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...

A Bootiful Podcast: Netflix’s Paul Bakker and Kavitha Srinivasan on scaling Spring Boot and Spring GraphQL

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment, I'm thrilled to be joined by Netflix's Paul Bakker and Kavitha Srinivasan, who explain how they're integrating and evolving Spring for GraphQL in their own GraphQL stack and how they're managing, growing, and evolving thousands of services written in Spring B...

Spring Tips: Hello, Java 22!

Hi, Spring fana! In this installment, I look at the amazing, just-released, Java 22!...

A Bootiful Podcast: Stuart Marks (aka ”Dr. Deprecator”) on Java, its amazing features, and more

Hi, Spring fans! Happy one-day-belated Java 22 release day to those who celebrate! To ring in the new release, we've got an extra special and incredible discussion with a Java legend - somebody who's been involved in the Java community and work for decades - Stuart Marks, or "Dr. Deprecator," as...

Spring Tips: Spring Data JDBC

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment, Josh Long looks at the fantastic Spring Data JDBC project, which is one of the easiest and most powerful ways to leverage JDBC in a Spring Boot application...

This Week in Spring - December 12th, 2023

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to a new installment of This Week in Spring! We've got a ton of stuff to get into, so let's dive right in! Laur Spilca and I look at how to ugprade a Spring Security 5.x application to Spring Security 6.x. Apache SkyWalking with Sheng Wu and Apache ShardingSphere with...

This Week in Spring - October 31st, 2023

Hi Spring fans, and Happy Halloween from the Spring team to those who celebrate! I hope your evening is fun and your day free of scary bugs! My friends, we've got some interesting stuff to look at this week so let's dive right into it. A Bootiful Podcast: Mr. Spring in Action, Craig Walls Spring...

This Week in Spring - October 10th, 2023

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! Last week I was in Antwerp, Belgium, for the amazing Devoxx Belgium event, and this week I've been in Amsterdam for the SpringOne Tour Amsterdam stop and - in the middle of the SpringOne Tour Amsterdam event - I dipped out to...

Spring Boot 3.1's ConnectionDetails abstraction

If you've used Spring Boot for a while, you're probably familiar with setting up connection details using properties. For example, you may have used spring.datasource.url to configure a JDBC connection. In Spring Boot 3.1 this continues to work as you'd expect, but we've changed things a bit unde...

A Bootiful Podcast: Java Champion Ken Kousen on Gradle, Java, Kotlin, Mockito, and more

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment, Josh Long @starbuxman talks to Java Champion Ken Kousen @kenkousen, live from the Great International Developer Summit 2023 in beautiful Bangalore, India, about Gradle, the Kotlin DSL, Java, and so much more Check out Ken's awesome Youtube channel...

This Week in Spring - April 11th, 2023

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! As I write this I am in Amsterdam, Netherlands, preparing to speak at the Utrecht JUG tonight along with fellow Java Champion Trisha Gee. We're not speaking together, but instead it's a double header: she'll speak first, then...

An ever green, ever great way to learn Spring

I could do this post every week. Wait, I do do this post every week! It's called This Week in Spring, and in it I recap a lot of interesting new bits of content on the internet that elaborate or introduce or innovate. I love those points of data. They help. But they're almost never a full-guided...

This Week in Spring - October 11th, 2022

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! I write this installment as I pack and prepare for my trip to Antwerp, Belgium, for the always-amazing Devoxx show in Antwerp, Belgium. Ive so missed this show over the pandemic and am so looking forward to returning. I hope ...

My SpringOne 2022

It has taken me an embarrassingly long time to appreciate and understand that the devil is in the details regarding software development. Writing happy-path business logic isnt the hard part! Its the failure cases, observability, resilience, and process. Its security and other so-called...

A Bootiful Podcast: Dr. Kris De Volder on Spring Tools, VS Code, and so much more

Hi, Spring fans! In this episode Josh Long @starbuxman talks to Dr. Kris De Volder, a longtime member of the Spring Tools team, about all the cool stuff hes worked on and is going to work on. And then we get knee deep into a discussion around building IDE integrations...

A Bootiful Podcast: Flowable founder Joram Barrez on a Bootiful Podcast on workflow, business process management, and more

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment, Josh Long @starbuxman talks to Flowable founder Joram Barrez @jbarrez about workflow, business process management BPM, decision management, rules, and so much more...

