Hi, Spring fans! In this installment we talk to Spring Security contributor and legend Josh Cummings

Hi, Spring fans! How're you doing this fantastic October afternoon? I'm on a train returning from Frankfurt, Germany, where I spoke at the Cloud Foundry Day Frankfurt event about how awesome it is to build an application with Spring Boot and Cloud Foundry. Yesterday I was in Antwerp, Belgium, and did two workshops, each of three hours duration. Now, I'm on my way back to Antwerp to return to Devoxx Belgium. I'll be doing a talk on Spring Boot 4; another joint talk with James Ward and the Spring AI leads Dr. Mark Pollack and Christian Tsolov; and a joint talk with GraalVM founder Thomas…

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment we talk to Spring tooling legend Dr. Kris De Volder on tooling, AI, and so much more.

Hi, Spring fans! As I write this I am about to board a flight for Colorado for the amazing Dev2Next conference! I'll be in Antwerp, Beglium for the amazing Devoxx event next week, and I'll be speaking at the Amsterdam JUG with James Ward on the Thursday after that, too! If you're around, be sure to say Hi!

• I looked at some of the amazing new resilience methods in Spring Framework 7
• here's a nice talk on how to continuously align and ugprade your Spring dependencies, recorded at this year's Spring IO 2025 event in beautiful Barcelona, Spain!
• I love this! Check out some of the prelimary details of the MCP Security community project for Spring AI
• for more on that, check out the Securing MCP Servers with Spring AI
• I love this blog called The State of HTTP Clients in Spring
• On last week's installment of A Bootiful Podcast, I talked Spring Batch lead Mahmoud Ben Hassine
• Interesting! Udemy has a course: …

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment we talk to the legendary lead of the Spring Batch project, Mahmoud Ben Hassine, about the latest-and-greatest in Spring Batch in the Spring Boot 4 generation.

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 Modulith 2.0 M3 released. This new release includes updated event publication repository implementations for JPA, Jackson 3 support, and so much more.
• in last week's installment of A Bootiful Podcast, I talked to the amazing Spring Cloud lead Spencer Gibb
• Spring Boot 3.4.10 is available now
• Spring Boot 3.5.6 available now
• Spring Boot 4.0.0 M3 available now
• Spring AI 1.0.2 is available now
• …

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment, we talk to the legendary lead of Spring Cloud and friend to the community, Spencer Gibb! This was recorded live from Las Vegas, NV, at the fantastic SpringOne 2025 event!

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…

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment, we talk to the general manager of Tanzu, the legendary Purnima Padmanabhan, about AI, the power of the platform, and more. Recorded live from SpringOne 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 significantly improved MCP SDK upgrades, including a streamable HTTP transport, HttpClient/WebClient support, transport context APIs, enhanced resource template filtering, and MCP-compliant protocol version headers. It also features the new MCP annotation component model support. And, obviously, there are integrations and…