Hi Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! What a week it's been since we last talked. I was in Barcelona, Spain, for the amazing Spring I/O event there. It has become my favorite show, full stop. Just such an amazing experience. So many wonderful things going on there. So many amazing community members. So much joy. And a little sangria, being 100% honest. Then, after that, I went and spent a little time in a beautiful village south of Barcelona, then I went to the south of France for a little fun in the sun. Then I went to two cities in lovely Poland, where I was…

Hi Spring fans! In this installment we talk to the legendary Craig Walls, author of Spring In Action, Spring AI in Action, and more!

Hi, Spring fans! ¡Hola from Barcelona, Spain! I'm at the amazing Spring I/O event, hanging out with some of the amazing Spring ecosystem developers! Life is amazing here in the warm sun of springtime. There's a lot to look at this week, so let's dive right into it! Another nice tutorial on how to build microservices with Spring Boot I loved this new post looking at Spring Framework 7 and Spring Boot 4 over on InfoQ Interesting! A guide to internationalization in Spring Boot, by our friends at Baeldung. I really liked this post looking at how the enormous Aperro CAS system manages configuration…

Hi Spring fans! I was delighted to get a chance to sit and talk to my pal and Pivotal alum Mark Kropf about his efforts around orchestrating AI. This doesn’t have to do with the JVM or Spring, per se, but it’s an interesting discussion nonetheless.

Hi Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! It's April 7th, 2026, and I'm on the road! I started the journey for the amazing Voxxed Days Amsterdam show and am now winding my way through France. I visited Colmar, a beautiful city from which the animators on Disney's Beauty and the Beast drew some inspiration. Now I'm off to Lyon, to see some of my French colleagues and explore one of the centers of gastronomy in the world. Then, it's off to Paris, where I'll be speaking at the Java User Group this Thursday! If you're local, don't miss it (ne le ratez pas!) In the…

I had a wonderful chat with Java Developer Advocate Ana-Maria Mihalceanu about Java Flight Recorder, Project Babylon, Project Panama, and so many other exciting things in the Java ecosystem.

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another fun edition of This Week in Spring! I'm writing to you from beautiful Amsterdam ahead of the wonderful Voxxed Days Amsterdam event, and I'm really looking forward to it. If you're there, please come say hello! Also, be aware that I'll be speaking at the Paris JUG on the 9th, as well as at Devoxx France later in the month. Come say bonjour! And, of course, I am most looking forward to Spring I/O in beautiful Barcelona, Spain, at the middle of the month! We’ve got plenty to cover this week, so let’s jump right in! Spring Modulith 2.1 M4, 2.0.5, and 1.4.1…

Hi Spring, AI, Spring AI, security, and Spring Security fans! In this installment I talk to the legendary Daniel-Garnier Moiroux! #ai #mcp #security #java

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to yet another rip-roarin' installment of This Week in Spring. As usual, we've got a ton to look into, so let's dive right in! Happy 22nd birthday to Spring Framework, released this day 22 years ago! and of course, next week, 1 April 2026, marks 12 years since Spring Boot 1.0 came out! Spring Boot 4.1.0-M3 is available now, with new support for Spring gRPC, file rotation with Log4j, OpenTelemetry improvements, Spring Batch MongoDB support, SSL support for RabbitMQ streams, and AMQP 1.0 support in Spring AMQP! The latest versions of Spring AI and the MCP spec unlock…

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment, we talk to the legendary Java author, professor, and Java Champion Cay Horstmann, whom you might know from classics such as "Core Java." his web site And of course even the most cursory search will land you at his books... #javaone #java