Spring Shell 2.1.0-RC1 is now available

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, Im happy to announce that Spring Shell 2.1.0-RC1 has been released and is now available from . Please see the release notes for more details. Thanks to all those who have contributed with issue reports and pull requests. How can you help?...

A Bootiful Podcast: Spring Developer Advocate Dan Vega

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment, Josh Long @starbuxman talks to fellow Spring Developer Advocate Dan Vega @therealdanvega...

A Bootiful Podcast: JVM and .NET legend Ted Neward on... just about everything

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment, I @starbuxman talk to my old friend, world-famous polyglot and code curmudgeon, software philosopher, industry veteran, and legend of ecosystems aplenty, Ted Neward @tedneward...

A Bootiful Podcast: EasyMock contributor, Java Champion, and Java luminary Henri Tremblay

Hi, Spring fans! In this episode, Josh Long @starbuxman talks to fellow Java Champion, EasyMock engineer, and Java luminary, JUG leader, and legend Henri Tremblay @henritremblay...

This Week in Spring - May 3rd, 2022

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! How are you doin? Im excited! This week Im speaking at the ArabJUG, and Ill be speaking at Microsofts huuuge JDConf event. Both of these are virtual. Then, next Monday, Im on a plane bound for London, UK, where Ill be speakin...

Building Native Images with GraalVM and Spring Native on Apple's M1 Architecture

It finally happened! They did it! They did it just in time for me to get on the road and start building applications on the road with my shiny new laptop, too! JOY!! Oracle and the GraalVM team released GraalVM and the GraalVM native image capability for Apple M1! Ive been waiting for this day fo...

cve-2026-47883 - MEDIUM - Spring Framework Open Redirect in UrlHandlerFilter

cve-2026-47883 - MEDIUM - Spring Framework Open Redirect in UrlHandlerFilter...

cve-2026-59282 - MEDIUM - Spring Framework Denial of Service via Unbounded List Growth in Data Binding

cve-2026-59282 - MEDIUM - Spring Framework Denial of Service via Unbounded List Growth in Data Binding...

cve-2026-59327 - MEDIUM - CVE-2026-59327: Cleartext Storage of Spring Boot DevTools Remote Secret in Eclipse Launch Configurations

Spring Tools for Eclipse stores the Spring Boot DevTools remote secret spring.devtools.remote.secret as a plain string attribute on the "Spring Boot DevTools Client" launch configuration. Eclipse persists launch configuration attributes as cleartext XML, either to workspace metadata or, if the us...

cve-2026-41001 - MEDIUM - Predictable Temp Directory in Artemis Auto-configuration

cve-2026-41001 - MEDIUM - Predictable Temp Directory in Artemis Auto-configuration...

cve-2026-41711 - MEDIUM - Potential Denial of Service through crafted Sort Parameters

cve-2026-41711 - MEDIUM - Potential Denial of Service through crafted Sort Parameters...

cve-2026-41694 - LOW - SAML Payloads Decrypted Without Valid Signature

cve-2026-41694 - LOW - SAML Payloads Decrypted Without Valid Signature...

cve-2026-41714 - MEDIUM - In Spring AMQP the `RabbitConnectionFactoryBean.setUri("amqps://...")` bypasses secure SSL setup, uses `TrustEverythingTrustManager`

cve-2026-41714 - MEDIUM - In Spring AMQP the RabbitConnectionFactoryBean.setUri"amqps://..." bypasses secure SSL setup, uses TrustEverythingTrustManager...

cve-2026-41701 - MEDIUM - In Spring AMQP sequential correlation IDs enable reply poisoning on fixed reply queues

cve-2026-41701 - MEDIUM - In Spring AMQP sequential correlation IDs enable reply poisoning on fixed reply queues...

cve-2026-41006 - HIGH - Spring HATEOAS Collection+JSON/UBER deserializers do not honor Jackson configuration

cve-2026-41006 - HIGH - Spring HATEOAS Collection+JSON/UBER deserializers do not honor Jackson configuration...

Spring Cloud Config Server Logged Sensitive Information

When enabling trace logging in Spring Cloud Config Server sensitive information was placed in plain text in the logs...

