Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! It's Tuesday and work is well underway to prepare for the huge SpringOne event in Las Vegas in just a few short week's time! I'm elated! So, let's get this roundup on the road so I can get back to the preparation frenzy...

• Spring AI Embraces OpenAI's Structured Outputs: Enhancing JSON Response Reliability
• A Bootiful Podcast: Spring Cloud Dataflow, Spring Cloud Task, and Spring Batch legend Glenn Renfro
• in last week's installment of Spring Tips, I looked at using Spring Boot and HTMX together
• I love this: a bunch of opensource projects are working on a common set of annotations to convey nullability and null-restricted types in Java
• I love this: IntelliJ IDEA has a new feature: multi-project workspaces, which adds support for opening multiple projects in one window. Supports Maven, Gradle and arbitrary projects in IntelliJ IDEA.
• nice find from Microsoft's Julien Dubois: French Olympic gold medalist Leon Marchand, fresh off winning four gold medals in swimming in the 2024 Paris Olympics, is a student at Arizona State University and studying Java
• I am so looking forward to the SpringOne event! Are you registered?. SpringOne is a part of VMware Explore. I'll be doing most of my talks on the livestream and one, with Spring Security lead Rob Winch, offstream. Here's all the content I'll be a part of. The keynote figures to be amazing, of course, with a huge ensemble cast. That's a must-not-miss, of course. I'll be doing my normal Bootiful Spring Boot talk, too. And I'll be doing a talk on Passkeys with Spring Security lead Rob Winch. And, I'll be doing an Introduction to Spring AI with none other than Spring AI lead Dr. Mark Pollack and Spring founder Dr. Rod Johnson! Do not miss any of these!