Hi Spring fans! Happy New Year! And welcome to another installment of This Year in Spring!

The year that was...

I write this edition from a desk overlooking the beautiful jungle of Martinique, a beautiful island nation in the French Caribbean. I’m sipping some rhum martinique, enjoying the semi-sweltering heat, and thinking about the year that's been 2024. Every year at this time, since 2011, I write this year in spring, an abbreviated look at the year from the rearview mirror.

So many amazing things happened this year. It’s sort of difficult to put my finger on any one thing. But, I shall try…

Hi, Spring fans! (and happy holidays!) in this installment I talk to Intact's Luke Shannon about their use of Spring, developer portals, and so much more.

This Week in Spring - December 17th, 2024

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of a Bootiful Podcast! It's the 17th of December, 2024! And you know what means? The end of the year is nearly upon us! I can't believe it. It's been a very long year indeed, but I'm happy to get on board a flight bound for San Francisco soon and wind down my year in the company of friends and family. I hope you will too. Let's dive right into this week's roundup!

• Spring Data 2024.1.1 and 2024.0.7 released
• the amazing K. Siva Prasad Reddy (SivaLabs) on A Bootiful Podcast
• Spring Framework 6.1.16 and 6.2.1 are available now
• Announcing Spring AI MCP: a Java SDK for the Model Context Protocol
• Introducing Spring AI Amazon Bedrock Nova Integratino via Converse API
• A nice blog by Michael Minella: Spring Support Updates
• this is an interesting comparison of performance and efficiency in a Spring application implemented using the reactive system and a Spring application implemented without reactive, and - importantly - without Java 21's virtual threads…

Hi, Spring fans! In today's installment I talk to industry legend K. Siva Prasad Reddy (@sivalabs). You've probably read one of his blogs. I know I have!

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! As I write this I am in the southern hemisphere (it's summer down here!), in Brisbane, waiting to board a plane for Sydney. It's been a ton of fun!

• I did a video looking at the latest-and-greatest in Spring Framework 6.2 - check it out!
• I did another video looking at the latest-and-greatest in Spring Data 2024.1
• in last week's installment of A Bootiful Podcast, I talk to Spring Security lead Rob Winch
• to learn more about Spring AI's new audio features, check out this blog by Christian Tzolov
• Spring Tools 4.27.0 has been released
• this is an interesting read from Karanbir Singh on Spring Boot 3.4x's OAuth2 client using RestClient
• WireMock now has an official Spring Boot integration
• this video by BellSoft's Catherine Edelveis on using CRaC with Spring Boot…

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment, we'll talk to the amazing Rob Winch, lead of Spring Security 6.4, about the jam-packed new release! #spring #springboot #security #java

Hi, Spring fans! Merry Christmas, Happy Chanukah, Happy Kwanzaa, Happy Holidays, or simply a convivial Tuesday in December to you!

We've got a ton of cool stuff to dive into so let's get goin'!

• Spring AI 1.0.0 M5 Released
• Spring AI MCP 0.2.0 (Milestone) Released
• Spring Modulith 1.3.1, 1.2.7, and 1.1.12 Released
• Spring Boot 3.4.1 Available Now
• Spring Boot 3.3.7 Available Now
• Spring Batch 5.1.3 and 5.2.1 Available Now
• Spring for Apache Pulsar 1.1.7 and 1.2.1 Are Now Available
• Spring for Apache Kafka 3.3.1 and 3.2.6 Are Available Now
• Another delightful installment of the Spring News Roundup over on InfoQ!
• A Cool Sample Application Using Vaadin and Hilla
• Dr. Fabio Niephaus just announced the current status of the upcoming JDWP support for GraalVM Native Images.
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Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! It's the first week of December and I am in the amazing city of Perth, Australia. Perth, for those of you who don't know, is amazing. And well worth the journey. But it is quite the journey! 27 hours, door-to-door, from San Francisco to Perth! Insanity.

I'm super happy to be here, though, talking to amazing folks before I begin my journey from Melbourne, Brisbane, and Sydney, Australia for the epic YOW! conference. It's going to be a ton of fun.

• I love this InfoQ interview with Spring Framework lead Jürgen Hoeller and Spring Framework contributor Sébastien Deleuze
• I also love this article on reactive websockets with Spring
• Extending Spring Data repositories just got easier!
• Huh. Apparently the old SpringSource repositories just got sunsetted. I had no idea we still maintained them.
• In this week's installment of A Bootiful Podcast, I talk to Dave Cramer, PostgreSQL and PostgreSQL JDBC driver contributor extraordinairre
• Spring Cloud 2023.0.4 is now available
• Spring Cloud Stream Applications is now available
• HTTP3 in Reactor!
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Hi, Spring fans! Happy Thanksgiving to my American listeners! and happy Thursday to the everyone! In today's episode I talk to PostgreSQL and PostgreSQL JDBC contributor Dave Cramer. #postgresql #jdbc #sql #java

This Week in Spring - November 26th, 2024

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

Happy Spring Boot 3.4 release month to those who celebrate! And, also, Happy Thanksgiving to those who celebrate! Spring Boot 3.4 brings with it long-anticipated updates to the entire portfolio of Spring projects, and so a lot of the content in this roundup has to do with those releases!

• Starting with an interview with Spring Framework lead Juergen Hoeller and Spring Framework contributor Sébastien Deleuze over on InfoQ
• Reactor legend Violeta Georgieva has a nice post introducing HTTP/3 support in Reactor 2024.0
• I have thoughts on all the amazing new opportunities in Spring Boot 3.4! Like, 50 pages or so worth. So I wrote them all down and published them as a series of blogs looking at Spring Framework, Spring Data, Spring Batch, Spring Integration, Spring Security, Spring Modulith, and Spring AI. Here's the starting blog post, which serves as a sort of index for all the other posts.
  • And here's the post on Spring Framework
  • And here's the post on Spring Data
  • And here's the post on Spring Batch
  • And here's the post on Spring Integration
  • And here's the post on Spring Security
  • And here's the post on Spring Modulith
  • And here's the post on Spring AI
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