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!...

A Bootiful Podcast: Spring Boot team member Moritz Halbritter (@m_halbritter)

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment Josh Long YouTube.com/@coffeesoftware.com talks to Spring Boot team member Moritz Halbritter @mhalbritter...

A Bootiful Podcast: Sebastien Deleuze and James Ward on a Bootiful Podcast

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment, recorded live from Kotlin Conf 2023 in Amsterdam, I talk to Kotlin luminaries Sébastien Deleuze and James Ward about Kotlin's future, web assembly, and more...

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...

Spring Data JPA introduces query parser!

The Problem One of Spring Data JPA’s handy features is letting you plugin in custom JPA queries through its @Query annotation. This allows some flexiblity because you are still able to offer sort parameters to the consumers of your app. Check out the example below: interface SampleRepository...

A Bootiful Podcast: Google Cloud Java Advocate Aaron Wanjala

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment, Josh Long @starbuxman talks to Google Cloud Java advocate Aaron Wanjala @ AaronMDubya about Spring Framework for Google Cloud...

This Week in Spring - February 21, 20223

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! How're you? I almost forgot today was Tuesday! Here in the US, we had a three day weekend for President's day, and also I've been streaming for a few hours every day or almost every day on my little YouTube channel so the day...

This Week in Spring - January 17th, 2023

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! I went to Helsinki, Finland, last week, and this week I'm in Atlanta, Georgia, to speak at the Atlanta Java User Group. And, of course, next week, I'll be in New York to join a viewing party for the airing of SpringOne...

This Week in Spring - November 15th, 2022

Hi, Spring fans! Howre you doin this fine Tuesday morning? Ive returned home to San Francisco and am up and at em nice and early to catch a flight to Seattle, where Ill speak at the Java User Group tonight. If youre in Seattle, dont miss it! Weve got a ton of cool stuff to get into this week, but...

This Week in Spring - November 8th, 2022

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! Ive been busy this last week! Ive been visiting with customers and talking to the community here in South East Asia. I was in Malaysia last week, and now Im in Bangkok, Thailand. Im near the end of my time here in SE Asia,...

A Bootiful Podcast: Couchbase and Cloud legend Laurent Doguin

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment, Josh Long @starbuxman talks to his friend, fellow Java Champion, and director of developer relations and strategy at Couchbase, Laurent Doguin @ldoguin SpringOne 2022 is almost here! This is our first in-person event since the pandemic and its when we release...

Spring Session 2022.0.0-M3 Released

On behalf of the team, I’m pleased to announce the release of Spring Session 2022.0.0-M3. These releases deliver, enhancements, bug fixes, and dependency upgrades. For your convenience, Spring Boot will pick up these artifacts with its upcoming releases. The following modules were updated as part...

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...

A Bootiful Podcast: Kubernetes contributor and fellow Tanzu Developer Advocate Leigh Capili

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment Josh Long @starbuxman talks to fellow teammate and Kubernetes ecosystem legend Leigh Capili @capileigh about Gitops, Kubernetes, Puppet/Chef, continuous delivery, how zoom scales if you deploy on-prem, being a developer advocate, Flux, and so much more...

A Bootiful Podcast: Devoxx UK organizer and VoxxedDays cofounder Mark Hazell on running great conferences

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment, Josh Long @starbuxman talks to Devoxx UK organizer and Voxxed Days cofounder Mark Hazell @mrhazell...

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...

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...

This Week in Spring - June 2nd, 2026

Hi, Spring fans, and welcome to another momentous installment of This Week in Spring! A lot to get into this week, but let's first take some time to address the meta: where are the May releases? If you read our May 11th post, you know they've been delayed. We wanted to speak a bit more about why ...

Spring AI Agentic Patterns (Part 2): AskUserQuestionTool - Agents That Clarify Before Acting

Traditional AI interactions follow a common pattern: you provide a prompt, the AI makes assumptions, and produces a response. When those assumptions don't match your needs, you're left iterating through corrections. Each assumption creates rework—wasting time and context. What if your AI agent...

Spring gRPC Next Steps for 1.0.0

This is a new blog post in the Road to GA series, this time updating everyone on the plans to integrate Spring gRPC with Spring Boot 4. The original plan was to move the autoconfiguration from Spring gRPC into Spring Boot in time for the 4.0 release. Unfortunately we haven't been able to find the...

This Week in Spring - April 8th, 2025

Hi, Spring fans! How are ya? I'm doing fine. Excited, even. You see, Spring AI M7 is coming soon! In theory, it drops on Thursday. Don't hold us to that — these things can change :- But soon , and it's turning out to be a whopper of a release! You should try upgrading your application to the new ...

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...

Bootiful Spring Boot 3.4: Spring AI

I love Spring AI. It’s an amazing project designed to bring the patterns and practices of AI engineering to the Spring Boot developer. It’s got clean idiomatic abstractions that’ll make any Sring developer feel right at home, and it has a ton of integrations with all manner of different vector...

Bootiful Spring Boot 3.4: Spring Batch

The new release of Spring Batch 5.2 has a ton of features! Spring Batch is a compelling way to handle large but finite sequential data access. Think: reading from an SQL database and writing to a CSV, or reading from an FTP server and writing out an analysis of a MongoDB - batch processing. You...

Spring Tips: Testcontainers, Docker Compose, and Service Connections, oh my

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment, we look at the amazing service connection mechanism in Spring Boot. Service connections are what allow Spring Boot to connect to Testcontainers or Docker Compose containers for supporting infrastructure like SQL databases, middleare, and more. java...

