Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! It's the second week of 2024, and I am already thinking about 2025! And, a bit more immediatelt than that: the next two weeks. I'll be at both VOXXED DAYS Ticino and VOXXED DAYS CERN, both in Switzerland. If you're about, come out and say hi!

This year is going to be amazing!

And this week's been amazing, too. Let's dive into it.

• in last week's installment of A Bootiful Podcast, I talked to my friend and Kubernetes guru Leigh Capili
• Spring Shell 3.1.7 and 3.2.0 is now available
• Spring Boot Kafka and websockets: a practical approach to real time messaging
• Like Lombok? Me too. But some folks on the Java team will remind you that it's built on intrinsic, unsupported internal bits of the JDK and JRE and that it's doomed to failure without some major changes. Soooo... maybe it's time to start looking for more well-supported alternatives? One such thing that handles a very specific feature of Lombok is Jilt…

Hi, Spring fans! And Happy new year! In this episode I talk to Kubernetes guru Leigh Capili, who helps us ring in the new year!

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I'm happy to announce that Spring Shell 3.1.7 and 3.2.0 has been released and are now available from Maven Central.

Please see the release notes 3.1.7 and release notes 3.2.0 for more details.

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

How can you help?

Project Page | GitHub | Issues | Documentation

Hi, Spring fans! Happy New Year! As we step into 2024, full of hope and enthusiasm, welcome to the first installment of This Week in Spring. It's a time for new beginnings and resolutions, and what better way to start than by exploring the ever-evolving world of Spring? I hope your new year celebrations were both fun and memorable, marking the start of a year filled with learning, growth, and innovation in our field.

• This blog looks at the fantastic Spring Modulith project and how it can be used to improve modular applications with Spring.
• The post we just looked at eventually landed on Reddit and prompted a great question about why and how Spring Modulith's event bus helps promote modularity, to which Spring Modulith lead Oliver Drotbohm wrote a must-read reply.
• Speaking of Spring Modulith, to celebrate the new year, I looked at Spring's ApplicationEvent subsystem in this installment of Spring Tips.
• An interesting read on the Data Transfer Object pattern and different ways - manual DTO creation, ModelMapper, and Lombok - to create them in a Spring Boot application…

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment, Josh Long talks to longtime Spring community legend and Trifork CTO Joris Kuipers. Happy new year!

Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! It's December 26th, 2023, and we're staring down the new year! And you know what that means, right? It's time for our annual roundup, looking at all the latest and greatest in the wild and wonderful world of Springdom. This is This Year in Spring. So, here are some of the biggest themes in the year 2023, and then we'll get to our regularly scheduled roundup.

Artificial Intelligence (AI)

You've no doubt heard all about the incredible leapfrogging advancements being made in the area of artificial intelligence! It's everywhere! Even before…

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment, I talk to legendary Cloud Native Whitney Lee about cloud infrastructure, that one trick every dev must know, her new operations-centric gameshow, and more. Happy holidays to y'all!

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I'm happy to announce that Spring Boot 3.1.7 has been released and is now available from Maven Central.

This release includes 39 bug fixes, documentation improvements, and dependency upgrades. Thanks to all those who have contributed with issue reports and pull requests.

How can you help?

If you're interested in helping out, check out the "ideal for contribution" tag in the issue repository. If you have general questions, please ask on stackoverflow.com using the spring-boot tag or chat with the community on Gitter.

Project Page | GitHub | Issues | Documentation | Stack Overflow | …

On behalf of the community I am happy to announce Spring Modulith 1.0.4 and 1.1.1. The releases primarily contain bug fixes and dependency upgrades to the latest Spring Boot versions.

Find more information in the corresponding change logs of 1.0.4 and 1.1.1.

Happy holidays!