This Week in Spring - July 4th, 2023

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This week I am in sweltering, but lovely, Singapore, where I'm meeting with customers and just finished presenting at the SpringOne Tour Singapore stop. If you're in Singapore, I hope you'll join me tonight for Bootiful Sprin...

Building intelligent Spring Apps with Azure OpenAI

Note from Josh: Hi, Spring fans! I wanted to cross post this article looking at using Spring and Azure OpenAI from Microsoft's Sean Li because it's interesting: enjoy! Integrating cutting-edge artificial intelligence into apps has become a new trend in today's technological landscape. Spring is t...

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!...

Using Spring for GraphQL with Spring Data Neo4j

Introduction This is a guest blog post by Gerrit Meier from Neo4j who maintains the Spring Data Neo4j module. A few weeks ago version 1.2.0 of Spring for GraphQL was released with a bunch of new features. This also includes even better integration with Spring Data modules. Motivated by those...

This Week in Spring - June 27th, 2023

Hi Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This week I am in Seoul talking to developers about the latest-and-greatest in Spring Boot 3! There's so much great stuff coming, and so much great stuff already. There are a few things I'm super excited about. First, yesterda...

Improved Testcontainers Support in Spring Boot 3.1

There's been support for Testcontainers in Spring Boot for some time now, and Spring Boot 3.1 improves it further. But first, let's take a look at what Testcontainers is and how it's usually used. Testcontainers is an open source framework for providing throwaway, lightweight instances of...

A Bootiful Podcast: Micrometer lead Tommy Ludwig

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment, Josh Long talks to Micrometer lead Tommy Ludwig, recorded from beautiful Barcelona, Spain during the fabulous Spring I/O event!...

Docker Compose Support in Spring Boot 3.1

Docker Compose support in Spring Boot 3.1 builds on top of the ConnectionDetails abstraction, which we've featured in a separate blog post. If you haven't already read it, please do so before reading this post. Docker Compose "is a tool for defining and running multi-container Docker applications...

This Week in Spring - June 20th, 2023

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! I'm in Sydney, Australia, talking to customers, koalas, kangaroos, and whoever else will listen! I'll be doing a live presentation, tonight at the Microsoft Reactor here in Sydney. Register now and come join me! As usual, we'...

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: Angular Google Developer Expert Santosh Yadav

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment Josh Long @coffesoftware talks to Angular Google Developer Expert Santosh Yadav @santoshyadavdev about the latest and greatest in the JavaScript and Angular ecosystem...

This Week in Spring - June 13th, 2023

This Month in Spring - June 13th, 2023 Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! I am in beautiful Taipei, eating delicious food and meeting amazing people in the sweltering weather. How're you doin'? I've got to join a meeting, so I'll make this quick. One quick thi...

A Bootiful Podcast: Microsoft’s Sean Li on Azure and Spring Boot

Hi, Spring fans! In this relatively quick installment, recorded live from the lovely Spring I/O 2023, Josh Long talks to Microsoft's Sean Li about some of the latest and greatest in the Azure ecosystem for Spring developers...

Securing Spring Boot Applications With SSL

Secure Sockets Layer SSL and Transport Layer Security TLS are key components of securing communications between systems in a layered or service-oriented architecture. Spring Boot applications in such an architecture often accept incoming network connections or create outgoing connections, and...

This Week in Spring - June 6th, 2023

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! And what an insane week it's been! Long story short, I've spent 10-12 hours a day over the last five days migrating a dozen differnet applications and services from one GKE cluster to another, taking the time to update things...

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...

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...

A Bootiful Podcast: Java Developer Advocate Billy Korando on the latest and greatest in Java

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment, Josh Long @starbuxman talks to Java Developer Advocate Billy Korando, recorded live from the amazing Spring I/O show in Barcelona, Spain!...

Spring Authorization Server is on Spring Initializr!

Today, I'm excited to announce that you have a new superpower: creating applications with Spring Authorization Server on Spring Initializr! That's right, it's time to begin your OAuth2 journey and become the hero you always knew you could be! In this post, I'll explain how you can get the most fr...

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...

This Week in Spring - May 23rd, 2023

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! It's May 23rd and, famously, nothing major has happened in the last week OH WAIT WE RELEASED SPRING BOOT 3.1! Have you checked it out yet? It's dope. I did a Spring Tips installment looking at some of its features here that y...

A Bootiful Podcast: Grubhub's Josh Burns on Kotlin, Spring Boot, and more

We're crossing the streams, again! This time Josh Long talks to Grubhub's John Burns twitter: @wakingrufus mastodon: @[email protected] about dogfooding human food, Grubhub's tech stack, and more...

Spring Tips: go fast with Spring Boot 3.1

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment, Josh Long @coffeesoftware looks at how the new Spring Boot 3.1 release delivers incredible efficiencies for both developers and machines. Java springboot Microservices Testcontainers GraalVM Docker DockerCompose Devtools SSL...

This Week in Spring - May 16th 2023

My friends, Spring Boot 3.1 is nearly upon us! It drops on 18 May, in just a few short days! There are a ton of amazing features in this new release and I hope you're already trying it out you know where. Here are some of my favorite features: Built in Docker Compose support - Have a...

