Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! And what a week it’s been! We’ve got around nine shopping days ’til Christmas, and the New Year is almost here! Things are moving so quickly and the Spring community is no exception! Let's dive into this week's wonderful roundup! This is a super interesting application of a design pattern with Spring AI’s dynamic tool selection, described by Christian Tzolov. Spring Tools 5.0 released. Spring Shell 4.0.0-M2 is out! In last week’s installment of A Bootiful Podcast, I talked to Spring legend Rossen Stoyanchev about API…

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of a Bootiful Podcast! In this installment I talk to the legendary Rossen Stoyanchev on API versioning, declarative interface clients, RestTestClients, and more!

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! I am in lovely New Jersey, the Garden State, as I write this and I spent most of the last week in New Orleans. It's been a busy week in the Spring community and beyond and so you know what that means? There's a ton of stuff to look into! Let's dive right into it! Spring gRPC 1.0.0 is now GA! Huzzah! Hooray! Want to learn more about the new release direct from the Spring team? Join them, live, for this webinar on the 11th. Good news, everybody, Spring Shell 4.0.0-M2 is available now!. Spring AI 1.1.1 is available now. I…

Hi, Spring fans! I'm so excited to chat with fellow Spring developer advocate Dan Vega about his new book, Fundamentals of Software Engineering

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring. By mistake, I inadvertently published older content in this installment, then tried to fix it and ended up re-publishing the same content. And, what's worse, I somehow ended up deleting the draft I had written for this installment — the one I intended to copy in to override the bad content. Ugh. A comedy of errors. Anyway, this is a lesson in why you should make sure you get enough sleep. And this is why I am now re-writing the same content again! So, without any further ado, here finally is this week's roundup! this is…

Hi, Spring fans! Happy Thanksgiving from me, and I am sure the entire Spring team, to you! We are, it should be clear, oh so very grateful.. thankful.. for you, the community. This week it is my great pleasure to chat with Spring community legend Simon Martinelli.

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another illustrious installment of This Week in Spring! It’s Thanksgiving week here in the United States. Thanksgiving is traditionally celebrated with friends and family every fourth Thursday of November, gathered around a table full of food and, usually, a giant stuffed turkey. When celebrated well, it’s a time to come together and revel in gratitude for life’s good fortunes. And so, in that spirit, my friends, I want to remind you — and I’m sure I can speak for the entire Spring team here, too! — that we are so grateful for you. The community is the most amazing…

Hi, Spring fans! Happy Spring Boot 4.0 release day! Make sure to get the bits on the Spring Initializr (you know - start.spring.io)! This release is packed with new features, a lot of which comes from Spring Framework 7. To help break it down for us this week, we’re joined by none other than the legendary Spring Framework contributor Sébastien Deleuze!

This Week in Spring - November 18th, 2025 Hi, Spring fans! I'm thrilled to be in New York City for an exciting week of joint presentations on Spring AI + Bedrock and Spring Boot with the legendary James Ward. First up: we'll present a workshop at the AI Native Dev Conf today, then speak at the Garden State JUG tonight, then deliver a talk tomorrow at the conference, and finally speak at the New York Java SIG tomorrow night. It might be cold out, but we're bringing the heat! You know who else is bringing the heat? The Spring team, of course! This past week saw Spring Framework 7 go GA, and with…

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment, I sit down with the legendary Bruce Eckel, who has probably forgotten more about programming languages than I will ever know, and whose book Thinking in Java helped launch me into a career.