Josh Long

Josh Long

Josh (@starbuxman) is the Spring Developer Advocate at Pivotal and a Java Champion. He's host of "A Bootiful Podcast" (https://soundcloud.com/a-bootiful-podcast), host of the "Spring Tips Videos" (http://bit.ly/spring-tips-playlist), co-author of 6+ books (http://joshlong.com/books.html), and instructor on 8+ Livelessons Training Videos (http://joshlong.com/livelessons.html)

Recent Blog posts by Josh Long

This Week in Spring - March 26th, 2024

Engineering | March 26, 2024 | ...
Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! Sam Brannen shares some good news: a null-safe Index operator for the Spring Expression Language (SpEL) is coming to Spring Framework 6.2! This is interesting, and a nice application of AI (do I even need to spell out "artificial intelligence" anymore?): localize applications with Spring AI this is a neat guide by community member Wim Deblauwe over on InfoQ: A Practical Guide to Building an API Back End with Spring Boot - version 2 James Ward, founder of the WebJars project and a legend in his own right, invites folks to…

This Week in Spring - March 19th, 2024

Engineering | March 19, 2024 | ...
Hi, Spring fans! And happy Java 22 release day to those who celebrate! I just put out a huge blog detailing many of the exciting new features in Java 22. Check it out! As usual, we've got a packed roundup to get through this week so let's dive right into it! the Spring Authorization Server 1.3.0-M3 is available! the Token Exchange Support in Spring Security 6.3.0-M3 the Spring Authorization Server 1.2.3, 1.1.6, and 1.0.6 are available now and include fixes for CVE-22258 Spring for Apache Kafka 3.0.15, 3.1.3, and 3.2.0-M2 are available now Spring for Apache Pulsar 1.0.4 are available now Spring…

Hello, Java 22!

Engineering | March 19, 2024 | ...
update I've since published a Spring Tips video on this very topic! If you'd prefer, you could watch that instead. Hi, Spring fans! Happy Java 22 release day, to those who celebrate! Did you get the bits already? Go, go, go! Java 22 is a significant improvement that I think is a worthy upgrade for everyone. There are some big, final released features, like Project Panama, and a slew of even-better preview features. I couldn't hope to cover them all, but I did want to touch on a few of my favorites. We're going to touch on a number of features. The code, if you want to follow along at home, is…

This Week in Spring - March 12th, 2024

Engineering | March 13, 2024 | ...
Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! And what a week it's going to be! Do this first: we need your help! Please answer some questions in our State of Spring survey! Join me for a look at the latest-and-greatest, chronicling how I got started with Spring Boot in 2024! Spring AI 0.8.1, with new support for Google's Gemini, Mistral AI, QDrant vector store, and improvements across the board, has been released!. Also: it should work with AOT! (let us know if it doesn't!) Cristian Schuszter sat down with me for a discussion about CERN, what they do, their use of…

Bootiful Spring Boot in 2024 (part 1)

Engineering | March 11, 2024 | ...
NB: the code is here on my Github account: github.com/joshlong/bootiful-spring-boot-2024-blog. Hi, Spring fans! I'm Josh Long, and I work on the Spring team. I'm excited to be keynoting and giving a talk at Microsoft's JDConf this year. I'm a Kotlin GDE and a Java Champion, and I'm of the opinion that there's never been a better time to be a Java and Spring Boot developer. I say that fully aware of where we stand in the span of things today. It's been 21+ years since the earliest releases of the Spring Framework and 11+ years since the earliest releases of Spring Boot. This year marks 20 years…

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