Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! And, would you believe it, I'm writing this at SpringOne 2023, in sunny Las Vegas, Nevada. This is the first in-person SpringOne since 2019, and I'm so, so, so glad to be here!

We've got a ton of things to get into this week, let's dive right into it!

• This year we're celebrating twenty (20!) years since the early builds of Spring Framework 1.0, and ten (10!!) years since the early builds of Spring Boot 1.0. Did you see this amazing easter-egg, The History of Spring?? It's amazing!
• We announced a new project called Spring AI that provides a convenient abstraction to allow developers to work with Large Language Models like Azure OpenAI and regular OpenAI, and - hopefully - more in the future. I did a live stream with its founder, Dr. Mark Pollack, here, and we did a demo you can look at here
• Spring Authorization Server 1.1.2 available now
• …

In Spring Security 5, we saw many developments in the OAuth2 story with the introduction of OAuth2 Resource Server and OAuth2 Client into the framework.

Today, it is quite convenient to develop applications that are secured by OAuth2 using the features available in OAuth2 Resource Server. Additionally, we can take advantage OAuth2 Client features to integrate with OAuth 2.0 and OpenID Connect 1.0 providers, making it possible to authenticate users with OAuth2 Login and/or make protected requests to applications secured by OAuth2.

However, the OAuth2 landscape is very complex, and customization…

HI, Spring fans! In this installment Josh Long talks to R2DBC Proxy creator Tadaya Tsuyukubo, (@ttddyy), creator of R2DBC Proxy and others

SpringOne, the first in-person SpringOne since the pandemic! - is next week!! I'm so excited I could spit. And I did spit. And then, I asked ChatGPT for some help writing a poem, and it did not disappoint!

T'was a week before SpringOne, in Las Vegas so grand, Where devs from all corners would soon take a stand. The stages were set by the Strip with such care, In hopes that Spring's legacy soon would be there.

For twenty years past, since Spring first had begun, In Java it started, its triumphs were won. With Boot at its heart and Kubernetes by side, It scaled the vast clouds, on containers it…

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment, my first since I returned from two blistering hot but super fun months in Asia, I talk to Spring Cloud cofounder and lead Spencer Gibb (@SpencerBGibb) about the new Servlet-friendly Spring Cloud Gateway project.

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! I'm baaaaack in the USA for the first time in more than two months, and it feels great to be home!

I just concluded a tour of Asia, visiting

• Taipei, Taiwan
• Sydney, and the Blue Mountains, in Australia
• Seoul, S. Korea
• Singapore
• Jakarta and Bali, Indonesia
• Kuala Lumpur, Bali, and Penang, Malaysia
• Tokyo, Japan

i did public appearances in most of these cities, and it was a lot of fun. Thank you everyone that came out, and I can't wait to see you again soon!

I feel like I time-traveled. You remember during lockdown there was…

Hi, Spring fans! I just crossed 13 years on the Spring team! I just got to spend a lovely day in the presence of one of my heroes and friends, UL Systems founder and chairman, Shigeru Urushibara-san (@ulsystems), here in Tokyo, Japan, and in this episode, we sort of flip the script. We had a brief discussion where he interviewed me. If you want a great discussion where there's a ton to learn... then you might want to check out this episode where I interviewed him in 2021! Otherwise, listen on. Thank you, Urushibara-san! And thank you, everyone. Here's to another amazing 13 years!

Hi, Spring fans!

Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! Can you believe it's already August 1, 2023??? Me either.

As I write this, I'm preparing some of my contributions for SpringOne at VMWare Explore 2023, happening next month in lovely Las Vegas, NV. Have you registered yet?

I'm working at the VMWare Tokyo office as I write this; I'm here for meetings and a JJUG appearance. My friends, there's a ton to get done today, so let's dive right into it.

• A Bootiful Podcast: Spring team legend Dr. David Syer on view rendering technologies, the latest-and-greatest, SpringOne 2023, and more
• The best way to use Testcontainers from your Spring Boot tests! ? info.michael-simons.eu
• Spring Cloud Kilburn (2022.0.4) is now available](https://spring.io/blog/2023/07/28/)
• Spring Shell 2.1.12, 3.0.7 and 3.1.3 are now available
• Hi Spring fans! I was lucky enough to do a (mostly virtual) Japanese Java User Group appearance last night here in the land of the rising sun, Tokyo, Japan! You can watch it here .
• Baeldung's updated their coverage of Spring Framework 6 and Spring Boot 3, too…

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment Josh Long talks to the legendary Dr. David Syer about view rendering technologies, SpringOne, and more.

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