Spring Boot 3.0.1 available now

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, Im happy to announce that Spring Boot 3.0.1 has been released and is now available from Maven Central. This release includes 54 bug fixes, documentation improvements, and dependency upgrades. Thanks to all those who have contributed with iss...

Embracing Virtual Threads

Project Loom has made it into the JDK through JEP 425. Its available since Java 19 in September 2022 as a preview feature. Its goal is to dramatically reduce the effort of writing, maintaining, and observing high-throughput concurrent applications. Where Virtual Threads make sense This makes...

This Week in Spring - September 5th, 2022

Hi, Spring fans! How are you? Its a fantastic Tuesday, the 5th of September, 2022, and I couldnt be happier. Its also Labor Day weekend here in the US. It marks the unofficial end of summer, which is a bit sad. But, on the upside, its a four-day weekend for me! Im technically off today. So, youll...

CVE report published for Spring Cloud Function

We have released Spring Cloud Function 3.2.6 to address the following CVE report. CVE-2202-22979: Spring Cloud Function Dos Vulnerability Please review the information in the CVE report and upgrade immediately...

This Week in Spring - June 7th, 2022

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! Ive just landed in tantalizing Toronto, Canada, for the SpringOne Tour Toronto show. Im so excited to be here, at long last, after so long away from one of my favorite countries. Ill be doing two talks - my usual, Kubernetes...

Spring Tips: Learn Spring for GraphQL (parts 1 and 2 of an ongoing series)

Hi, Spring fans! In thi^^^ these installments, we begin a new series introducing the Spring for GraphQL project. In this first installment, GraphQL Java lead Andi Marek @andimarek and I @starbuxman look at the basics of using the GraphQL Java engine that underpins Spring for GraphQL. In this seco...

Ever wanted to rewrite a query in Spring Data JPA?

Sometimes, no matter how many features you try to apply, it seems impossible to get Spring Data JPA to apply every thing youd like to a query before it is sent to the EntityManager. With 3.0.0-SNAPSHOT and targeted for the next milestone release train of Spring Data, you now have the ability to g...

RestClient Support for OAuth2 in Spring Security 6.4

In Spring Security 6.2 and 6.3, we have worked to steadily improve configuration for applications using OAuth2 Client. Configuration for common use cases has been simplified by allowing applications to publish beans which are automatically included in the overall OAuth2 Client configuration durin...

This Week in Spring - October 22nd, 2024

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring. I write this to you in an Uber speeding down the autobahn near Frankfurt, Germany. What a time to be alive! At the rate this driver's going, I won't have much time to write this before we've arrived, so let's dive right into...

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...

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...

Producer Initiated Transactions in Spring Cloud Stream Kafka Applications

Other parts in this blog series Part 1: Introduction to Transactions in Spring Cloud Stream Kafka Applications This article is part 2 of the blog series in which we look at transactions in detail with Spring Cloud Stream and Apache Kafka. We saw a general introduction to transactions in the...

Hello, Java 21

Hi, Spring fans! Get the bits Before we get started, do something for me quickly. If you haven’t already, go install SKDMAN. Then run: sdk install java 21-graalce && sdk default java 21-graalce There you have it. You now have Java 21 and graalvm supporting Java 21 on your machine, ready to go. Ja...

Spring Cloud Azure 5.0 is now Generally Available

We're very pleased to announce that Spring Cloud Azure 5.0 is now generally available. This major release includes the following features, improvements, and documentation updates: Compatible with Spring Boot 3 and Spring Cloud 2022.0.0 Supports Passwordless Connections Updated Azure for Spring...

The new Spring Boot version validation and upgrade support in Spring Tools

New releases of Spring Boot are being released on a quite frequent schedule and updating your projects to newer versions of Spring Boot is something that many teams and organizations around the globe do as part of their daily work. Sometimes those upgrades are simple and easy, for example for new...

