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Blending Chat with Rich UIs with Spring AI and MCP Apps

The way humans typically interact with AI is via a chat-style interface such as ChatGPT or Claude Desktop. In fact, the ability to converse with an AI…

Craig Walls·March 18, 2026

This Week in Spring - March 17th, 2026

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another rip-roaring installment of This Week in Spring, which I'm posting ahead of my keynote at the amazing JavaOne 202…

Josh Long·March 17, 2026

A Bootiful Podcast: Spring Messaging Legend Soby Chacko

Josh Long·March 12, 2026

This Week in Spring - March 10th, 2026

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring. As I write this, I am preparing for a trip to Rust, Germany, for one of the…

Josh Long·March 10, 2026

A Bootiful Podcast: Neo4j legend Jennifer Reif

Josh Long·March 05, 2026

This Week in Spring - March 3rd, 2026

Hi Spring fans! Welcome to another rip-roaring installment of This Week in Spring! I'm writing this in an Uber en route to the airport to get to…

Josh Long·March 03, 2026

Moving beyond Strings in Spring Data

If you've worked with data access in Java and especially with Spring Data for a while, then you are familiar with various Query and Update programming…

Mark Paluch·February 27, 2026

A Bootiful Podcast - John Willis, author of 'Rebels of Reason'

Josh Long·February 26, 2026

Optimizations in Spring MVC

Spring Fruits Benchmark Abstract Benchmarks are tricky to do well, and the results are often hard to interpret. This analysis attempts to go beyond a…

Dave Syer·February 25, 2026