Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! In this installment, Josh Long talks to Richard North (@whichrich) and Sergei Egorov (@bsideup) about Testcontainers, their new company AtomicJar, and software licensing, among other things.

Hi, Spring fans, and welcome to another riveting roundup of all the news that's fit to reprint in the Java and Spring ecosystems, with apologies, as always, to The Times. We're a week away from SpringOne 2021, our annual, free, and utterly online tentpole conference featuring hundreds of hours of amazing technical content from speakers all around the world and tens of thousands of attendees with whom to partake in the festivities. Do not miss this! I'll be there!

I get so excited in the leadup to SpringOne each year, and this year doubly so! First, there's the usual monumental scope of the whole thing, which always gets me. I also just got my first (of hopefully many) negative COVID-19 tests a few days ago, after three weeks of convalescence. Huzzah! I'm still taking it easy, trying to make sure I stay on the good side of the hospital doors, and that I don't relapse or incur any of the possible repercussions of COVID post-recovery. All that to say that…

or: How To Build a Mental Framework for Spring Framework

EDIT: There's a great comment below that mentions that the original title, Structuring Spring Boot Applications, is a bit misleading, in that the blog doesn't intend to talk about how to organize types and packages, and instead thinks about how Spring interacts with the objects in your code. The next paragraph sought to clarify that point but apparently fell short. Anyway, I've changed it, which unfortunately will break earlier links to it. I'm sorry for both the poor title and the now two days of broken links. I hope it's useful for…

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment, Josh Long (@starbuxman) talks to Microsoft's Rome Li (@akalirong) on his work supporting Microsoft Azure from IntelliJ, Visual Studio, Maven, Eclipse, and Visual Studio Code.

We are very excited to announce that Spring Authorization Server has officially moved out of experimental status and into the Spring project’s portfolio!

This move coincides with this week’s 0.2.0 release, which is the first officially supported production-ready version backed by our new support policy.

Since announcing the Spring Authorization Server in April 2020, the implemented features provide support for a large portion of the OAuth 2.1 Authorization Framework and modest support for OpenID Connect 1.0. However, as we move onto the next phase of development, our focus changes to advancing…

Hi, Spring fans! How're you doing? I'm alright. I've been recuperating from a COVID-19 infection. Today was the first day in a while that I woke up and wasn't short of breath. Most days, I've woken up, hacked a few wads of phlegm into the toilet, and then my breathing was fine. But today I woke up and wasn't short of breath in the first place. (I still hacked a few wads of phlegm). Thank goodness for vaccines, or I expect my experience of this virus would've been much worse as a lifelong asthmatic. Things are looking up!

And then, as if my fortunes couldn't get any better, I got to compiling this week's roundup and there's a ton of great…

Hi, Spring fans! In this episode, Josh Long (@starbuxman) talks to Neo4j CEO and Spring Data cofounder Emil Eifrem (@emileifrem) .

Hi, Spring fans! How're you doing? I hope you're doing well. You know, I've been thinking a lot about how to retain that zen-like peace that comes with a vacation spent on the beach. I got back from Hawaii eight days ago and I found it to be so very beautiful. Nature really sold it for me; the fresh air is everything. If you don't have ready access to nature - if you, like me, are in a giant city with the ongoing sound of car horns ("klaxons"), fire engines, traffic, and everything else that accompanies any big city - then may I invite you to breathe with me?

Just sit still for 30 seconds…

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment Josh Long talks to Microsoft's Sean Li on Azure, Spring Boot, Azure Spring Cloud, Spring integrations and more.