Jetbrains Developer Advocate Marit van Dijk on reading code, IntelliJ IDEA, and more.

The Spring Framework team has been busy reviewing the issue tracker in anger and reducing the number of opened issues. This was long overdue, with a number of issues being invalid or superseded in the meantime. This helped the team focusing on a more manageable amount of issues and we used the opportunity to look at long standing issues that we haven’t had the time to address yet.

In this post, I’d like to walk you through a collection of those relatively small issues, sometimes highly voted, that are finally available in this milestone.

Support for escaping property placeholders

Property placeholders are a way to replace a property from the environment in an arbitrary String. Assuming that customer.name is set to "John Smith" in the Environment…

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment, I look at the excellent Spring Expression Language, an embedded language for resolving simple expressions that is built right into the Spring Framework.

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! I'm in Las Vegas, NV, at the moment, preparing for my part in the huuuuuge Google Cloud Next keynote. I'm so excited! And then it's off to the amazing and glorious Devnexus event! If you're at either event, please say Hi!.

• Full Line Code Completion In Jetbrains Ides: All You Need To Know
• WireMock 3.5.2 Released
• A nice article on Tracing in Spring Boot 3
• I know I've probably mentioned this, but I really dig this post: How Spring and Java Shaped Internal Developer Platforms
• In last week's installment of A Bootiful Podcast, I talked to Netflix's Paul Bakker and Kavitha Srinivasan on scaling Spring Boot and Spring GraphQL at Netflix
• Spring Functions Catalog 5.0.0.M1 and Spring Cloud Stream Applications 2024.0.0.m1 Available
• In last week's installment of Spring Tips, I look the new and novel Java 22!
• Introducing Spring AI, …

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment, I'm thrilled to be joined by Netflix's Paul Bakker and Kavitha Srinivasan, who explain how they're integrating and evolving Spring for GraphQL in their own GraphQL stack and how they're managing, growing, and evolving thousands of services written in Spring Boot

Welcome, welcome, welcome, to another installment of This Week in Spring! You know, we've come a long way since you and I last spoke. It's April already! A new month! How bizarre. And, with the dawning of a new month, we're also more than 25% through this year! I sure hope you're paying attention. That little tidbit's blowing my mind!

Yesterday, by the way, was the first of April, and the tenth birthday of the first generally available 1.0 version of Spring Boot, released on the 1st of April, 2024. Happy birthday, Spring Boot!

Tomorrow, by the way, I'll have a brand new not-to-be-missed video on Java 22 over on our humble YouTube channel, do not miss that…

Hi, Spring fana! In this installment, I look at the amazing, just-released, Java 22!

Hi, Spring fans! In this episode I'm joined by Java luminaries and Apress' Beginning Spring 6 authors Joseph Ottinger and Andrew Lombardi

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring!

• Sam Brannen shares some good news: a null-safe Index operator for the Spring Expression Language (SpEL) is coming to Spring Framework 6.2!
• This is interesting, and a nice application of AI (do I even need to spell out "artificial intelligence" anymore?): localize applications with Spring AI
• this is a neat guide by community member Wim Deblauwe over on InfoQ: A Practical Guide to Building an API Back End with Spring Boot - version 2
• James Ward, founder of the WebJars project and a legend in his own right, invites folks to contribute feedback on the new webjars-locator-lite module, created by the…