Spring Data Ahead of Time Repositories - Part 2

Concluding the Road to GA blog post series, let's explore benefits of Spring Data AOT Repositories. Back in May 2025, we first introduced Ahead of Time AOT repositories as a preview feature for JPA and MongoDB with the 3rd Milestone of the next Spring Data generation. This feature, in short, uses...

This Week in Spring - September 16th, 2025

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another extra special installment of This Week in Spring , wherein we celebrate a very auspicious day indeed: the release of Java 25 and GraalVM 25! That's right: an incredible new iteration of the JVM has just dropped and with it come a ton of features! Let's go throu...

Spring Data Ahead of Time Repositories

In the past couple of years we have seen heavy investment throughout the Java ecosystem to reduce application startup times. The main focus gravitates around Ahead-of-Time optimizations. May it be condensing code into a GraalVM native executable, capturing already optimized bytecode with...

This Week in Spring - January 31st, 2023

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! I'm not going to spend too much time here in the preamble because a today's both my birthday and my late father's birthday and b I got the worst gift ever: COVID-19. Sigh. So, I'm going back to bed. Without further ado, let's...

Spring Tips: the road to Spring Framework 6: the new Ahead-of-Time Compilation Engine and GraalVM

Hi, Spring fans! Spring Boot 3 is here or will be tomorrow, on the 24th of November, 2022, to be more precise!, bringing a fantastic new Ahead-of-Time AOT compilation engine that supports GraalVM native images. Join me, and well dive deep into the engine and its interactions with the Spring...

Native Support in Spring Boot 3.0.0-M5

The Spring Team has been working on native image support for Spring Applications for quite some time. After 3+ years of incubation in the Spring Native experimental project with Spring Boot 2, native support is moving to General Availability with Spring Framework 6 and Spring Boot 3! Native image...