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3 weeks ago | theserverside.com | Cameron McKenzie

Spring Boot's ability to auto-configure the development environment so that developers can quickly integrate databases, Kafka queues, cloud services and AI models into their apps is one of the popular Java framework's biggest selling features. Few developers know how Spring Boot auto-configuration works, though. Spring's @AutoConfiguration annotation Spring Boot attempts to auto-configure any Java application that includes the @AutoConfiguration annotation.

3 weeks ago | theserverside.com | Cameron McKenzie

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 performance, setting up logging in your Java applications and microservices can be complex. Spring logging tutorial Fortunately, Spring Boot, through its Spring logging dependency, greatly simplifies the process to efficiently and effectively generate runtime reports.

4 weeks ago | theserverside.com | Bob Reselman

Human interaction with AI and large language models (LLMs) is instigated using natural language prompts. However, the mechanism these systems use to process requests and responses is through tokens, a computational unit that represents a portion of unstructured data such as text in a document or the image in a graphic file.

1 month ago | theserverside.com | Cameron McKenzie

The introduction of Spring annotations such as @Bean and @Component, which greatly simplify how to provision and autowire Spring managed beans, triggered a mass exodus from XML-based Spring configuration. However, annotation-based Spring configuration has its drawbacks, especially as applications scale. A codebase with Java annotations scattered across hundreds of classes can quickly become difficult to manage.

1 month ago | theserverside.com | Cameron McKenzie

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 understand what MCP is and what problem it solves? As always, the best way to learn a new API is to build something useful with it, which is exactly what we do in this Spring Boot and Model Context Protocol tutorial.