Model Context Protocol, or MCP, is arguably the most powerful innovation in AI integration to date, but sadly, its purpose and potential are largely misunderstood. So what's the best way to really ...

Spring is perhaps the best of the component-based frameworks that emerged at the turn of the 21st century. It vastly improves the way that developers write and deliver infrastructure code in ...

Logging in Java is a challenging task at the best of times. Whether it's the vast array of logging frameworks to choose from or the difficulty of configuring logging to balance reporting and ...

HTMX is a newer technology that takes plain old HTML and gives it extra powers like Ajax and DOM swaps. It’s included in my personal list of good ideas because it eliminates a whole realm of ...

Spring Boot 3 and Spring Framework 6, due in late 2022, will have built-in support for native Java. For Spring Framework 5.x and Spring Boot 2.x users, Spring Native is the way to go. Spring Native ...

Microservices are an opportunity to show where Java lags behind other languages. Reactive programming provides a concise DSL to express the movement of state and to write concurrent, multithreaded ...

Spring AI 2.0 brings the Java AI framework to a new baseline built for Spring Boot 4.x and Spring Framework 7. The release improves agentic app development with unified tool calling, progressive tool ...