A Bootiful Podcast: Spring and Java community legend Marten Deinum

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment, Josh Long @starbuxman talks to longtime Spring community member and legend Marten Deinum @mdeinum about scuba diving, software, Spring, community, and more. Also: I fixed the odd silence in the middle of the last few episodes! thanks for suffering through it...

This Week in Spring - October 4th, 2022

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! Its October 4th, 2022, and Im in Austin, TX, for the new version of show formerly known as the Kafka Summit, here to talk to folks about the amazing opportunities for Spring Boot and Apache Kafka. On the 12th, Ill be in...

A Bootiful Podcast: thought leader Chris Richardson (and no, I'm not using that title ironically!)

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment, Josh Long @starbuxman talks to his friend Chris Richardson @crichardson, who helped articulate and advance cloud computing, reactive programming, microservices, domain-driven design, event sourcing, and so much more years before the zeitgeist. Also, we used t...

Delete Passwords: Passwordless Connections for Spring Boot Apps to Azure Services

Using username/password credentials to access one application from another presents a huge security risk for many reasons. Today, we are announcing the preview of passwordless connections for Java applications to Azure database and eventing services, letting you finally shift away from using...

This Week in Spring - September 27th, 2022

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! Its the last week of September, already! The years more done than not. The days are receding into darkness earlier. And the Pumpkin Spice Lattes are upon us. The darker and colder days are kind of a bummer, but Im stil excite...

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...

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: 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...

This Week in Spring - September 20th, 2022

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring wherein I endeavor as best as I can to capture the latest-and-greatest in the wide, wacky, and wonderful world of Springdom! Naturally, I fail miserably basically every week. Theres no way I could hope to capture everything of...

Spring Data REST Vulnerability (CVE-2022-31679)

Updates - 09-19 Vulnerability announced here and Spring Data REST 3.6.7 and 3.7.3 released - 09-19 Blog post updated to refer to the CVE report published The Spring Data 2021.1.7 and 2021.2.3 releases shipped on September 19th contained releases for Spring Data REST 3.6.7 and 3.7.3 which include...

A Bootiful Podcast: big data legend, former Pivot, and friend to the Spring community, Tim Spann

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment, Josh Long @starbuxman talks to big data legend, former Pivot, and friend to the Spring community, Tim Spann @PaaSDev, about big data, StreamNative, and Apache Pulsar, and Spring for Apache Pulsar. Get your notebooks ready for this one, class!...

This Week in Spring - September 13th, 2022

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! Weve got a lot of good stuff to get to so lets dive right into it! A Bootiful Podcast: Hashicorps Rosemary Wang on securing the intersection of apps and ops with Hashicorp Vault a nice video by my colleague Dan Vega: Spring...

A Bootiful Podcast: Hashicorp's Rosemary Wang on securing the intersection of apps and ops with Hashicorp Vault

Hi, Spring fans! In this episode Josh Long @starbuxman talks to Hashicorp Developer Advocate Rosemary Wang @joatmon08 about a few Hashicorp technologies and their integrations with Spring Boot...

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...

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...

Price Reduction - Azure Spring Apps does more, costs less!

We believe in providing the most innovative cloud offerings at incredibly competitive prices. As we operate Azure Spring Apps, we continue to build efficiencies and economies of scale. We are passing those efficiencies to you. Many customers have asked us to lower the size of the base unit to mak...

Microsoft is committed to the success of Java developers

Hi, Spring fans! This is a guest post from our friend Julia Liuson, President, Developer Division, Microsoft As a company, we are committed to making Java developers as efficient and productive as possible. This commitment means empowering you to use any tool, framework, and application server on...

This Week in Spring - August 30th, 2022

Hi, Spring fans! How are you? Howre you doin this fine tuesday morning? Im doing well, of course, because this week VMwares tentpole show - VMware Explore - is happening not even a mile from my home, here in San Francisco! And this is just the first one - therell be another show, my favorite show...

Creating a custom Spring Cloud Gateway Filter

In this article, we look into writing a custom extension for Spring Cloud Gateway. Before we get started, let’s go over how Spring Cloud Gateway works: 1. First, a client makes a network request to the Gateway 2. The Gateway is defined with a number of routes, each with Predicates to match the...

A Bootiful Podcast: Fellow Java Champion and TimescaleDB developer advocate Christoph Engelbert

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment, Josh Long @starbuxman talks to fellow Java Champion and TimescaleDB developer advocate Christoph Engelbert @noctarius2k about PostgreSQL, Java, time series databases, observability, and so much more...

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...

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...

Introducing Experimental Spring Support for Apache Pulsar

We are happy to announce that we are incubating a new experimental Spring project for Apache Pulsar. This project aims to provide Spring-friendly APIs, building blocks, and programming models for writing Java applications that interact with Apache Pulsar. Apache Pulsar is a popular messaging syst...

