Spring Tips: Spring AI Redux

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment, brought to you with permission from the amazing Spring I/O 2024 conference event in Barcelona, Spain, I join Spring AI engineer Christian Tzolov for a keynote introducing some of the amazing new features in Spring AI. artificialintelligence ai springboot java...

This Week in Spring - June 4th, 2024

Hi, Spring fans, from London! I'm in this fabulous country doing my level-headed best to refrain from dooing Mr. Bean bits, because, honestly, if I - an avid and prolific fan of Spring and its many beans - can't be "Mr. Bean," then I'm glad Rowan Atkinson is! I'm here for a SpringOne Tour event,...

This Week in Spring - May 14th, 2024

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This week's highlights in the Spring ecosystem emphasize the ongoing advancements and applications of Spring AI. The discussions range from exploring the impressive VectorStore abstraction and enhanced structured output suppo...

Spring AI - Structured Output

UPDATE: 04.06.2024 Adde snippets for using structured output with the new, fluent ChatClient API . UPDATE: 17.05.2024 Generic Types support for BeanOutputConverter added. Science works with chunks and bits and pieces of things with the continuity presumed, and Art works only with the continuities...

This Week in Spring - May 7th, 2024

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another amazing installment of This Week in Spring! I'm in bellisima Rome, Italy, where I've just spent time in some fun meetings, and now I'm off to lovely London, UK, for Devoxx UK 2024. It's going to be amazing. If you're there, don't hesitate to say hi! I've got to...

Spring Tips: Vector Databases with Spring AI

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment, we look at the amazing support for vector databases in Spring AI...

This Week in Spring - Tuesday, April 23rd, 2024

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! We've had a really busy, wonderful week, as always, so let's dive right into it! We want you! ...to submit a talk to SpringOne 2024, in sunny Las Vegas! Hurry, the CFP closes May 3rd! Spring Shell 3.1.11, 3.2.4, and 3.3.0-m1...

This Week in Spring - April 9th, 2024

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! I'm in Las Vegas, NV, at the moment, preparing for my part in the huuuuuge Google Cloud Next keynote. I'm so excited! And then it's off to the amazing and glorious Devnexus event! If you're at either event, please say Hi!. Fu...

This Week in Spring - April 2nd, 2024

Welcome, welcome, welcome, to another installment of This Week in Spring! You know, we've come a long way since you and I last spoke. It's April already! A new month! How bizarre. And, with the dawning of a new month, we're also more than 25% through this year! I sure hope you're paying attention...

This Week in Spring - March 26th, 2024

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! Sam Brannen shares some good news: a null-safe Index operator for the Spring Expression Language SpEL is coming to Spring Framework 6.2! This is interesting, and a nice application of AI do I even need to spell out "artificia...

This Week in Spring - March 12th, 2024

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! And what a week it's going to be! Do this first: we need your help! Please answer some questions in our State of Spring survey! Join me for a look at the latest-and-greatest, chronicling how I got started with Spring Boot in...

Function Calling in Java and Spring AI using the latest Mistral AI API

UPDATE: As of March 13, 2024, Mistral AI has integrated support for parallel function calling into their large model, a feature that was absent at the time of this blog's initial publication. Mistral AI, a leading developer of open-source large language models, unveiled the addition of Function...

This Week in Spring - March 5th, 2024

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another exciting roundup of This Week in Spring! I expect many of you are reading this for the first time, especially with Facebook and Instagram being down. People have been exploring all the other lesser-known corners of the web, looking for their daily "doom scroll....

This Week in Spring - February 27th, 2024

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring wherein we explore the latest-and-greatest in the wonderful world of Springdom. This week's going to be a very good one, so let's dive right into it! good news everyone! Spring Boot's been updated! 3.3.0-M2, 3.2.3, and 3.1.9 a...

This Week in Spring - February 20th, 2024

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! How are you this fine 20th of February, 2024? I'm doing alright on this rainy 20th of Feburary here in San Francisco, and I hope you are too! We've got a ton of things to get into this week so let's dive right into it! Have y...

This Week in Spring - February 14th, 2024

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! Friends, tomorrow is Valentine's day, and I love Spring. So, it's a very exciting thing indeed to be able to share this week's jam-packed roundup. Let's dive right into it! Spring Tools 4.21.1 is now available In the latest...

Spring Tips: Spring AI

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment we'll look at the new Spring AI project, which provides convenient integrations with LLMs like the one behind ChatGPT and tools to support the RAG retrieval augmented generation pipeline. ai springboot artificialintelligence java graalvm cloud java21 postgresq...

This Week in Spring - February 6th

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of the rip-roarin' adventure that is This Week in Spring! We've got a lot to look at, as usual, so let's dive right into it! in last week's installment of A Bootiful Podcast, I talked to Gunnar Morling, who created the 1BRC 1 Billion Row Challenge...

This Week in Spring - January 9th, 2024

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, com...

This Year in Spring - 2023

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...