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 - January 6th, 2026

Engineering | January 06, 2026 | ...
Hi, Spring fans, to the first installment of This Week in Spring in the new year and, roughly, the fifteenth anniversary edition of this series! I've been writing these blogs since the first week of January of 2011, and I am proud to say that I haven't (so far) missed a single week! I've always published it on Tuesday (with some fuzziness around whose Tuesday, as I tend to bounce around the globe a fair bit). I want to thank, as I always do, Spring cofounder Keith Donald for this wonderful and simple idea. He dropped it in my lap and said to give it a shot, and I've never looked back. He's no…

This Year in Spring – December 30th, 2025

Engineering | December 30, 2025 | ...
Hi, Spring fans! Can you believe it? It's already the 30th of December! I celebrated Christmas with my family in Los Angeles, then we jumped on a flight headed for Southeast Asia to ring in the New Year with more friends and family. I'm sitting at a café in the sweltering city of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia as I write this - looking back fondly at the last week of, and the entire year of, 2025. That's right! It's time for my yearly tradition of retroactive year-end navel‑gazing and analysis; it's time for This Year in Spring, where we review the good, the great, and the amazing: the top five best…

This Week in Spring – December 23rd, 2025

Engineering | December 23, 2025 | ...
Happy holidays, everyone! The year may be winding down, but the Spring ecosystem continues unabated. We’re now a few weeks past the generational Spring Boot 4.0 release in November, and there have been tons of releases (and patches) since then. There’s also equal excitement reflected in posts from the community, so we’ve got a lot to dig into this week. So, without further ado… In last week’s installment of A Bootiful Podcast, I talked to the legendary Spring cofounder Juergen Hoeller https://spring.io/blog/2025/12/18/a-bootiful-podcast-juergen-hoeller Next-level Kotlin support in Spring Boot…

This Week in Spring – December 16th, 2025

Engineering | December 16, 2025 | ...
Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! And what a week it’s been! We’ve got around nine shopping days ’til Christmas, and the New Year is almost here! Things are moving so quickly and the Spring community is no exception! Let's dive into this week's wonderful roundup! This is a super interesting application of a design pattern with Spring AI’s dynamic tool selection, described by Christian Tzolov. Spring Tools 5.0 released. Spring Shell 4.0.0-M2 is out! In last week’s installment of A Bootiful Podcast, I talked to Spring legend Rossen Stoyanchev about API…

This Week in Spring - December 9th, 2025

Engineering | December 09, 2025 | ...
Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! I am in lovely New Jersey, the Garden State, as I write this and I spent most of the last week in New Orleans. It's been a busy week in the Spring community and beyond and so you know what that means? There's a ton of stuff to look into! Let's dive right into it! Spring gRPC 1.0.0 is now GA! Huzzah! Hooray! Want to learn more about the new release direct from the Spring team? Join them, live, for this webinar on the 11th. Good news, everybody, Spring Shell 4.0.0-M2 is available now!. Spring AI 1.1.1 is available now. I…

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