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...

A Bootiful Podcast: James Ward, Kotlin Product Manager at Google

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment Josh Long talks to James Ward, Kotlin Product Manager at Google...

This Week in Spring - May 9th, 2023

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another wonderful, fancyful installment of This Week in Spring! I was just at the first Devoxx GR, in the sunny mediterranean city of Athens, Greece. Uh, yah, this was a good'un. If you can get to it, you should. Don't miss next year's installment if you missed this on...

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 - May 2, 20223

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! You realize it's already May, 2023? Time's flying, way too quickly! I just got back from Bangalore, India, where I spoke at the amazing Great International Developer Summit, one of the all time best shows ever, and now I'm...

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 25th, 2023

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! How are you? I'm en route to Bangalore, India, via Frankfurt, for the Developer Summit 2023 edition. It's going to be a ton of fun, and I hope you won't miss it! para Spring Boot 3.1.0-RC1 available now One of the most exciti...

A Bootiful Podcast: Gradle Developer Advocate, Java Champion, and legend Trisha Gee

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment, Java Champion and legend Trisha Gee @trishagee rejoins the show to talk about Gradle, developer productivity, and so much more...

Security Bypass With Wildcard Pattern Matching on Cloud Foundry

In Spring Boot versions 3.0.0 - 3.0.5, 2.7.0 - 2.7.10, 2.6.0 - 2.6.14, 2.5.0 - 2.5.14 and older unsupported versions, an application that is deployed to Cloud Foundry could be susceptible to a security bypass. Specifically, an application is vulnerable when all of the following are true: NOTE:...

This Week in Spring - April 18th, 2023

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This week, I just returned from Western Europe for Devoxx FR Paris and Kotlin Conf Amsterdam. I went home, saw my family, did some laundry, and then turned right back around to head to Chicago, Illinois, for a special joint...

Empty SecurityContext Is Not Properly Saved Upon Logout

In Spring Security, versions 5.7.x prior to 5.7.8, versions 5.8.x prior to 5.8.3, and versions 6.0.x prior to 6.0.3, the logout support does not properly clean the security context if using serialized versions. Additionally, it is not possible to explicitly save an empty security context to the...

A Bootiful Podcast: Sonatype's Steve Poole and Gradle's Justin Reock on Improving Developer Productivity without compromising on things like security

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of a Bootiful Podcast! In this installment, recorded at Devnexus in Atlanta, GA, I talk to newcomer to the show Steve Poole, from Sonatype, and Justin Reock, from Gradle, about improving developer productivity without comprising on things like...

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...

A Bootiful Podcast: José Paumard, Java Champion alumnus and Java legend, on Project Loom, Valhalla, and more, from Devnexus 2023!

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of A Bootiful Podcast. In this installment I'll talk to legendary Oracle Java Champion alumnus, Java advocate, professor emeritus, and all around amiable fellow José Paumard, recorded at the amazing Devnexus 2023 event! José's English-language Youtu...

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...

A Bootiful Podcast: Spring Integration lead Artem Bilan on the latest in Spring Integration 6

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment Josh Long @starbuxman talks to Spring Integration lead Artem Bilan @artembilan about the latest and greatest in Spring Integration. Spring Integration makes it easier to connect an increasingly larger ecosystem of disparate services and systems. SHOW NOTES: I...

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...

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...

Context Propagation with Project Reactor 2 - The bumpy road of Spring Cloud Sleuth

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 Spring Cloud Sleuth recently became Micrometer Tracing, part of the Micrometer project. Most of the tracing instrumentation is centered within Micrometer und...

This Week in Spring - March 28th, 202

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! I'm reporting to you from Los Angeles, where my family and I have gone for my daughter's spring break. We're going to survey some prospective colleges and we're going to Disneyland. Needless to say, I'm doubly glad to have al...

Context Propagation with Project Reactor 2 - The bumpy road of Spring Cloud Sleuth

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 Spring Cloud Sleuth recently became Micrometer Tracing, part of the Micrometer project. Most of the tracing instrumentation is centered within Micrometer und...

Context Propagation with Project Reactor 1 - The Basics

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 Spring Boot 3 and Spring Framework 6 brought us a unified and consistent way to enable Observability in applications that use Micrometer. The evolution from...

A Bootiful Podcast: Mark Thomas, Apache Tomcat contributor extraordinaire

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of A Bootiful Podcast! In this installment, Josh Long talks to longtime Apache Tomcat contributor extraordinaire Mark Thomas I wrote a free white paper on using Spring Boot 3 AOT and GraalVM. Learn the secrets to working with Spring Boot 3 and Graal...

Start from zero and scale to zero – Azure Spring Apps consumption plan

We are launching a new way to pay for Azure Spring Apps -- the consumption pricing plan. This plan is now in public preview so you can start creating and deploying apps today. This new plan is super-efficient because you can start from zero and scale to zero vCPU. You get more straightforward...

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...

This Week in Spring - March 21st, 2023

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another rip roaring installment of This Week in Spring! It's March 21st and today they announced Java 20! It's an exciting time to be a Java developer. Java 20, of course, is just another amazing installment before Java 21, which comes out in six short months, includin...