This Week in Spring - April 9th, 2024

Engineering | Josh Long | April 09, 2024 | ...

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! I'm in Las Vegas, NV, at the moment, preparing for my part in the huuuuuge Google Cloud Next keynote. I'm so excited! And then it's off to the amazing and glorious Devnexus event! If you're at either event, please say Hi!.

This Week in Spring - April 2nd, 2024

Engineering | Josh Long | April 03, 2024 | ...

Welcome, welcome, welcome, to another installment of This Week in Spring! You know, we've come a long way since you and I last spoke. It's April already! A new month! How bizarre. And, with the dawning of a new month, we're also more than 25% through this year! I sure hope you're paying attention. That little tidbit's blowing my mind!

Yesterday, by the way, was the first of April, and the tenth birthday of the first generally available 1.0 version of Spring Boot, released on the 1st of April, 2024. Happy birthday, Spring Boot!

Tomorrow, by the way, I'll have a brand new not-to-be-missed video on Java 22 over on our humble YouTube channel, do not miss that

This Week in Spring - March 26th, 2024

Engineering | Josh Long | March 26, 2024 | ...

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring!

Reflectionless Templates With Spring

Engineering | Dave Syer | March 22, 2024 | ...

A few Java libraries have shown up recently that use text templates, but compile to Java classes at build time. They can thus claim to some extent to be "reflection free". Together with potential benefits of runtime performance, they promise to be easy to use and integrate with GraalVM native image compilation, so they are quite interesting for people just getting started with that stack in Spring Boot 3.x. We take a look at a selection of libraries (JStachio, Rocker, JTE and ManTL) and how to get them running.

The source code for the samples is in GitHub and each template engine has its own…

This Week in Spring - March 19th, 2024

Engineering | Josh Long | March 19, 2024 | ...

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