Hi, Spring fans! In this installment, we'll look at the fantastic Vaadin Flow library, which has recently been updated for Spring Boot 3, and how it can help you be happier.

the code is available, as usual, here

this episode features special guest Marcus Hellberg, VP developer relations from Vaadin, and my colleague Tiffany Jernigan

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Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of A Bootiful Podcast! In this installment, Josh Long (@starbuxman) talks to Spring Batch lead Mahmoud Ben Hassine (@FMBENHASSINE) about the latest and greatest in Spring Batch.

notes

• Submit your talk to SpringOne@Explore, being held August 21-24, 2023, in lovely Las Vegas, Nevada!
• I wrote an e-book looking at how to do AOT processing with Spring Boot 3 and GraalVM. It's free - and a fairly quick read - so get it while you can!
• I streamed this interview with Mahmoud live on my channel - you can watch it there, too, if you prefer
• I wrote a blog looking at some of the amazing Kotlin DSLs in the wide and wonderful world of Spring
• I did a video introducing Spring Boot 3 over on the Jetbrains IntelliJ IDEA Youtube channel
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Kotlin is a beautiful language that makes it trivial to take old Java libraries and make them much more concise, just by virtue of the Kotlin syntax itself. It shines, however, when you write DSLs.

Here's some inside baseball for you: the Spring teams do their level-headed best to be cohesive, to align on core themes, and to make Spring better than the sum of its parts. You see this in every major release: XML namespaces in Spring Framework 2.0. Java Config in 3.0. Conditionals and autoconfiguration when Spring Boot 1.0 first shipped alongside Spring Framework 4.0. Reactive programming with…

Hi, Spring fans! Happy Pi (π) day! And, welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! It's pouring cats and dogs here in San Francisco! The news is talking about atmospheric rivers; I don't know what that means but I don't know that I want to find out. Anyway, all that to say: I'm glad as always for an opportunity to stay indoors and learn. We've got a lot to review this week so let's dive right into it!

• I did a video for our friends at Jetbrains on the IntelliJ IDEA Youtube channel and people seem to like it. Perhaps you will too? Bootiful Spring Boot 3 - YouTube In it, I look at just some of the amazing new features in Spring Boot 3.
• The SpringOne@Explore Calls for Paper is Open!
• A Bootiful Podcast: Google Cloud Java Advocate Aaron Wanjala
• API First Development with Spring Boot and OpenAPI 3.0
• Announcing Spring Cloud GCP 4.0 | Google Cloud Blog
• Build a CRUD Rest API in Java using Spring boot, Hibernate, Postgres, Docker and Docker Compose
• Did you know Java now has records? And that records are amazingly flexible? …

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment, Josh Long (@starbuxman) talks to Google Cloud Java advocate Aaron Wanjala (@ AaronMDubya) about Spring Framework for Google Cloud

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! It's an amazing week, and this week we've got a lot to look at. Let's dive right into it.

• Spring Cloud Function for Azure Function
• Spring Data 2022.0.3 and 2021.2.9 released
• Spring R2DBC for Reactive Relational Databases in Reactive Programming | Gökhan Ayrancıoğlu - Software Engineer, Blogger
• I'll be joining Mark Thomas, legendary contributor to Apache Tomcat, live at 9am here . Join us, bring your questions, etc.
• JRebel has a nice look at the New Features in Spring Framework 6 | JRebel by Perforce
• Authenticating Users with AzureAD in Spring Boot
• Debugging Spring Method Annotations Using Lightrun
• Migrate Application From Spring Boot 2 to Spring Boot 3
• …

Hi Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of a bootiful podcast! in this installment, our pal Oleg Zhurakousky (@z_oleg), lead of Spring Cloud Stream and Spring Cloud Function, rejoins the show to talk about the latest and greatest in stream processing.

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! I'm writing this installment from a hotel room in Dallas, Texas, in the USA. Last night I had the privilege of hanging out with some of my friends from the local Java scene. Today I meet with customers. It's going to be a nice few days indeed.

• Spring Authorization Server 1.0.1 and 0.4.1 available now
• Spring Authorization Server 1.1.0-M1 available now
• Spring Boot 2.7.9 available now
• Spring Boot 3.1.0-M1 available now
• Did you see this amazing video on Spring Framework 6: Infrastructure Themes by Spring cofounder and Spring Framework lead Juergen Hoeller? It's awesome!
• Spring Shell 2.1.7, 3.0.1 and 3.1.0-M1 are now available
• I loved this blog by Apache Tomcat team's Mark Thomas on some of the implications of using Project Loom when building web applications with Project Loom and Apache Tomcat…

Introduction

Project Loom aims to bring "easy-to-use, high-throughput, lightweight concurrency" to the JRE. One feature introduced by Project Loom is virtual threads. In this blog post, we'll be exploring what virtual threads mean for web applications using some simple web applications deployed on Apache Tomcat.

High-throughput / Lightweight

The first experiment was to compare the overhead associated with using Tomcat's standard thread pool to the overhead associated with using a virtual thread (Loom) based executor. The test environment used is detailed at the end of this post. Performance…