This Week in Spring - May 5th, 2026

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! It's May 5th, 2026, and I'm in Mainz, Germany, for the legendary JAX conference! It's been infinitely far too long since I've been at this amazing show, and I'm oh-so happy to be back here! Tonight, after my two talks here, I...

This Week in Spring - April 28th, 2026

Hi Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! As I write this, I'm on PTO in beautiful Santorini, Greece, catching up on some news and about to cruise the islands for some sightseeing. There's nothing quite like springtime in the Mediterranean! I couldn't dream of enjoyin...

This Week in Spring - March 17th, 2026

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another rip-roaring installment of This Week in Spring , which I'm posting ahead of my keynote at the amazing JavaOne 2026 event here in sunny San Francisco, California! I love Piotr's latest post on using local AI models with LM Studio and Spring AI Did you see the ne...

This Year in Spring – December 30th, 2025

Hi, Spring fans! Can you believe it? It's already the 30th of December! I celebrated Christmas with my family in Los Angeles, then we jumped on a flight headed for Southeast Asia to ring in the New Year with more friends and family. I'm sitting at a café in the sweltering city of Kuala Lumpur,...

This Week in Spring – December 23rd, 2025

Happy holidays, everyone! The year may be winding down, but the Spring ecosystem continues unabated. We’re now a few weeks past the generational Spring Boot 4.0 release in November, and there have been tons of releases and patches since then. There’s also equal excitement reflected in posts from...

Towards Spring Tools 5 - Stereotypes and a new Structural View

When working on Spring projects, developers do not only think in terms of low-level concepts like classes and interfaces. When using Spring, you think about higher-level abstractions and concepts like services, repositories, configuration classes, entities, aggregate roots, and so on. To bring...

This Week in Spring - September 23rd, 2025

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! I'm preparing my talks for several amazing shows including: Commit Your Code conference in Plano, Texas starting tomorrow; Dev2Next in Colorado; Devoxx Belgium in Antwerp, Belgium; and CloudFoundry Days in Germany. So much go...

This Week in Spring - August 26th, 2025

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! I'm writing this from the floor of SpringOne, live from lovely Las Vegas! As you can imagine, I've got to get back into it, so we'll make this one a quick one. And if you're here, be sure to say "hi"! In last week's A Bootifu...

A Bootiful Podcast: Architecture sage and Spring Modulith lead Oliver Drotbohm

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment I caught up with architecture guru and Spring Modulith founder and lead Oliver Drotbohm and we looked at some of the amazing possibilities in Spring Modulith 2.0, coming after Spring Framework 7.0 and Spring Boot 4.0 drop later this year!...

This Week in Spring - August 12th, 2025

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! It's August 5th! Which means we're only a few short weeks away until SpringOne 2025! Have you registered? There's so much to cover this week, so let's dive right into it! I love Spring Modulith and I love JetBrains IntelliJ...

This Week in Spring - July 29th, 2025

It's the end of July! JULY! The seventh month of the year, done and dusted! AHHHHH! I've got memories of being on a tropical beach over the winter holidays, sipping rum and dodging mosquitoes like I was doing a rhythmic gymnastics routine just recently. It turns out that was seven months ago, not...

This Week in Spring - July 8th, 2025

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! I write this having spent a wonderful week in paradise Bora Bora, French Polynesia, to be precise with my partner Tam Mie. We were so very sad to have to say goodbye. But that means I'm officially back at my desk, with nary a...

This Week in Spring - June 3rd, 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...

This Week in Sprng - March 4th, 2025

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring , and Happy Devnexus 2025 to those who celebrate! That's right sports fans, I'm off to awesome Atlanta, Georgia later today for Devnexus, one of the world's largest annual gatherings of Java community and luminaries alike. I'l...

This Week in Spring - January 28th, 2025

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another rip-roarin' and exciting installment of This Week in Spring , wherein we look at the amazing week that was in the Spring community. And what a week it's been! In addition to tons of cool tooling and AI related stuff, this week saw the release of the first steps...

This Year in Spring - December 31st, 2024

Hi Spring fans! Happy New Year! And welcome to another installment of This Year in Spring! The year that was... I write this edition from a desk overlooking the beautiful jungle of Martinique, a beautiful island nation in the French Caribbean. I’m sipping some rhum martinique , enjoying the...

This Week in Spring - November 26th, 2024

This Week in Spring - November 26th, 2024 Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! Happy Spring Boot 3.4 release month to those who celebrate! And, also, Happy Thanksgiving to those who celebrate! Spring Boot 3.4 brings with it long-anticipated updates to the entire...

Bootiful Spring Boot 3.4: Start Here

Hi, Spring fans! And happy Spring Boot 3.4 release to those who celebrate! I know, I know what you're thinking: Josh, Spring Boot 3.4 already shipped! I know it. Spring Boot 3.4 dropped a week earlier this year! In the last couple of years, we’ve released Spring Boot on the same day as Thanksgivi...

What's new in Spring Modulith 1.3?

After half a year of development, Spring Modulith 1.3 GA has been released. It is packed with new features, improvements, and – best of all – community contributions. Let me walk you through some of the most interesting ones. Baseline Upgrades As usual, a new minor version of Spring Modulith...

This Week in Spring - October 29th, 2024

Hi, Spring fans! How're things? It's almost Halloween! I'm so excited! I'm going as a PHP program. Boooooooo...t. I'm writing this from the amazing Vaadin Create conference in Frankfurt, Germany, about to do my keynote for an amazing, Spring-loving audience here. So, without further ado, let's di...