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Happy Monday and welcome to another edition of the newsletter. I'm writing this on a Sunday as I'm in the airport heading out to Charleston, SC to visit a customer. One of the many perks of my job is that i get to travel to conferences and customers all around the world. Customers offer an opportunity to get in the room with the developers using various projects in the Spring ecosystem.
Happy Monday and welcome to another edition of the newsletter. It's hard to believe that we will flip the calendars to May later this week, but I am all for it. The weather is starting to turn the corner, and I am able to get outside and enjoy the sunshine. I don't know about you, but I work from my basement and I feel like I have been "locked up" for the winter, and it's definitely done a number on me mentally.
Happy Monday and welcome to another edition of the newsletter! Last week, I tackled an RSS feed issue through good old-fashioned debugging rather than defaulting to AI. After a few minutes of investigation, I discovered that my feed plugin had a default limit on the number of posts to include. With a quick configuration update, the feed was back in business. I've also added a feed link to the blog home page for those who weren't aware of this option.
Happy Monday and welcome to another edition of The Beehive! This week is particularly exciting as I'll be speaking at Microsoft's JDConf 2025 with two sessions – one live for our night owl friends in the Asia-Pacific region, and another on-demand covering the latest Spring innovations.
Happy Monday! This week's edition is packed with AI advancements and Java updates. Learn how to build a custom MCP server from scratch with Spring AI to connect your tools to models like Claude, and hear about MCP's momentum with OpenAI's support. We'll also share highlights from our chat with Billy Korando about exciting JDK 24 features, and dive into the fun (and impressive results) of OpenAI's new built-in image generator in ChatGPT.