Hi Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! The title says in Spring, but here in the northern hemisphere, it's clearly the middle of summer. Hot! I'm sitting here on my laptop on a warm summer day, and my laptop is indeed hot because I've spent so much time outside learning about the latest and greatest in the wild and wonderful Spring ecosystem. Let's dive into it before the laptop gets hotter than a Scala compilation!

• Neat! Check out the even more intelligent experience for people using the Spring Tools (such as with Visual Studio Code or Eclipse): a new Spring Tools MCP server!
• Hey everybody! I'll be doing a webinar for JetBrains on what's new in JetBrains IntelliJ IDEA to support Spring developers
• Speaking of JetBrains, I was on the JetBrains channel doing an interview on the Marco Show
• This is super cool to see talked about: did you know Tanzu, where most of the Spring team resides, also ships SLSA Level 3-compliant dependencies? Read this amazing post from Tanzu general manager Purnima Padmanabhan for more!
• An oldie but a goodie, unearthed from a recent discussion on dynamic multi-tenancy with Spring Boot
• Another amazing post from Craig Walls on visualizing Spring AI Alibaba workflow graphs
• I love this latest post from our friend Craig Walls looking at how to persist Spring AI with ChatMemory and JDBC
• Another amazing post from Craig Walls, this one on three new ways to persist ChatMemory with Spring AI
• In last week's installment of A Bootiful Podcast, I had the privilege of talking to Java Developer Advocate Billy Korando about the latest and greatest in the forthcoming Java 27
• I did a video looking at the latest and greatest in Spring Batch in Spring Boot 4.1. Namely, I looked at the support for using MongoDB-backed repositories with Spring Batch
• I liked this latest installment of Spring Boot full course fundamentals, this one looking at how to use Hibernate
• I loved this new project from my friend Brian Sam-Boden proposing a new in-memory vector search engine that has an easy out-of-the-box integration for Spring AI