Hi, Spring fans! It's the week of February 18th, 2025, and you know what that means? ConFoo and Devnexus are nearly here! Next week, I'll be traveling to amazing Montreal, Canada, to speak at the ConFoo show for an amazing community, poutine, and technology! Then, a few days later, it's off to awesome Atlanta, Georgia, where I'll be doing a workshop, a talk on Spring AI with Dr. Mark Pollack, and my usual Spring Boot latest-and-greatest talk. If you're going to either of those shows (why not both?), please don't hesitate to say "salut" or "hello"!

There's a lot of great stuff in this week's…

Hi, Spring fans! In today's installment, I talk to Spring legend Glenn Renfro.

Hi, Spring fans! It's almost Valentine's day, and let me just say: I love the Spring community! It's such an exciting and interesting place to be. Thank you everyone for all that you do.

I'm busy preparing for ConFoo, in Montreal, Canada, and for Devnexus, in Atlanta, Georgia. If you're around be sure to stop and say salut or hi!

We've got an amazing lineup for you this weekend, so let's dive right into it.

• How to create dynamic SQL queries with Spring Boot
• I love this article looking at the amazing new features in Spring Application Advisor
• a lovely video by the amazing Greg Turnquist: Using JdbcTemplate with CockroachDB
• Spring AI: a Doot to GenAI heaven for Java developers - yup!
• in last week's installment of A Bootiful Podcast, I talked to "Just Use Postgres!" author Denis Magda
• I've got this queueud up: Spring AI Masterclass with Spring Boot..
• ..and this one: Spring AI with DeepSeek R1
• a gentle reminder that there are guides on …

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment we talk to Java and distributed database ninja Denis Magda about his new book, "Just Use Postgres!", which looks at how to wield Postgres for a variety of use cases that an application developer should know.

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! It's February 4th, 2025, as I write this. We are ten days away from Valentine's day, and about a month away from Devnexus. Lots to look forward to, in both the short term and the long term!

Let's dive right into this week's roundup!

• Thanks very much to the San Francisco JUG for letting Spring Boot co-founder Phil Webb and I take a little stroll down memory lane, and revisit at the first 10 whole years of Spring Boot. This was a ton of fun!
• our friend, Vaadin's Marcus Hellberg, has a really crazy example of a Spring Boot and Vaadin application that uses Spring AI MCP to update itself!
• Bellsoft's Catherine Edelveis has a nice video on Dockerizing your Spring Boot applications
• do you ever want an exploding code minigame from within your IntelliJ IDEA? there's a plugin for that!
• …

Hi, Spring and HTML fans! Today I talk to hypermedia enjoyer Carson Gross, creator of the ever popular HTMX library which eschews a ton of the complexity associated with building client side applications.

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another rip-roarin' and exciting installment of This Week in Spring, wherein we look at the amazing week that was in the Spring community. And what a week it's been! In addition to tons of cool tooling and AI related stuff, this week saw the release of the first steps towards Spring Framework 7.0 and Spring Boot 3.5. Spring Framework 7.0, of course, is also the foundation upon which Spring Boot 4.0 will be based. So, that's exciting! Let's dive right in!

• Exciting news from Michael Minella: we're now publishing milestones to Maven Central.
• Spring Data 2025.1.M1 is out!. This is the first milestone in the 2025.1.0 line and has tons of nice new changes. It raises the baseline to Jakarta EE 11 (which includes Hibernate ORM 7 and Hibernate Validator 9) and Kotlin 2.x. This release also finally does away with long-deprecated features like ListenableFuture. Spring Data JPA has seen major changes! Derived queries now use JPQL (not the Criteria API, as before), resulting in much faster performance thanks to Hibernate Query Structure Caching.
• One of my favorite projects, Spring Modulith, has several new releases…

Hi, Spring fans! in this installment I talk to Java developer advocate Billy Korando about the latest and greatest in the amazing Java ecosystem! #java #JavaOne #Oracle

In a recent research publication: Building effective agents, Anthropic shared valuable insights about building effective Large Language Model (LLM) agents. What makes this research particularly interesting is its emphasis on simplicity and composability over complex frameworks. Let's explore how these principles translate into practical implementations using Spring AI.

While the pattern descriptions and diagrams are sourced from Anthropic's original publication, we'll focus on how to implement these patterns using Spring AI's features for model portability and structured output. We recommend…