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, I talked to Spring Cloud Services and security guru Daniel Garnier-Moiroux about the nascent world and support in Spring Security of Passkeys.
• Spring Modulith 1.0.7 and 1.1.4 have been released! This introduces an updated ArchUnit 1.1.1 release, which in turn includes a fix to now support the new fat .jar format of Spring Boot. Spring Modulith applications that were using the runtime, actuator, and observability modules had been affected and should now properly work.
• I liked this post titled, Advanced Practices in Spring Boot: Building a Modular Application with Docker, Zipkin, and 100% Code Coverage.
• There’s a very interesting thread by Java community luminaries Simon Martinelli and Gunnar Morling about the pros and cons of using two-phase commit (2PC), as well as a discussion of some alternatives. Very good, even if it’s not specific to Spring, per se. I say this as the person who contributed the XA support for Spring Boot (close to a decade ago) and who avoids XA at all costs these days.
• Want a very detailed discussion of all things cloud native? Check out this discussion I had with Thomas Vitale to promote his new book Cloud Native Spring in Action. I endorsed the book, and was excited to talk to him in this interview. Check it out! We get really into the weeds.
• Good news from Abel Salgado Romero: the Asciidoclet, which lets you write Javadoc using Asciidoctor, is back!
• Nice, quick LinkedIn post from Spring Cloud lead Spencer Gibb on handling errors in Spring Cloud Gateway’s MVC routes.
• Spring Data and Neo4j legend Michael Hunger has a nice recap of the recent Google Cloud Next event (where I did a keynote, showcasing Spring AI and Spring AI’s support for Gemini, Spring Boot, virtual threads, and GraalVM)](<https://medium.com/@mesirii/google-cloud-next-recap-from-a-genai-and-databases-perspective-e0bce24b4535&gt;).