Josh Long

Josh Long

Josh (@starbuxman) is the Spring Developer Advocate at Pivotal and a Java Champion. He's host of "A Bootiful Podcast" (https://soundcloud.com/a-bootiful-podcast), host of the "Spring Tips Videos" (http://bit.ly/spring-tips-playlist), co-author of 6+ books (http://joshlong.com/books.html), and instructor on 8+ Livelessons Training Videos (http://joshlong.com/livelessons.html)

Recent Blog posts by Josh Long

This Week in Spring - February 10th, 2026

Engineering | February 10, 2026 | ...
Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! It's February 10th, 2026, as I write this from lovely London, UK. I spoke at the local Java User Group here last night, had a wonderful time. Tomorrow, I'm going home. It's been fun, but it's time to conclude this roller coaster whirlwind tour of Toronto, Canada; Helsinki, Finland; Stockholm, Sweden; Istanbul, Turkey; and London, UK. I've been busy, but as usual, the community's been busier! There's a ton to get into so let's dive right into it! I did a video on how to build production-worthy AI systems and services with…

This Week in Spring - February 3rd, 2026

Engineering | February 03, 2026 | ...
Hi, Spring fans! This week I'm in northern Europe. I went on the Vaadin cruise from Finland to Sweden, gave a talk on a boat, then arrived in Stockholm in time for the amazing JFokus 2026 event where I had the privilege yesterday of doing a deep dive with my pal James Ward on Spring AI and agentic patterns (some of which we also look at in this very roundup). Later today, I'm doing a talk introducing the new Spring Boot 4 support. Busy day, so let's dive right into this roundup! Spring gRPC 1.0.2 available now want your AI agents to be more intelligent? Check out this amazing new blog from the…

This Week in Spring - January 27th, 2026

Engineering | January 27, 2026 | ...
Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! As I write this, I cannot believe we're nearly at the end of the month! Time sure flies. Spring AI 2.0.0-M2 is available now Spring Modulith 2.1 M1, 2.0.2, and 1.4.7 released In last week's installment of A Bootiful Podcast, I talked to JetBrains legend Dmitry Jemerov Spring Boot 3.5.10 is available now Spring Boot 4.0.2 is available now Spring Boot 4.1.0-M1 is available now Spring Batch 6.0.2 available now Spring Integration 7.1.0-M1 is available now Spring AI Agentic Patterns (pt. 3): Why Your AI Agent Forgets Tasks (and…

This Week in Spring - January 20th, 2026

Engineering | January 20, 2026 | ...
Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! It's already the 20th of January and we are off on yet another rip roarin' adventure as we look at the week that has been... this week in Spring! even more good stuff from Spring AI team legend Christian Tsolov, this one on Spring AI agentic patterns (part 2!): AskUserQuestionTool. This blog is about agents that clarify before acting Spring Security 7.1.0M1 is available now Spring Data 2025.1.2 and 2025.0.8 released Spring Framework 7.0.3 is available now in last week's installment of A Bootiful Podcast, I talked to…

This Week in Spring - January 13th, 2026

Engineering | January 13, 2026 | ...
Hi, Spring fans, and welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! It's the 13th of January, 2026, and it's been quite the week indeed! Let's dive right into it! Nobody, and I mean nobody, asked. So I put together a video on how to use Spring WS to build SOAP-based services in 2026. Hey, SOAP may be legacy but the legacy endures in a lot of places and there's no reason you can't modernize those systems and services to use Spring Boot 4, GraalVM, and OAuth, as I show in this video. In last week's installment of A Bootiful Podcast, I talked to Spring Security lead Rob Winch on Spring…

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