A Bootiful Podcast: Spring Security community legend Laur Spilca

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment I talk to Spring Security community legend Laur Spilca, live from the Spring I/O show in beautiful Barcelona!...

A Bootiful Podcast: Thomas Vitale, author of Cloud Native Spring in Action

Hi, Spring fans! In today's episode I'm thrilled to sit down with my friend and Cloud Native Spring in Action author Thomas Vitale. This episode was recorded live at the amazing Spring IO 2024 event...

A Bootiful Podcast: Daniel Garnier-Moiroux on Passkeys and Spring Security

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment, I talk to my friend and colleague Daniel Garnier-Moiroux about the amazing awesome implications of passkeys in a Spring Security application...

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...

A Bootiful Podcast: Cristian Schuszter on CERN

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment I talk to Cristian Schuszter, a software engineer at CERN. This episode was recorded live at VOXXED DAYS CERN!. Don't forget to help us out with the State of Spring Survey...

A Bootiful Podcast: Oracle Java Developer Advocate Nicolai Parlog on the latest and greatest in Java

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment, I talk to Oracle Java Developer Advocate Nicolai Parlog on the latest and greatest in Java...

A Bootiful Podcast: Dr. Venkat Subramaniam, on the latest in Java

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment the good and the great Dr. Venkat Subramaniam rejoins the show, live from the fantastic VOXXED DAYS CERN event, to talk about some of the amazing features in Java 21...

A Bootiful Podcast: Gunnar Morling on the 1BRC challenge and taking Java to BLAZING fast performance territory

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment, I talk to fellow Java Champion Gunnar Morling, and we look at how his 1BRC challenge helped the community eek out some of Java's best performance numbers...

A Bootiful Podcast: Apache Skywalking’s Sheng Wu and Apache ShardingSphere’s Trista Pan

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment we're joined by two Apache luminaries Trista Pan - of Apache ShardingSphere - and Sheng Wu - of Apache Skywalking...

A Bootiful Podcast: Kubernetes guru Leigh Capili helps us ring in the new year

Hi, Spring fans! And Happy new year! In this episode I talk to Kubernetes guru Leigh Capili, who helps us ring in the new year!...

A Bootiful Podcast: GraalVM founder and Oracle vice president Thomas Wuerthinger

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment Josh Long talks to Oracle vice president Thomas Wuerthinger about the project he created and leads, GraalVM. This was recorded live from Devoxx Belgium 2023!...

Tackling the OAuth2 Client component model in Spring Security

In Spring Security 5, we saw many developments in the OAuth2 story with the introduction of OAuth2 Resource Server and OAuth2 Client into the framework. Today, it is quite convenient to develop applications that are secured by OAuth2 using the features available in OAuth2 Resource Server...

A Bootiful Podcast: Spring Framework and Spring Boot legend Stéphane Nicoll on a Bootiful Podcast

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of A Bootiful Podcast! In this installment, Josh Long talk to Spring team legend Stéphane Nicoll @snicoll about Spring Boot, Apache Maven and Gradle, his journey to the Spring team, and so much more. This episode was recorded live from beautiful...

Azure Spring Apps Enterprise – More Power, Scalability & Extended Spring Boot Support

Can you believe Spring is celebrating its 20th anniversary this year? We could not have gotten here without our millions of Spring developers across the globe, thank you! Spring has been an essential tool for Java developers, and it continues to grow and innovate at a fast pace. From the onset,...

A Bootiful Podcast: Jetbrains' Anton Arhipov on IntelliJ, Java, and so much more

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of A Bootiful Podcast! This week Josh Long talks to Jetbrain's developer advocate Anton Arhipov, recorded live from the amazing Spring IO show in Barcelona, Spain!...

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...

Unleash Spring apps in a flex environment with Azure Spring Apps Consumption and Dedicated plans

In March, we introduced the Consumption pricing plan for Azure Spring Apps allowing you to start from zero and scale to zero vCPU. Today, we are thrilled to announce the public preview of the Standard Dedicated plan! The Standard Dedicated plan provides a fully managed, dedicated environment for...

Spring Framework Reference Documentation Update

Starting with version 6.0.9, the Spring Framework reference documentation site is generated with Antora. This is a big change that brings many improvements. This blog post provides context around that. Overview For a long time the Spring Framework reference documentation had two versions, one...

This Week in Spring - March 7th, 2023

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! It's an amazing week, and this week we've got a lot to look at. Let's dive right into it. Spring Cloud Function for Azure Function Spring Data 2022.0.3 and 2021.2.9 released Spring R2DBC for Reactive Relational Databases in...

This Week in Spring - February 28th, 2023

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! I'm writing this installment from a hotel room in Dallas, Texas, in the USA. Last night I had the privilege of hanging out with some of my friends from the local Java scene. Today I meet with customers. It's going to be a nic...

A Bootiful Podcast: Dr. Amanda Martin, Gradle developer advocate

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment, Josh Long @starbuxman talks with Gradle developer advocate Dr. Amanda Martin @DrAmandaLMartin...

A Bootiful Podcast: Spring legend Ramnivas Laddad

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment, Josh Long @starbuxman talks to Spring and cloud legend, Spring Cloud Connectors founder, and Cloud Foundry founder, Ramnivas Laddad @ramnivas...

A Bootiful Podcast: DaShaun Carter: amazing human being, father, friend, engineer, and fellow Spring Developer Advocate

Hi, Spring fans! this episode, we turn it to 11 and ring in the new year with a fantastic human being, father, friend, engineer, and fellow Spring Developer Advocate: DaShaun Carter @dashaun. Happy new year!...