Best of Spring Boot — January 2026
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Red Hat Developer·19w
The case for building enterprise agentic apps with Java instead of Python
Java offers significant advantages over Python for enterprise AI applications in regulated industries. The JVM provides architectural stability through compile-time verification, mature security tooling with SAST and CVE management, and unified observability. Java frameworks like Spring AI and Quarkus with LangChain4j enable production-grade agentic applications while maintaining existing governance standards, reducing cognitive load on teams, and leveraging established Java expertise. Code-specialized LLMs also generate higher quality Java code due to strong typing and abundant well-structured training data.
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Awesome·18w
I actually tried AI coding and it's worse than I thought...
A developer spent two days testing OpenAI's Codex agent and GPT-5 model by building a Brazilian jiu-jitsu gym management app from scratch. While the AI successfully scaffolded a Spring Boot backend with minimal issues, it struggled with nuanced decisions and generated poor-quality React Native code requiring extensive refactoring. The experiment revealed that AI coding tools can accelerate development but require deep technical knowledge to evaluate and fix generated code, often producing suboptimal solutions that create maintenance debt. The final app was functional but took 20 hours of active prompting and fixing, raising questions about cost scalability and the true value proposition of AI coding assistants.
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Spring·16w
A Bootiful Podcast: Start Your Year with Java Right with Java Developer Advocate Billy Korando
A podcast episode featuring Java Developer Advocate Billy Korando discussing Java development and the Spring ecosystem. The conversation covers Java best practices and Spring framework capabilities for building various types of applications.
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JetBrains·17w
Spring Boot Debugging – Now Remote
JetBrains' Spring Debugger plugin now supports remote debugging without requiring debug agents. The plugin, which has over 300,000 downloads, allows developers to inspect Spring Boot applications running remotely by suspending servlet container threads to read the Spring context. Behavior varies by container: Tomcat loads context immediately, while Jetty and Undertow require the first HTTP request. Setup uses standard JVM remote debugging with an open debug port. Current limitations include embedded-container-only support, required module classpath specification, and no remote database structure view.