Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! I'm in Frankfurt, awaiting my flight to the Java-tastic Javazone 2025 event where I'll be joined by the legendary James Ward to deliver an AI-focused look at the latest-and-greatest in Spring! And I'm still recovering from the delirious deluge that was SpringOne 2025! So much to do, and so little time in which to do it. Oh well let's dive right into it!

• in last week's installment of A Bootiful Podcast, I talked to JobRunr founder Ronald Dehuysser
• As always, I'm loving Rod Johnson's videos looking at comparing how to build AI agents with Spring AI-powered Embabel against other frameworks, and you should too
• I love this look at the MCP protocol by our friend Siva
• what is the best embedded web server for Spring Boot
• this is really cool - a a mechanism to load configuration into Spring Boot using Dotenvx
• I like this look at some of the amazing essential utility classes
• a great thread looking at some of the latest-and-greatest in Spring Boot 4 and Spring Framework 6 by Loiane Groner
• this Spring Boot tutorial was recently updated and that makes me happy
• Andrew Fawcett gave a nice talk looking at building 12-factor applications with Spring Boot at Spring I/O 2025.
• I'm now watching this video on how to "stream millions of responses instantly"