This Week in Spring - January 9th, 2023

Hi, Spring fans! As I write this Im on a plane winging my way to Helsinki, Finland. A new year and new journeys begin. Its going to be cold there. Wish me luck! Do you know what always warms me up? The thrill of learning. And this weeks no different. This week weve got some good stuff line up so...

Securing Spring AI MCP servers with OAuth2

Spring AI offers support for Model Context Protocol, or MCP for short, which allows AI models to interact with and access external tools and resources in a structured way. With Spring AI, developers can create their own MCP Servers and expose capabilities to AI models in just a few lines of code...

This Week in Spring - May 27th, 2024

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! And what a week it will be! I'm in Venice, Italy, on a little vacation, but tomorrow I begin a quick journey to beautiful Sofia, Bulgaria, where I'll be speaking at the amazing JPrime software show it's my first time speaking...

This Week in Spring - January 16th, 2024

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! It's the 16th of January already! We're closer to February than not! I can hardly believe it. As always, we've got a lot to cover so let's dive right into it. the Spring Authorization Server 1.3.0-m1 is now available this is...

This Week in Spring - October 3rd, 2023

Hi Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! How're you doin'? I've just flown in from Singapore - where I was keynoting and presenting at SpringOne Singapore - and am now in Antwerp, Belgium for the deliriously fun Devoxx Belgium show. I've missed this show, and it's a...

This Week in Spring - August 22, 2023

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! And, would you believe it, I'm writing this at SpringOne 2023, in sunny Las Vegas, Nevada. This is the first in-person SpringOne since 2019, and I'm so, so, so glad to be here! We've got a ton of things to get into this week,...

This Week in Spring - April 4th, 2023

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! How are you doin? Me, I'm exhausted! It's been quite the odyssey trying to get to Devnexus, but I made it, eventually! If you're at Devnexus, check out this roundup of interesting and awesome talks from the Spring team and...

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 Cloud Azure 5.0 is now Generally Available

We're very pleased to announce that Spring Cloud Azure 5.0 is now generally available. This major release includes the following features, improvements, and documentation updates: Compatible with Spring Boot 3 and Spring Cloud 2022.0.0 Supports Passwordless Connections Updated Azure for Spring...

Introducing Microservices Patterns with Spring Integration

Hey Spring Community! I hope you are enjoying Spring One Essentials these days. The most exciting feature for me is an Observability which is spread throughout the Spring portfolio from now on. Nevertheless, today I’d like to share with a project I’m working on since holidays, where the mentioned...

The new Spring Boot version validation and upgrade support in Spring Tools

New releases of Spring Boot are being released on a quite frequent schedule and updating your projects to newer versions of Spring Boot is something that many teams and organizations around the globe do as part of their daily work. Sometimes those upgrades are simple and easy, for example for new...

This Week in Spring - December 20th, 2022

Hi, Spring fans! Its the 20th of December, 2022 as I write this, which means that by the time we meet again, here on this humble blog, Tuesday next week, Christmas will already have come and gone. Chanukah is already here! Time is sure flying! So, to those of you who celebrate: Happy Chanukah,...

This Week in Spring - August 23rd, 2022

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! Weve got a ton to cover, so lets dive right into it! A Bootiful Podcast: Flowable founder Joram Barrez on a Bootiful Podcast on workflow, business process management, and more Building IoT Applications Using Fauna and Spring...

This Week in Spring - July 5th, 2022

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This weeks all sorts of weird for me. Its Tuesday! But here in the US we just celebrated the 4th of July, and I, like many Americans, took a long weekend. Took some time with the family to do a little road trip up north to...

A Bootiful Podcast: Event streaming guru Jan Svoboda on Apache Kafka Design Patterns

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment Josh Long @starbuxman talks to event streaming guru at Confluent, the company behind Apache Kafka, Jan Svoboda about Apache Kafka design patterns. Kafka summit in London Europe end of April 2022 Kafka Summit London 2022 | April 25-26 | London, UK the Confluent...

