Before you start the upgrade, make sure to upgrade to the latest available 2.7.x version. This will make sure that you are building against the most recent dependencies of that line. You may also use ...

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We're facing cases where a third party dependency has a different versioning scheme than the one that matches our upgrade policy. One recent example is the Upgrade to MySQL 9.3.0 that contains a CVE ...

Spring Boot is the most popular Java framework for building cloud-native applications, and Hibernate is the most popular object-relational mapping framework for implementing the JPA spec. This Spring ...

Developers typically use field injection only on small projects and prototypes, due to its inability to support immutable variables and the incompatibilities it creates with many testing frameworks.

Before Spring introduced custom annotations, developers had to manage configurations like email validation using XML configuration files. The XML configuration would define beans, validators, and ...

There are very good reasons for Java’s long-lived popularity as a server-side platform. It combines unbeatable maturity and breadth with a long and ongoing history of innovation. Using Spring adds a ...

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