and should now properly…

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment, we revisit Spring Cloud Gateway, this time to look at the fantastic new support for Spring MVC, made all the more amazing by Java 21's virtual threads.

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment, I talk to my friend and colleague Daniel Garnier-Moiroux about the amazing awesome implications of passkeys in a Spring Security application.

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! We've had a really busy, wonderful week, as always, so let's dive right into it!

• We want you! ...to submit a talk to SpringOne 2024, in sunny Las Vegas! Hurry, the CFP closes May 3rd!
• Spring Shell 3.1.11, 3.2.4, and 3.3.0-m1 are now available
• Spring Modulith 1.2 RC1 has been released
• I love this post by prolific Spring AI contributor Christian Tzolov: Spring AI: Multimodality - Orbis Sensualium Pictus
• Spring Boot 3.3.0-RC1 is available now. That's right, RC1! Spring Boot 3.3 will soon be upon us! Now's the time to kick…

Hi, Spring fans! In this episode, more than 20 incredible years in the making, Spring founders Rod Johnson (@springrod) and Juergen Hoeller (@springjuergen) discuss Spring since its 1.0 release in 2004

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment, we look at how to create GRPC-based services with Spring Boot.

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! I'm writing this from beautiful Paris, France, ahead of the amazing Devoxx France event. I've come to almost all of these events over the years. It's hard to believe it's been more than a decade since the show was first announced. I remember when these franchise editions - Devoxx UK, Devoxx FR, Devoxx PL, Devoxx MA, Devoxx UA, etc. - were new and novel. Now, rumor has it, this year edition of Devoxx FR will be even larger than Devoxx Belgium! What a coup. I love Devoxx. I've talked about it endlessly, but last year's…

Jetbrains Developer Advocate Marit van Dijk on reading code, IntelliJ IDEA, and more.

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment, I look at the excellent Spring Expression Language, an embedded language for resolving simple expressions that is built right into the Spring Framework.