hi, Spring fans! In this installment I have the privilege of talking to JetBrains legend Marco Behler

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…

Hi, Spring (and Java) fans! In this episode I am beyond delighted to talk Java developer advocate and longtime friend of the show Billy Korando about the latest-and-greatest in the Java ecosystem.

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…

Hi, Spring and IntelliJ IDEA fans! This week we celebrate 25 years of Jetbrains IntelliJ IDEA, and who better to talk to us about its evolution than Dmitry Jemerov, whose been a contributor and developer for the project since 2003!

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…

Hi, Spring fans! This week we catch up with the observably awesome Jonatan Ivanov on how to measure all the things with Micrometer

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…

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment, I have the privilege of sitting down and talking to the legendary Rob Winch, lead of Spring Security, Spring Session, and the amazing Testjars project.

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…