Enterprise Java
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JSpecify + Spring Boot 4: Finally Fixing Java’s Billion-Dollar Mistake
Tony Hoare introduced the null reference in 1965 and later called it his “billion-dollar mistake.” For Java developers, the pain has been…
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GraalVM Native Image: Why Reflection Still Breaks in 2026 and How to Fix It
GraalVM Native Image has solved the startup time problem. A Spring Boot application that previously took 3–5 seconds to start…
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Building and testing a Modern Java 25 / Spring Boot 4.0.6 Backend: Docker, PostgreSQL, OpenAPI, Serenity BDD, Cucumber, and JUnit 6
Abstract This article walks through a compact but realistic backend application built with Java 25 and Spring Boot 4.0.6. The…
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HTML UIs in Spring AI MCP Servers
Modern AI applications are evolving beyond simple text interactions. With the introduction of the Model Context Protocol (MCP), developers can…
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Spring HATEOAS + OpenAPI 3.0: Why Links Don’t Appear in Swagger UI
You built a perfectly valid HAL response, opened Swagger, and the _links are simply… gone. Here is exactly why that happens and…
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Anthropic Agent Skills Support in Spring AI
Large Language Models (LLMs) are rapidly evolving from simple text generators into intelligent agents capable of performing complex tasks. One…
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Spring Boot 3 → 4 Migration: The 7 Failures Nobody Warns You About
Our recent piece on what changed in Spring Boot 4 covered the headline features: modularised JARs, JSpecify null-safety, API versioning, and Jackson…
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Spring AI Subagent Orchestration Guide
As AI-powered applications become increasingly sophisticated, a single AI agent is often insufficient to handle complex business workflows. Modern AI…
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Apache Camel Observability: A Practical Guide
Modern integration applications often connect multiple services, APIs, messaging systems, and databases. As these integrations grow in complexity, monitoring and…
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