This Week in Spring - September 3rd, 2024

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! It's September 3rd, and I'm still buzzing from the last week's SpringOne extravaganza! I'm tired but also buzzing. Last week was nuts. I'm super glad it happened, but I'm tired. And also buzzing. You know? Surely you don't. I hope not lol. It's confusing. I feel like I am still "on," like there's work to be done for SpringOne. But I think I also appreciate that it's in the rear view window and it's time to focus on what's ahead: Asia! This Friday, I head to Korea, then Japan, then India, and then (not yet confirmed) China. Pay attention to joshlong.com for details as they become clearer. I think, for example, that I'll be doing a Java User Group in Delhi, India. We've got a ton of cool stuff to look at this week, so let's dive right into it! In last week's installment of This Week in Spring, I talk to Tanzu and Spring legend Chris Sterling. I love this blog by the Spring team's own Sébastien Deleuze on CDS support and Project Leyden in Spring Framework. Craig Walls, author of the upcoming Spring AI In Action, just updated his source code to reflect some of Spring AI M2's new observability. Did I mention I'll be speaking in Korea? I am starting to read Stratopheric, too, and want to second Martin Hock's endorsement. Java language architect Brian Goetz does an amazing job looking at where we are, and where we're going, with Project Valhalla. Nice! htmx-spring-boot is now on the Spring Initializr. The new release of Spring Modulith supports nested modules! I loved this discussion with Tanzu CTO James Watters in which he discusses VMWare's "golden path." Have you checked out the JSPecify annotations - a new set of annotations to describe nullability semantics?