This Week in Spring - July 7th, 2026

Level up your Java code and explore what Spring can do for you.

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! We've got a lot to cover and I've got a plane to catch so let's go!

What's that over on Spring Initializr? It's JobRunr, that's what! My favorite distributed job execution engine has (finally!) landed on my second favorite place on the web (after production!): start.spring.io. Welcome, JobRunr!
I love Craig Walls' recent post on using more than one LLM with Spring AI
Nice article on using Spring for Apache Kafka with Kafka Streams' dead-letter queues
I really liked this talk from Moritz Halbritter, on the Spring Boot team, exploring how Spring Framework 7 and Spring Boot 4 help identify and eliminate null pointers
The Spring Cloud Contract has been an important tool for developers to ensure their services match a particular contract, and it's now transitioning to a new home at Stubborn.sh
In last week's installment of A Bootiful Podcast, I talked to Spring Framework and Spring AI contributor Sebastien Deleuze
Nice tutorial on the MCP annotations in Spring AI
I love this post introducing Spring AI
I love, as always, when vendors focus on their project or product in terms of how it can help the Spring community. Confluent, the fine folks behind Apache Kafka, are a great example of this
A nice video on type-safe property paths in Spring Data

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