This Week in Spring - August 27th, 2024 - SpringOne 2024 edition

Hi, Spring fans, from the expo hall of SpringOne at VMware Explore 2024! There's a livestream of some of the key talks - register and watch for free now at SpringOne.io. Right now I'm hanging out at the expo hall manning a booth and doing demos to the hoardes of people streaming by, but I'll be...

Spring AI with NVIDIA LLM API

Spring AI now supports NVIDIA's Large Language Model API, offering integration with a wide range of models. By leveraging NVIDIA's OpenAI-compatible API, Spring AI allows developers to use NVIDIA's LLMs through the familiar Spring AI API. We'll explore how to configure and use the Spring AI OpenA...

This Week in Spring - August 13th, 2024

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! It's Tuesday and work is well underway to prepare for the huge SpringOne event in Las Vegas in just a few short week's time! I'm elated! So, let's get this roundup on the road so I can get back to the preparation frenzy...

Spring AI Embraces OpenAI's Structured Outputs: Enhancing JSON Response Reliability

OpenAI recently introduced a powerful feature called Structured Outputs, which ensures that AI-generated responses adhere strictly to a predefined JSON schema. This feature significantly improves the reliability and usability of AI-generated content in real-world applications. Today, we're excite...

Spring AI with Groq - a blazingly fast AI inference engine

Faster information processing not only informs - it transforms how we perceive and innovate. Spring AI, a powerful framework for integrating AI capabilities into Spring applications, now offers support for Groq - a blazingly fast AI inference engine with support for Tool/Function calling...

This Week in Spring - July 29th, 2024

Hi Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! It's July 29th, 2024! I can hardly believe it! We're less than a month away from SpringOne 2024! Have you registered for either in-person attendance or the free livestreams yet? As always, we've got a ton of stuff to cover so...

Spring AI with Ollama Tool Support

Earlier this week, Ollama introduced an exciting new feature: tool support for Large Language Models LLMs. Today, we're thrilled to announce that Spring AI 1.0.0-SNAPSHOT has fully embraced this powerful feature, bringing Ollama's function calling capabilities to the Spring ecosystem. Ollama's to...

Spring AI - Groq AI inference

Faster information processing not only inform—it transforms how we perceive and innovate. Spring AI, a powerful framework for integrating AI capabilities into Spring applications, now offers support for Groq - a blazingly fast AI inference engine with supports for Tool/Function calling. Because...

This Week in Spring - June 11th, 2024

This Week in Spring - June 10th, 2024 Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! I'm in Paris, France, to talk to organizations using and working with Spring. Then, next week, it's off to Krakow, Poland, for the amazing Devoxx PL event! I can't wait. If you're around,...

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,...

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org.bouncycastle:bcprov-jdk18on MAVEN version =1.71, =0.6.0, =0.5.0, =0.7.0, =0.7.0, =0.5.0, =0.8.3, =0.8.3, =0.8.3, =0.5.0, =0.5.0, =1.4.0, =1.2.0, =1.2.0-alpha07, =2023.12.01.210510-f61f157, =2023.12.01.210510-f61f157, =2025.05.12.160240-6152e21 and more Source cves: CVE-2024-29857 Source...

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...