1. Spring and Java
>> The Self-Building Agent: a LangChain4j Experiment [infoq.com]
A interesting reveral of the typical agent tutorial by pointed an LLM at the LangChain4j documentation and had it design an agent. Meta yes, and worth a quick read.
Also worth reading:
- >> To Cache or Not to Cache Virtual Threads [quarkus.io]
- >> Pairing In-Process and Hosted Embeddings for Java MCP Tool Development [inside.java]
- >> New Between-Quarters Security Updates for Java: What CSPUs Mean for Your Release Pipeline [foojay.io]
- >> Reverse Engineering with Hibernate 7.4 and IntelliJ IDEA [jetbrains.com]
- >> Writing a Thymeleaf component library [wimdeblauwe.com]
- >> Quality Outreach Heads-up – JDK 28: jlink cacerts plugin [inside.java]
- >> KotlinLLM is Going Open Source [jetbrains.com]
- >> RFC 9880 and the IoT Validation Problem [frankel.ch]
- >> AI Found the Bugs. Who’s Patching Your EOL Java Code? [foojay.io]
- >> Secure Your APIs: OAuth2 and JWT for Beginners [jetbrains.com]
Webinars and presentations:
- >> Episode 63 “AI Solutions with Spring AI 2.0” [I/O] [inside.java]
- >> A Bootiful Podcast: Java Developer Advocate Billy Korando on Java 27 and Beyond [spring.io]
- >> Spring Office Hours Podcast: S5E19 – Docker, Compose, Testcontainers, Oh My! [spring.io]
- >> Clean Architecture for Serverless: Business Logic You Can Take Anywhere [infoq.com]
Time to upgrade:
- >> Quarkus 3.37.4 and 3.33.3 [quarkus.io]
- >> GraalVM Community 25 Innovation 2 [github.com/graalvm]
- >> Zuul 4.1.3 and 4.1.2 [github.com/Netflix]
- >> Micronaut Core 5.0.7 [github.com/micronaut-projects]
2. Technical & Musings
>> The Orchestrator’s Tax [martinfowler.com]
Insight into multi-agent coding setups. Exploratory rather than prescriptive, and better for it.
Also worth reading:
- >> Credential Brokering Patterns for AI Agents Part 1: Don’t Give the Agent the Keys [christianposta.com]
- >> The Rise of Open Weights; And the fall of commercial AI? [scottlogic.com]
- >> Throw, Result, or neither? [event-driven.io]
- >> Codeberg Divides [lucumr.pocoo.org]
- >> Shifting readiness left: What AI can (and can’t) do for organisational readiness [scottlogic.com]
3. Pick of the Week
>> First, ten [seths.blog]
