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 - September 23rd, 2025

Engineering | September 23, 2025 | ...
Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! I'm preparing my talks for several amazing shows including: Commit Your Code conference in Plano, Texas (starting tomorrow); Dev2Next in Colorado; Devoxx Belgium in Antwerp, Belgium; and CloudFoundry Days in Germany. So much good stuff comin' up! And so much good stuff in the community this week, as well, so let's dive right into it! I love this! One of my favorite new features in Spring Framework 7 is the new HTTP Service Clients there's so much good stuff coming in Spring AI 1.0.2 and improved MCP support Spring…

This Week in Spring - September 16th, 2025

Engineering | September 16, 2025 | ...
Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another extra special installment of This Week in Spring, wherein we celebrate a very auspicious day indeed: the release of Java 25 and GraalVM 25! That's right: an incredible new iteration of the JVM has just dropped and with it come a ton of features! Let's go through some of my favorites. One nicety is the new Module import declarations - import all the packages in a given module with a new import variant. (Does not require importer be in a module). So now you could do: import module java.base; to get most of the core JDK types in your program in a single line…

This Week in Spring - September 9th, 2025

Engineering | September 09, 2025 | ...
Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! I am home, ensconced in my studio here in somewhat sunny San Francisco, California, relaxing and trying to catch up on stuff I missed. As always, there's a ton! So let's dive right into it. Some of the amazing features that were in Spring Retry and Spring Cloud have now been refined, enhanced, augmented, and put into the core Spring Framework. Meet the new resilience features - @ConcurrencyLimit, @Retryable, and RetryTemplate - in Spring Framework! the new Spring AI 1.1.0-M1 is now available! Huzzah! This release features…

This Week in Spring - September 2nd, 2025

Engineering | September 02, 2025 | ...
Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! I'm in Frankfurt, awaiting my flight to the Java-tastic Javazone 2025 event where I'll be joined by the legendary James Ward to deliver an AI-focused look at the latest-and-greatest in Spring! And I'm still recovering from the delirious deluge that was SpringOne 2025! So much to do, and so little time in which to do it. Oh well let's dive right into it! in last week's installment of A Bootiful Podcast, I talked to JobRunr founder Ronald Dehuysser As always, I'm loving Rod Johnson's videos looking at comparing how to build…

This Week in Spring - August 26th, 2025

Engineering | August 26, 2025 | ...
Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! I'm writing this from the floor of SpringOne, live from lovely Las Vegas! As you can imagine, I've got to get back into it, so we'll make this one a quick one. And if you're here, be sure to say "hi"! In last week's A Bootiful Podcast, I talked to Andrey Belyaev, product manager for IntelliJ IDEA Good news everybody! Spring Boot 4.0.0.M2 is available Spring Batch 6.0.0.M2 is available now Spring Authorization Server 2.0.0 M2, 1.5.2, and 1.4.5 available now Spring Modulith 2.0 M2, 1.4.3, and 1.3.9 released Loiane Groner has…

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