This Week in Spring - August 16th, 2022

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another wonder-filled installment of This Week in Spring! Its been a week! Sometimes I can scarcely believe it myself. And can you believe its August 16th already?? My daughters starting school this week! Were in the northern hemisphere, and Summer break is already ove...

A Bootiful Podcast: the good Dr. Venkat Subramaniam

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment, Josh Long @starbuxman talks to the good Dr. Venkat Subramaniam @venkats about the art of writing software, his latest projects, and more...

Spring Web Flow 3.0 M1 Released

It has been almost 4 years since the last set of Spring Web Flow releases. Nevertheless, the project continues to serve a specific need particularly well, arguably better than alternatives, and remains in active use. While there hasnt been a strong driver for new releases, the upcoming Spring...

This Week in Spring - August 9th, 2022

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! How are you this fine Tuesday? Im in Kansas City for the Kansas City Developer Conference. Its a crazy fun show, and Im glad to be here. I only wish the rest of you were here, too! Weve got a packed This Week in Spring,...

A Bootiful Podcast: Observability guru Jonatan Ivanov on the future of observability in Spring Boot

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment, Josh Long @starbuxman talks to Spring observability guru Jonatan Ivanov @jonatanivanov...

This Week in Spring - August 1st, 2022

Aloha, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! Im still on vacation on the beautiful island of Maui, Hawaii, but I wanted to say hello "aloha!" and share this weeks latest roundup of all thats good and glorious in the wide and wonderful world of Springdom. Funny thing,...

How to integrate Hibernates Multitenant feature with Spring Data JPA in a Spring Boot application

For quite some time now, Hibernate has offered a Multitenant feature. It integrates nicely with Spring, but there is not much information about how to actually set it up, so I thought an example or two or three could help. There is already an excellent blog article, but it is a little dated and i...

Spring Authorization Server Is Going 1.0

We are excited to announce that weve started preparing for Spring Authorization Server 1.0 with plans to release the GA version in November 2022. It has been just over two years since we initially announced this new project, and we have come a long way since its initial development. The project h...

A Bootiful Podcast: RabbitMQ rabbit-herder Dan Carwin

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment Josh Long @starbuxman talks to a very busy rabbit-herder on the RabbitMQ team, Dan Carwin @dcarwin...

This Week in Spring - July 26th, 2022

Aloha, Spring fans! Im on vacation, reporting to you from the paradise-like island of Maui, Hawaii, and hoping that youre having a wonderful day! My family and I love Hawaii. Its brimming with beauty and serenity, and while the island of Maui, in the state of Hawaii, is very small, the islands ar...

A Bootiful Podcast: Spring Cloud and Spring Cloud Kubernetes contributor Ryan Baxter

Hi, Spring fans! In this episode, Josh Long @starbuxman talks to a person who knows more than most about the awesome implications of both the words "Spring" and "Cloud," Spring Cloud Kubernetes lead Ryan Baxter @ryanjbaxter...

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 19th, 2022

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This week Im trying to wind down some threads and take some vacation with my family. Its going to be an amazing time, indeed! But that doesnt stop the deluge of novelties and news in the wide world of Springdom, so weve got a...

Spring Security 5.8.0-M1 and 6.0.0-M6 are released

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I am pleased to announce that Spring Security 5.8.0-M1 and 6.0.0-M6 are available now. This release includes dependency upgrades, bug fixes, and enhancements. Here are a few noteworthy changes: Deferred SecurityContext lookup...

A Bootiful Podcast: Nate Schutta: The Thinking Person's Architect, My Friend, and Teammate

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment, Josh Long @starbuxman talks to his friend, teammate, and architect extraordinaire, Nate Schutta @ntschutta...

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...

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...

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?...

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: Spring Developer Advocate Dan Vega

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

Today is the last day to submit to the SpringOne 2022 Call For Papers!

Hi, Spring fans! This year, SpringOne is back in person, and being held in my hometown of San Francisco, California, December 6th-8th. Have you registered? and today June 28th, 2022 is the last day to submit to the Call For Papers! If you have a good idea or story you want to share, submit today!...

This Week in Spring - June 28th, 2022

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! Im writing this from the Big Apple, New York City! Im here for the SpringOne Tour 2022 NYC event. This is my first time back in New York City since before the pandemic and it has been so much fun. Ive been catching up with...

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...

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...

This Week in Spring - June 21st, 2022

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! How are you? Its been a hot minute since we last chatted. I was in Germany this time last week. Now, Im back in beautiful San Francisco. Today the weather will climb to a monumental 84 F! Thats very unusual, for any time of t...

Spring Data MongoDB SpEL Expression Injection Vulnerability (CVE-2022-22980)

Updates 06-20 CVE-2022-22980 is published 06-20 Spring Data MongoDB 3.4.1 and 3.3.5 are available Table of Contents Overview Vulnerability Am I Impacted Status Suggested Workarounds Overview We would like to announce that we have released Spring Data MongoDB 3.4.1 and 3.3.5 to address the followi...