Bonjour a tout le monde! Welcome to another rip-roarin' installment of This Week in Spring! It's a fabulous and fun day here in Paris, France, as I wait to board the train to Amsterdam for the IntelliJ IDEA conference! It's going to be amazing.

We've got another incredible week's roundup to dive into, so let's do it!

• I feel like some of the best content over the past several months in this weekly roundup has been Craig Walls' Spring AI Recipes section. Fantastic stuff! This latest one looks at running an LLM in-JVM
• This is a nice article on using vertical slices in Spring Boot on Solodev.sk, by Dominik. Well done!
• Another amazing installment from Craig Walls, this one looking at running against local LLMs
• My friend and colleague DaShaun Carter talks about his Spring AI starter for agents.md
• Craig also has this lovely post on efficient tool use in Spring AI
• Last week, I did two videos on using Spring Boot, JavaFX, GraalVM native images, and Spring Security (and PKCE) to build native, lightning-fast, dynamic, efficient, reusable desktop applications that run well on Mac, Windows, and Linux, and look amazing, while taking small fractions of the RAM of a similar Electron-based application. Here's the first one, showing how to use Spring Boot and JavaFX together, so that you get the component model, event dispatch subsystem, internationalization, lifecycle management, and, of course, the entire and very rich ecosystem of Spring components and can use them to manage JavaFX components, too. We also look at native image compilation.
• Here's the second video, which looks at using Spring Security's OAuth client in the context of a desktop application, which can not, by definition, hold a client secret.
• In last week's installment of A Bootiful Podcast, I was delighted to chat with BellSoft's Catherine Edelveis about trusted and secure images for your Spring Boot applications
• This is a nice post on managing external configurations with Spring Cloud Config
• A nice recap of some of the new and novel in Spring Cloud AWS 4.1.1
• Nice article on Foojay.io: What Writing a Spring Boot Analyzer Taught Me About Spring