Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! Last week I was in Antwerp, Belgium, for the amazing Devoxx Belgium event, and this week I've been in Amsterdam for the SpringOne Tour Amsterdam stop and - in the middle of the SpringOne Tour Amsterdam event - I dipped out to join my friend and fellow Java Champion Trustin Lee (@trustin) (he created Netty! the guy's a living legend!) for a discussion and ask-me-anything at the local Amsterdam Java User Group, hosted by fellow Java Champion and local Geertjan Wielenga (@GeertjanW). It was a lovely day indeed across the two…

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment, we'll talk to Spring Data legend Greg Turnquist (@gregturn) about the incredible next-level optimizations and query enhancements, the work in general, and so much more. Recorded live at SpringOne 2023 in Las Vegas!

Other parts in this blog series

Part 1: Introduction to Transactions in Spring Cloud Stream Kafka Applications

Part 2: Producer Initiated Transactions in Spring Cloud Stream Kafka Applications

In the previous part of this blog series, we saw the basics of transaction management, primarily when using producer-initiated Spring Cloud Stream Kafka applications. In that discussion, we also briefly saw how a Spring Cloud Stream Kafka consumer application could consume records produced transactionally with proper isolation levels. When you synchronize with external transaction managers, such as one…

Spring Shell 2.1.13, 3.0.8 and 3.1.4 are now available

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I'm happy to announce that Spring Shell 2.1.13, 3.0.8 and 3.1.4 has been released and are now available from Maven Central.

Please see the release notes 2.1.13, release notes 3.0.8 and release notes 3.1.4 for more details.

Thanks to all those who have contributed with issue reports and pull requests.

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Hi Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! How're you doin'? I've just flown in from Singapore - where I was keynoting and presenting at SpringOne Singapore - and am now in Antwerp, Belgium for the deliriously fun Devoxx Belgium show. I've missed this show, and it's a true pleasure to be back here! Next week, I'll be in Amsterdam, just next door, for the SpringOne Tour Amsterdam. If you're there, come out and say hi!

We've got a lot of stuff to look at this morning, so let's dive right into it.

• A Bootiful Podcast: Spring AI lead Dr. Mark Pollack
• Building a ChatGPT clone with Spring Boot, LangChain, and React in 20 minutes
• Dockerize Your Spring Boot App Like a Pro
• Hah. This is fun! Generate Dynamic Websites using ChatGPT and Spring AI
• a new release of GitHub - toedter/spring-hateoas-jsonapi: A JSON:API media type implementation for Spring HATEOAS
• How To Log Outgoing HTTP Requests with Spring Rest Client and Spring Boot 3
• Introduction to Transactions in Spring Cloud Stream Kafka Applications
• Spring Cloud 2023.0.0-M2 (aka Leyton) has been released
• …

On behalf of the community, I am pleased to announce that the Milestone 2 (M2) of the Spring Cloud 2023.0 Release Train is available today. The release can be found in Spring Milestone repository. You can check out the 2023.0 release notes for more information.

Notable Changes in the 2023.0.0-M2 Release Train

In this milestone, we have migrated the documentation of all the Spring Cloud projects to Antora.

See all issues and pull requests here.

Spring Cloud Commons

• Refresh Scope on restart - a feature tailored to allow adapting to environment changes on JVM Checkpoint-Restart (PR 1266)

Spring…

Other parts in this blog series

Part 1: Introduction to Transactions in Spring Cloud Stream Kafka Applications

This article is part 2 of the blog series in which we look at transactions in detail with Spring Cloud Stream and Apache Kafka. We saw a general introduction to transactions in the previous part, touching on the fundamental ideas. In this part of the blog series, we get to the metal by seeing a few implementation details and their practical aspects.

In this article, we largely stay on the producer's side to understand how transactions work with Spring Cloud Stream and Apache Kafka.

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Hi, Spring fans! In this episode I talk to Dr. Mark Pollack, lead of the new Spring AI project. This episode was recorded live at SpringOne at VMware Explore 2023, in Las Vegas.

We are starting a new blog series that focuses on working with transactions in Spring Cloud Stream Kafka applications. This blog series covers many low-level details of writing transactional applications with Spring Cloud Stream and Apache Kafka. By the end of this blog series, we hope to give you enough information about writing transactional Spring Cloud Stream Kafka applications for various business use cases.

Basic Building Blocks

The foundational support for transactions in Spring Cloud Stream Kafka applications primarily comes from Apache Kafka itself and the Spring for Apache Kafka…