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 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...

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...

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 - April 30th, 2024

Welcome to yet another amazing installment of This Week in Spring! As usual, we've got a ton of stuff to get into, so let's dive right into it! Chris Bono announces the new versions of Spring Functions Catalog and Spring Cloud Streams Applications In last week's installment of A Bootiful Podcast,...

Spring Framework 6.2.0-M1: all the little things

The Spring Framework team has been busy reviewing the issue tracker in anger and reducing the number of opened issues. This was long overdue, with a number of issues being invalid or superseded in the meantime. This helped the team focusing on a more manageable amount of issues and we used the...

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 - 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 - November 7th, 2023

Hi, Spring fans! Can you believe we've already turned the calendar page to November? Time sure is a swift developer, deploying months as if they were minor versions in an ever-evolving application. As we adjust our clocks to fall back, waving a reluctant goodbye to daylight savings time, the...

What new is coming in reactor-core 3.6.0?

Reactor 3.6.0 is coming and going to be GA on November 14. This blogpost describes new features that are included in this upcoming release! Virtual Threads support Today, everyone talks about Java 21 and Project Loom. The Project Reactor team hears that and sees value in that project within our...

Runtime efficiency with Spring (today and tomorrow)

With Spring Framework 6.1 and Spring Boot 3.2 general availability approaching, we would like to share an overview about several efforts the Spring team is pursuing to allow developers to optimize the runtime efficiency of their applications. We are going to cover the following technologies and u...

This Week in Spring - September 5th, 2023

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! How are you? I just got back from another fabulous labor day weekend, and am headed to Oslo, Norway, for the fabulous JavaZone 2023 event. This will be my first time returning to lovely Oslo, Norway, since the pandemic! I can...

A Bootiful Podcast: cloud native Chris Richardson

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment, Josh Long @starbuxman talks to original cloud native Chris Richardson on microservices, architecture, and more...

This Week in Spring - May 30th, 2023

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This installment I write on the day of my daughter's High School graduation, an auspicious day indeed! There's a lot to get through this week, though, and I have a graduation to get to, so let's dive right in! Spring...

Context Propagation with Project Reactor 3 - Unified Bridging between Reactive and Imperative

This post is a part of a series: 1. The Basics 2. The bumpy road of Spring Cloud Sleuth 3. Unified Bridging between Reactive and Imperative We concluded the last article with the thought that Spring Cloud Sleuth’s MANUAL context propagation strategy is both performant and provides correct...

This Week in Spring - SpringOne Essentials 2023 edition - January 24th, 2023

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! Today is a very day for you see, today we kick off SpringOne Essentials, the online incarnation of SpringOne, online. Well see you live, on stream, in just a few hours!. SpringOne Essentials is going to be amazing, but before...

This Week in Spring - December 6th, 2022

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! How are you? You know what Ive wanted to do? See my friends on the Spring team in person since the pandemic descended. And, Im overjoyed to relate, Ive just had the privilege of a nice meeting with several of them last night...

Spring Tips: Kubernetes Native Java (Redux, 2022)

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment, Josh Long @starbuxman looks at some of the amazing opportunities for building Spring Boot applications intended for production in Kubernetes in mid 2022. The code, as usual, is available on the spring-tips Github organization...

This Week in Spring - July 12th, 2022

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! How are you? This week Im writing you from sunny Seattle, Washington, where were having our next installment of the SpringOne Tour series. Its been a ton of fun seeing all these fun and friendly faces again and getting to see...

Spring Tips: Learn Spring for GraphQL (the last two episodes: parts 7 and 8)

Hi, Spring fans! In thi^^^ these installments, we continue our series introducing the Spring for GraphQL project. This series features Spring for GraphQL lead Rossen Stoyanchev @rstoya05 - whose work you may know from basically everything in the wide and wonderful world of Springdom having to do...