Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring. As I write this, I am preparing for a trip to Rust, Germany, for one of the best Java conferences in Europe: JavaLand, along with its new companion event, DevLand. It should be fun. Will you be around? If so, say hi.

We have a lot to cover, so let's dive in.

• The Kotlin tutorial has been updated with information about Spring AI
• In last week's installment of A Bootiful Podcast, I had the privilege of talking to Neo4J developer advocate extraordinaire Jennifer Reif
• Want to secure your Spring Shell CLI-based applications? Check out this video I did on using Spring Security and OAuth device code grants
• Want to learn more about security? Check out this video looking at the new Spring Security 7
• In particular, if you want to learn about securing your Spring AI MCP agents, check out this video
• AWS is hosting a webinar on building Java AI agents with Spring AI
• Baeldung has a nice post on explainable LLM tool call reasoning with Spring AI
• Have you checked out the support for consuming Anthropic Skills from within a Spring AI application using the new Spring AI community Skills support? It becomes even more powerful when paired with the new SkillsJars project
• I also published a full video looking at Spring gRPC 1.0, including setup, building clients and services, observability, security, and more. Watch it here
• Migrating to modular monoliths when using Spring Modulith
• A nice roundup of agentic patterns