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Preparing for Spring Boot 4 and Spring Framework 7: What’s New?

Mon, 11 Aug 2025 14:42:40 +0000

I’m a passionate Spring Framework and Spring Boot enthusiast, and I always look forward to exploring and experimenting with the latest features and improvements they introduce. With Spring Boot 4 and Spring Boot Framework 7 right around the corner, now’s the perfect time to dive into the key enhancements that will shape the future of modern Java and enterprise application development.

In this blog post, we will discuss some key features enhanced as part of Spring Framework 7 and Spring Boot 4.

Durable Subscription with JMS and Spring Boot

Thu, 28 Dec 2023 12:45:56 +0000

When using the publish-subscribe domain with JMS, we often want to use durable subscriptions. But how can this be done with Spring Boot?

What is JMS?

The Java Message Service (JMS) API is a standard for creating, sending, receiving, and reading messages. It enables distributed communication that is loosely coupled, reliable, and asynchronous.

JMS supports two message delivery modes: Point-to-Point and Publish/Subscribe

In the point-to-point domain, a producer can send a message to one consumer through a destination called “queue”. A given queue may have multiple receivers, but only one receiver may consume each message.

Testing Spring Boot JMS with ActiveMQ Artemis and Testcontainers

Tue, 12 Dec 2023 07:55:03 +0000

Currently, I’m teaching JMS with Spring Boot at the University of Applied Science in Bern, Switzerland. We use Apache ActiveMQ Artemis as the JMS message broker. But how can we test our Spring Boot application?

Testcontainers to the Rescue

Currently, there is no Testcontainers Java module for ActiveMQ Artemis. As you can see in the Testcontainers GitHub repository , there is an active activemq branch that may be released soon. But in the meantime, we need another solution.

Debugging the Java Message Service (JMS) API using Lightrun

Fri, 03 Jun 2022 09:26:12 +0000

The Java Message Service API (JMS) was developed by Sun Microsystems in the days of Java EE .

The JMS API provides us with simple messaging abstractions including Message Producer, Message Consumer, etc. Messaging APIs let us place a message on a “queue” and consume messages placed into said queue.

This is immensely useful for high throughput systems – instead of wasting user time by performing a slow operation in real-time, an enterprise application can send a message. This non-blocking approach enables extremely high throughput, while maintaining reliability at scale.