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Hibernate 7.4: What's new for Spring Boot developers

Hibernate 7.4 introduces temporal entities, auditing, and safer pagination—key upgrades for Spring Data JPA developers.

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Upgrading from Spring Boot 3 to Spring Boot 4 - Minor issues

A quick Spring Boot 4 migration diary: moved packages, split deps, and stricter tests.

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OCR Is Becoming Structured Data: Testing Mistral OCR 4 with Spring AI and Angular

A full-stack document intelligence demo using Angular, Spring Boot, Spring AI 2.0, and Mistral OCR 4 to extract markdown, layout blocks, tables, images, confidence signals, and structured JSON.

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Java and Kotlin in VS Code: Fix Maven Interop and Imports

Fix Java/Kotlin interop issues in VS Code and VSCodium with Maven compiler settings, Kotlin source roots, and Java-facing service contracts.

Java

Spring Boot Versions Explorer

SpringDiff lets you compare any two Spring Boot versions side by side — starters, properties, auto-configurations, and release notes in one place.

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Spring Boot 4.0 Null Safety: JSpecify Ends a Decade of Fragmentation?

Spring Boot 4.0 adopts JSpecify as its null annotation standard. Find out what changes, why it matters, and how it improves your code with four before/after examples.

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Java 26 - the new features

What is coming in Java 26 for developers

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Why WordPress bots keep knocking on your Java server

Stop wasting JVM threads on WordPress bots. Here is how to block PHP scanners at the Cloudflare, Nginx, and Spring Security levels to keep your Java logs clean.

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Lombok: The Batman of the JRE that saved Java from Boilerplate

Is Lombok a bad citizen or a Superhero?

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The Friction Zone: Why mixing Kotlin, Java, Hibernate and Lombok is a technical debt nightmare

Transitioning a legacy Java monolith to Kotlin sounds like a modern developer’s dream, but when that project relies on Hibernate and Lombok, the "100% interoperability" promise quickly unravels. This post explores the deep-rooted architectural conflicts that occur when Kotlin’s opinionated, null-sa…

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How to Fix “Port 8080 Already in Use” in Spring Boot (Mac, Linux, Windows)

Learn how to fix the “Port 8080 already in use” error in Spring Boot. Find and kill the process on Mac, Linux, or Windows and prevent future port conflicts.