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 21st, 2023

Engineering | March 21, 2023 | ...
Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another rip roaring installment of This Week in Spring! It's March 21st and today they announced Java 20! It's an exciting time to be a Java developer. Java 20, of course, is just another amazing installment before Java 21, which comes out in six short months, including Project Loom. And, of course, Spring Framework looks set to provide integrations with it in Spring Framework 6.1. It's an amazing time to be a Java and Spring Boot developer! In my latest installment of Spring Tips, I look Vaadin Flow and Spring Boot 3 I did a video introducing Spring Boot 3 for the…

Spring Tips: Vaadin Flow and Spring Boot 3

Engineering | March 20, 2023 | ...
Hi, Spring fans! In this installment, we'll look at the fantastic Vaadin Flow library, which has recently been updated for Spring Boot 3, and how it can help you be happier. the code is available, as usual, here this episode features special guest Marcus Hellberg, VP developer relations from Vaadin, and my colleague Tiffany Jernigan NO DEVELOPER ADVOCATES WERE HARMED IN THE MAKING OF THIS VIDEO

A Bootiful Podcast: Spring Batch lead Mahmoud Ben Hassine on the latest and greatest in 2023

Engineering | March 16, 2023 | ...
Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of A Bootiful Podcast! In this installment, Josh Long (@starbuxman) talks to Spring Batch lead Mahmoud Ben Hassine (@FMBENHASSINE) about the latest and greatest in Spring Batch. notes Submit your talk to SpringOne@Explore, being held August 21-24, 2023, in lovely Las Vegas, Nevada! I wrote an e-book looking at how to do AOT processing with Spring Boot 3 and GraalVM. It's free - and a fairly quick read - so get it while you can! I streamed this interview with Mahmoud live on my channel - you can watch it there, too, if you prefer I wrote a blog…

Kotlin DSLs in the world of Springdom

Engineering | March 16, 2023 | ...
Kotlin is a beautiful language that makes it trivial to take old Java libraries and make them much more concise, just by virtue of the Kotlin syntax itself. It shines, however, when you write DSLs. Here's some inside baseball for you: the Spring teams do their level-headed best to be cohesive, to align on core themes, and to make Spring better than the sum of its parts. You see this in every major release: XML namespaces in Spring Framework 2.0. Java Config in 3.0. Conditionals and autoconfiguration when Spring Boot 1.0 first shipped alongside Spring Framework 4.0. Reactive programming with…

This Week in Spring - March 14th, 2023

Engineering | March 14, 2023 | ...
Hi, Spring fans! Happy Pi (π) day! And, welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! It's pouring cats and dogs here in San Francisco! The news is talking about atmospheric rivers; I don't know what that means but I don't know that I want to find out. Anyway, all that to say: I'm glad as always for an opportunity to stay indoors and learn. We've got a lot to review this week so let's dive right into it! I did a video for our friends at Jetbrains on the IntelliJ IDEA Youtube channel and people seem to like it. Perhaps you will too? Bootiful Spring Boot 3 - YouTube In it, I look at…

The SpringOne@Explore Calls for Paper is Open!

News | March 08, 2023 | ...
Hi, Spring fans! The Spring community is everything. Without your voice, there is no Spring. And we love to hear from you. Make your voice heard and submit a talk for the SpringOne@Explore conference being held in tandem with VMWare Explore in Las Vegas August 21st to 24th, 2023. See you in Vegas!

This Week in Spring - March 7th, 2023

Engineering | March 07, 2023 | ...
Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! It's an amazing week, and this week we've got a lot to look at. Let's dive right into it. Spring Cloud Function for Azure Function Spring Data 2022.0.3 and 2021.2.9 released Spring R2DBC for Reactive Relational Databases in Reactive Programming | Gökhan Ayrancıoğlu - Software Engineer, Blogger I'll be joining Mark Thomas, legendary contributor to Apache Tomcat, live at 9am here . Join us, bring your questions, etc. JRebel has a nice look at the New Features in Spring Framework 6 | JRebel by Perforce Authenticating Users…

This Week in Spring - February 28th, 2023

Engineering | February 28, 2023 | ...
Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! I'm writing this installment from a hotel room in Dallas, Texas, in the USA. Last night I had the privilege of hanging out with some of my friends from the local Java scene. Today I meet with customers. It's going to be a nice few days indeed. Spring Authorization Server 1.0.1 and 0.4.1 available now Spring Authorization Server 1.1.0-M1 available now Spring Boot 2.7.9 available now Spring Boot 3.1.0-M1 available now Did you see this amazing video on Spring Framework 6: Infrastructure Themes by Spring cofounder and Spring…

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