Josh Long

Josh Long

Josh (@starbuxman) is the Spring Developer Advocate at Pivotal and a Java Champion. He's host of "A Bootiful Podcast" (https://soundcloud.com/a-bootiful-podcast), host of the "Spring Tips Videos" (http://bit.ly/spring-tips-playlist), co-author of 6+ books (http://joshlong.com/books.html), and instructor on 8+ Livelessons Training Videos (http://joshlong.com/livelessons.html)

Blog posts by Josh Long

This Week in Spring - July 1st, 2025

Engineering | July 01, 2025 | ...

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! It's July!!

This week, I'm on PTO, and as always, I'm looking for good reading material on the plane ride over for my holiday. Thank goodness for the ever-vibrant and awesome Spring community; there's tons of stuff to dive into!

I may be going on a little holiday, but the next few months are going to be a ton of fun, and I'm looking forward to it. Did you know that SpringOne, in lovely Las Vegas, is just a few months away? Get your tickets now!

This Week in Spring - June 24th, 2025

Engineering | June 24, 2025 | ...

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! We're in the middle of June already! And you know what that means? Warm weather, fun, and of course: the amazing SpringOne event in lovely Las Vegas, NV!

The content catalog went live today!

I'll be there doing, among other things, a session on Spring AI and another on Spring Security, and I'll be part of the keynote. Don't miss this! It's going to be amazing. Do not miss this extra large event - a gathering of the Spring ecosystem for the ages.

Anyway, without further ado, let's dive into today's roundup!

This Week in Spring - June 17th, 2025

Engineering | June 17, 2025 | ...

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! We're in the middle of June already! And you know what that means? Warm weather, fun, and of course: the amazing SpringOne event in lovely Las Vegas, NV!

The content catalog went live today!

I'll be there doing, among other things, a session on Spring AI and another on Spring Security. It's going to be amazing. Do not miss this extra large event - a gathering of the Spring ecosystem for the ages.

Anyway, without further ado, let's dive into today's roundup!

This Week in Spring - June 10th, 2025

Engineering | June 10, 2025 | ...

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! It's been a busy week indeed since we last spoke! Last week I was in Amsterdam for the IntelliJ IDEA conference and for the JSpring event in Utrecht. Now, I'm in Tokyo, Japan, for the JJUG Spring 2025 event. Importantly: both of these are Java events that take place on or around the spring season in the northern hemisphere, and are not (just?) about Spring Framework. Funnily enough, though, I did get a kick out of seeing this article of Spring creator Rod Johnson presenting at JSpring in Utrecth 20 years ago!. The more…

This Week in Spring - June 3rd, 2025

Engineering | June 03, 2025 | ...

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! I just finished recording my session with IntelliJ IDEA project lead Aleksey Stukalov about all the amazing features coming to IntelliJ IDEA to better support Java, Kotlin, and Spring developers.

It went off without a hitch (even though we're using a few early features), and I want to thank the Jetbrains team for the chance to participate.

Tomorrow, I speak at the amazing JSpring conference (sibling conference to the amazing JFall conference), too.

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