Hi, Spring fans! In this installment I talk to the legendary Dan Haywood, contributor to the Apache Causeway project.

Hi, Spring fans, and greetings from the island of St. Barths! Salut depuis l'île de Saint-Barthélemy!

I'm on a bit of PTO and have been bouncing around from one beach to another with my family. I just landed on a winning combination for a beach: warm water, a restaurant/bar, and some for-pay seats with shade. There are precisely three things to do in such a cherished spot: use it as a launchpad for occasional dips in the sea, read, and sleep—usually in that order!

And you know what I've been reading? The wild and wacky antics of the Spring community, of course!

There's a ton of exciting news…

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment I talk to the good and the great Dr. Dave Syer about the (experimental!) new Spring gRPC project!

Hi, Spring fans, and happy new year! It's been another super seven days since we last spoke and, as always, there's a lot to cover so let's dive right into it!

• A long time in coming, but it's finally here! Hello DCO, Goodbye CLA: Simplifying Contributions to Spring
• the Spring AI hits just keep on coming! Spring AI MCP 0.4.0 (Milestone) Released
• In last week's installment of A Bootiful Podcast, I talk to legendary technologist Dez Blanchfield
• Our very own Michelle Sebek has a nice blog on letting Tanzu, a cloud platform from Broadcom, the company where a good many of the Spring teanm work, do the heavy lifting
• Dhaval Shah has a nice blog looking at virtual threads in Java
• I am a big fan of workflow engines and of Cornelia Davis and of Spring Boot, …

Hi, Spring fans! Happy happy = new Year(2025)! It's a new year and a new opportunity! In this episode I talk to my friend and legendary technologist Dez Blanchfield!

Hi Spring fans! Happy New Year! And welcome to another installment of This Year in Spring!

The year that was...

I write this edition from a desk overlooking the beautiful jungle of Martinique, a beautiful island nation in the French Caribbean. I’m sipping some rhum martinique, enjoying the semi-sweltering heat, and thinking about the year that's been 2024. Every year at this time, since 2011, I write this year in spring, an abbreviated look at the year from the rearview mirror.

So many amazing things happened this year. It’s sort of difficult to put my finger on any one thing. But, I shall try…

Hi, Spring fans! (and happy holidays!) in this installment I talk to Intact's Luke Shannon about their use of Spring, developer portals, and so much more.

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…

Hi, Spring fans! In today's installment I talk to industry legend K. Siva Prasad Reddy (@sivalabs). You've probably read one of his blogs. I know I have!

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! As I write this I am in the southern hemisphere (it's summer down here!), in Brisbane, waiting to board a plane for Sydney. It's been a ton of fun!

• I did a video looking at the latest-and-greatest in Spring Framework 6.2 - check it out!
• I did another video looking at the latest-and-greatest in Spring Data 2024.1
• in last week's installment of A Bootiful Podcast, I talk to Spring Security lead Rob Winch
• to learn more about Spring AI's new audio features, check out this blog by Christian Tzolov
• Spring Tools 4.27.0 has been released
• this is an interesting read from Karanbir Singh on Spring Boot 3.4x's OAuth2 client using RestClient
• WireMock now has an official Spring Boot integration
• this video by BellSoft's Catherine Edelveis on using CRaC with Spring Boot…