Ronald Dehuysser, founder of JobRunr, on their ambitious new JavaClaw-like agent runtime

Hi Spring fans! In this installment, I talk to my friend and JobRunr founder Ronald Dehuysser about the latest and greatest, and their new "JavaClaw" project!...

Spring gRPC SecurityContext leaks across requests on authorization failure

When an authenticated user is denied access to a gRPC method, their authenticated identity remains bound to the gRPC worker thread and can be inherited by a subsequent unauthenticated request on the same thread. This may allow the subsequent user to gain escalated permissions...

Elasticsearch auto-configuration with an SSL bundle disables TLS hostname verification

When configured to use an SSL bundle, Spring Boot's Elasticsearch auto-configuration does not perform hostname verification when connecting to the Elasticsearch server...

SSL bundle configuration silently bypassed in Spring Cloud Gateway

When configuring SSL bundles in Spring Cloud Gateway by using the configuration property spring.ssl.bundle , the configuration was silently ignored and the default SSL configuration was used instead...

A Bootiful Podcast: Java developer advocate Ana-Maria Mihalceanu

I had a wonderful chat with Java Developer Advocate Ana-Maria Mihalceanu about Java Flight Recorder, Project Babylon, Project Panama, and so many other exciting things in the Java ecosystem...

RediSearch Query via Unescaped TAG Filter Values in RedisVectorStore

In RedisFilterExpressionConverter of spring-ai-redis-store , when a user-controlled string is passed as a filter value for a TAG field, stringValue inserts the value directly into the @field:VALUE RediSearch TAG block without escaping characters...

This Week in Spring - November 10th, 2025

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! As I write this I am preparing for a flight to North Carolina first in flight!. This week's going to be busy, but next week even busier still! I'll be at AI By The Bay in San Francisco, AI Native Dev Con in NYC, and QCon SF i...

Create Self-Improving AI Agents Using Spring AI Recursive Advisors

The Spring AI ChatClient offers a fluent API for communicating with an AI model. The fluent API provides methods for building the constituent parts of a prompt that gets passed to the AI model as input. Advisors are a key part of the fluent API that intercept, modify, and enhance AI-driven...

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!...

Spring Security authorization bypass for method security annotations on private methods

Spring Security Aspects may not correctly locate method security annotations on private methods. This can cause an authorization bypass. Your application may be affected by this if the following are true: In that case, the target method may be able to be invoked without proper authorization. You...

This Week in Sprng - April 1st, 2025

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another exciting installment of This Week in Spring! It's April Fools day, so be wary of things you read on the internet, but it's also the 11th anniversary of Spring Boot 1.0, which was released this day in 2014! that's not an April Fools. Happy birthday! I'm in...

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...

Spring Tips: HTMX

Hi, Spring fans! HTMX is the progressive hypertext sensation that's sweeping the process of web app creation, and - thanks to a nice integration by Spring community legend Wim Deblauwe, it's easier than ever to use it with Spring Boot and Thymeleaf. And, it's the topic of today's installment! jav...

Spring Tips: Beans, Beans: What's in a Spring bean?

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment we explore the essential Spring bean. What are they, how are they created, and what do they mean to you?...

A Bootiful Podcast: Joseph Ottinger and Andrew Lombardi on "Beginning Spring 6"

Hi, Spring fans! In this episode I'm joined by Java luminaries and Apress' Beginning Spring 6 authors Joseph Ottinger and Andrew Lombardi...

A Bootiful Podcast: Spring AI lead Dr. Mark Pollack

Hi, Spring fans! In this episode I talk to Dr. Mark Pollack, lead of the new Spring AI project. This episode was recorded live at SpringOne at VMware Explore 2023, in Las Vegas...

A Bootiful Podcast: Tadaya Tsuyukubo, creator of R2DBC Proxy, DataSource Proxy, and more

HI, Spring fans! In this installment Josh Long talks to R2DBC Proxy creator Tadaya Tsuyukubo, @ttddyy, creator of R2DBC Proxy and others...

A Bootiful Podcast: Elastic's Philipp Krenn

Hi Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of a Bootiful Podcast! In this installment, Josh Long talks to Elastic's Philipp Krenn, live from Spring IO 2023 in beautiful Barcelona, Spain!...