This Week in Spring - December 17th, 2024

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of a Bootiful Podcast! It's the 17th of December, 2024! And you know what means? The end of the year is nearly upon us! I can't believe it. It's been a very long year indeed, but I'm happy to get on board a flight bound for San Francisco soon and wind down my year in the company of friends and family. I hope you will too. Let's dive right into this week's roundup!

• Spring Data 2024.1.1 and 2024.0.7 released
• the amazing K. Siva Prasad Reddy (SivaLabs) on A Bootiful Podcast
• Spring Framework 6.1.16 and 6.2.1 are available now
• Announcing Spring AI MCP: a Java SDK for the Model Context Protocol
• Introducing Spring AI Amazon Bedrock Nova Integratino via Converse API
• A nice blog by Michael Minella: Spring Support Updates
• this is an interesting comparison of performance and efficiency in a Spring application implemented using the reactive system and a Spring application implemented without reactive, and - importantly - without Java 21's virtual threads The author signalled to me on Twitter that he'd have a followup post looking at virtual threads, and I am quite keen on seeing that!
• Not strictly speaking related to Spring, but very interesting: this shows how to use Testcontainers and Docker Compose, both of which live at Docker (the company), together as one
• two reasons you may want to disable the Open Session in View filter in a Spring application (I think this is a good idea!)
• Nice! A micro frontends sample implementation of The Tractor Store built with Spring Boot + JTE, ESI, HTMX and Tailwind.