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)

Blog posts by Josh Long

This Week in Spring - December 9th, 2025

Engineering | December 09, 2025 | ...

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!

This Week in Spring - December 2nd, 2025

Engineering | December 02, 2025 | ...

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 Week in Spring - Spring Boot 4 edition! - November 25th, 2025

Engineering | November 25, 2025 | ...

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…

A Bootiful Podcast: The legendary Sébastien Deleuze on all that's new and nice in Spring Framework 7

Engineering | November 20, 2025 | ...

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

Engineering | November 18, 2025 | ...

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 it a whole release train of new releases that will eventually culminate in Spring Boot 4. Once Spring Boot 4 is released, Spring AI, Spring Modulith, and Spring Cloud will all be able to release as well. Watch this space — spring.io/blog — for a ton of new releases this week culminating on the 20th with Spring Boot 4.0.0! (For more on what comes when, check out the Spring Calendar

This Week in Spring - November 10th, 2025

Engineering | November 10, 2025 | ...

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! As I write this I am preparing for a flight to North Carolina (first in flight!). This week's going to be busy, but next week even busier still! I'll be at AI By The Bay (in San Francisco), AI Native Dev Con (in NYC), and QCon SF (in SF). All in five days! It's going to be a ton of fun but I can't wait.

Why am I so busy? Because Spring's kind of a big thing and it should be and I want to share it. Which brings us to this week's roundup. So, without further ado, let's dive right into it!

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