Hi, Spring (and Java) fans! In this episode I am beyond delighted to talk Java developer advocate and longtime friend of the show Billy Korando about the latest-and-greatest in the Java ecosystem.
Spring Cloud 2025.0.0 is incompatible with Spring Boot 4.0.1 and later 4.0.x releases due to changes in Spring Boot. This Spring Cloud release introduces compatibility with Spring Boot 4.0.1 and later 4.0.x release for the 2025.1.x Spring Cloud release train.
Spring Cloud Kubernetes
New leader election implementations for the Kubernetes Java Client (#2107) and Fabric8 Client (#2108)
The Agent2Agent (A2A) Protocol is an open standard for seamless AI agent communication. It enables agents to discover capabilities, exchange messages, and coordinate workflows across platforms—regardless of their implementation.
Spring AI A2A integrates the A2A Java SDK with Spring AI through Spring Boot autoconfiguration. It seamlessly connects the A2A protocol with Spring AI's ChatClient and tools, enabling you to expose your agents as A2A servers.
In this blog, we show how using Spring AI, we can integrate with Anthropic's Native Skills API for Cloud-Based Document Generation and Custom Skills.
Spring AI adds support for Anthropic's Agent Skills — modular capabilities that let Claude generate actual files rather than text descriptions. With Skills enabled, Claude produces real Excel spreadsheets, PowerPoint presentations, Word documents, and PDFs that you can download and use directly.
This post covers how Spring AI integrates with Skills, including both pre-built Skills and Custom Skills for organization-specific document generation.
Instead of one generalist agent doing everything, delegate to specialized agents. This keeps context windows focused—preventing the clutter that degrades performance.
Task tool, part of the spring-ai-agent-utils toolkit, is a portable, model-agnostic Spring AI implementation inspired by Claude Code's subagents. It enables hierarchical agent architectures where specialized subagents handle focused tasks in dedicated context windows, returning only essential results to the parent. Beyond Claude's markdown-based format, the architecture is extensible—supporting A2A and other agentic protocols…
Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! As I write this, I cannot believe we're nearly at the end of the month! Time sure flies.
Have you heard of WiseMapping? It's a fully open-source mind-mapping software suite with a web and desktop client and a backend written in Spring Boot. Neat…
On behalf of the Spring AI team, I'm happy to announce that Spring AI 2.0.0-M2 is now available from Maven Central.
Release Summary
This release includes 94 changes: 36 improvements, 16 bug fixes, 38 documentation updates, and 4 dependency upgrades.
Thanks to all contributors.
Null Safety
Spring AI 2.0 will join the Spring Portfolio effort to provide a null-safe API, as documented in this original blog post. What this means is that the whole Spring AI codebase needs to be reviewed and converted to JSpecify, which is no small endeavor!
The benefits are a better documented API but also one we can trust because thanks to JSpecify and NullAway, all of this is now enforced at compile time. Moreover, for Kotlin users, this translates to true nullable…
On behalf of the communit I am happy to announce the availablity of Spring Modulith 2.1 M1, 2.0.2, and 1.4.7. The bug fix releases primarily ship the usual depenency upgrades. The first milestone of 2.1 upgrades to Boot 4.1's first milestone and includes a few minor additions accumulated after the 2.0 GA release.
Hi, Spring and IntelliJ IDEA fans! This week we celebrate 25 years of Jetbrains IntelliJ IDEA, and who better to talk to us about its evolution than Dmitry Jemerov, whose been a contributor and developer for the project since 2003!
On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I'm happy to announce that Spring Boot 3.5.10 has been released and is now available from Maven Central.