I love Spring AI. It’s an amazing project designed to bring the patterns and practices of AI engineering to the Spring Boot developer. It’s got clean idiomatic abstractions that’ll make any Sring developer feel right at home, and it has a ton of integrations with all manner of different vector stores, embedding models, transcription models, image modes, and chat models. The new release, m4, builds upon Spring Boot 3.4 and adds a ton of new features. As usual, I can’t hope to look at all the new features, but the release notes do an exquisite job. there’s new Amazon Bedrock Convertse support…
And now we’re back where we started: Spring Boot 3.4! This release is what pulls everything together. When you look at Spring Boot, remember that it normalizes the integration of all the projects it assembles and tries, wherever possible, to smooth out whatever integration issues might arise from using those projects together. In addition, it provides facilities that benefit users of all those other frameworks. Case in point: when we introduced GraalVM native image support in Spring Framework 6 and Spring Boot 3, it was delivered in three tranches. One: a component model, lifecycle, and core…
The new release of Spring Batch 5.2 has a ton of features!
Spring Batch is a compelling way to handle large but finite sequential data access. Think: reading from an SQL database and writing to a CSV, or reading from an FTP server and writing out an analysis of a MongoDB - batch processing. You know what this is. Half the job (pardon the pun!) is the integration of various sources of data and multiple sinks of data. The other aspect, as you can imagine with workloads that take a long time and could fail, is maintaining durable and extensive metadata related to each batch job’s run. Again, I…
The release announcement blog does a good job highlighting some of the many features in Spring Data 2024.1. Remember: Spring Data is an umbrella project, aggregating modules supporting, among other things, Couchbase, Redis, MongoDB, JDBC, R2DBC, Neo4J, Apache Cassandra, and countless other data stores.
It’s the easiest way to connect your data stores to your applications.
And indeed, we could write a small book with all the new features here! Here are some of the features that caught my eye. A new Repository fragments SPI lets any arbitrary .jar on the classpath, or indeed code in another…
The Spring Framework 6.2 release notes provide a much more detailed look at all the new features. I won’t rehash all of them here, but here are some of the features that caught my eye: Improved generic type safety in auto wiring sorting. Smarter, more optimized Spring Expression Language expressions. More efficient handling of resources in web applications, as well as in the WebJars support. Refinements to Spring’s JMS support and STOMP-over-WebSocket support. Improved testing support with the new HTMLUnit dependency, AssertJ-style MvcTester for Spring MVC tests, and much improved mocked beans…
Spring Integration 6.4 is your one-stop shop for all matters of enterprise application integration. So it supports numerous messaging and integration patterns and even more numerous adapters for all manner of technologies - SFTP, FTP, Redis, Apache Pulsar, Apache Kafka, JDBC, TCP/IP, etc. So, as you might have surmised, there’s just no way to keep up with them. The release notes do a pretty good job, so I’ll list some of my favorites. The remote file system inbound adapters now use the clearFetchedCache() method to remove references from the cache for unprocessed remote files. The Spring…
When Spring Boot first came out, I would tell people at talks that Spring Boot is like pair programming with the Spring team. It provided the convention-over-configuration to allow you to stand up infrastructure and get something going quickly. But it didn’t provide much architectural guidance. No "rails," as it were, regarding how you structured your application. And this was OK, I think, since Spring Boot isn’t a one-trick pony. You can use it for CLIs, monoliths, web applications, batch jobs, streaming and integration processors, microservices, GRPC services, Kubernetes operators, etc…
Spring Security 6.4.1 is your one-stop shop for authenticated and authorized items, and this release is a doozie! The release notes brim with the possibilities! The release notes are a lie! I mean, they’re not a lie. They just don’t do a good job of capturing and conveying how awesome this release is. There are more user-facing toys in this release than in many previous releases. This might be my favorite Spring Security release since at least it sprouted a Java configuration DSL! Look at those release notes. See those puny sections on Passkeys and One-Time Token Login? Yah. That’s the lie…
Hi, Spring fans! Happy Spring Boot 3.4.0 release day to those who celebrate! Today I'm joined by both Terence Lee, from Heroku, and my friend DaShaun Carter, and we talk about platforms, buildpacks, and more. #heroku #paas #buildpacks,
Hi, Spring fans! How are you? Can you believe we're already staring at the end of the month? It's that time of the year when we see new releases, and the new releases reflect that frenzy! Soon: Spring Boot 3.4.0! Are you updated? Make sure you're updated! Remember: Spring projects leave open source support after a year. So, roughly, when Spring Boot 3.4.0 drops, Spring Boot 3.2.0 and earlier won't be supported anymore. If you want to know where you stand, check the support windows on the various projects' pages Spring Framework 6.2.0 available now! This foundational piece kicks off our…
