Here's how to build a Spring Boot 12-Factor app and safely deploy a cloud-native Java app to Docker and Kubernetes servers.

The Spring Boot @ConfigurationProperties simplifies the use of the application.properties file, easing the creation of lists, maps and inner classes.

Spring Boot 3 & Spring Framework 6, due in late 2022, will have built-in support for native Java. For Spring Framework 5.x & Spring Boot 2.x, Spring Native is the way to go.

Spring Framework 6.1 and Spring Boot 3.2 run on Java 21, make concurrent programming simpler and more efficient with virtual threads, and initially support “Scale to Zero” startup time with CRaC.

Microsoft announced Spring Boot improvements in the latest update to Java on Visual Studio Code tooling. That tooling comes in the Spring Boot Extension Pack in the Visual Studio Code Marketplace, ...