ICYMI: There's a walkthrough video by @antonarhipov.bsky.social, @maritvandijk.bsky.social, @sivalabs.in, and Marco Behler covering all the highlights of the IntelliJ IDEA 2026.2 release. Check it out!

What's New in IntelliJ IDEA 2026.2

IntelliJ IDEA 2026.2 is here! This version brings updates designed to streamline your workflows and help you confidently adopt the latest innovations across the Java ecosystem. Our developer…

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Stop parsing AI responses with brittle string manipulation. Let Spring AI return real Java objects. 🚀 www.sivalabs.in/blog/spring-... 🤖 Why structured output matters ⚡ Generate typed objects 📋 Work with BeanOutputConverter, ListOutputConverter and MapOutputConverter #SpringAI #SpringBoot #Java

Spring AI : Structured Output

Chat models are great at producing prose, but most applications don’t want prose — they want a Java object, a List<String>, or a Map they can bind to a response and return from a REST API. Spring AI’s...

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My 𝗦𝗽𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗕𝗼𝗼𝘁 𝗠𝗶𝗰𝗿𝗼𝘀𝗲𝗿𝘃𝗶𝗰𝗲𝘀 𝗖𝗼𝘂𝗿𝘀𝗲 code is upgraded to 𝗦𝗽𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗕𝗼𝗼𝘁 𝟰.𝟭.𝟬. github.com/sivaprasadre... 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗦𝗽𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗕𝗼𝗼𝘁 𝗠𝗶𝗰𝗿𝗼𝘀𝗲𝗿𝘃𝗶𝗰𝗲𝘀 𝗬𝗼𝘂𝗧𝘂𝗯𝗲 𝗖𝗼𝘂𝗿𝘀𝗲 👇 www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

GitHub - sivaprasadreddy/spring-boot-microservices-course: YouTube Spring Boot Microservices Course Application

YouTube Spring Boot Microservices Course Application - sivaprasadreddy/spring-boot-microservices-course

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🚨NewVideo - Kubernetes Made Easy. Deploy. Monitor. Debug. All from IntelliJ IDEA youtube.com/watch?v=Y8M7... You can connect & interact with Kubernetes cluster from IntelliJIDEA 👉 Explore kubernetes cluster resources 👉 Port forwarding 👉 SSH into pod containers 👉 Remote Debugging Spring Boot app

Kubernetes Made Easy. Deploy. Monitor. Debug. All from IntelliJ IDEA

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If you want to learn some of the topics I covered on my "Skyrocket Developer Productivity with Spring Boot & IntelliJ IDEA" workshop at Spring I/O 2026 conference, checkout github.com/sivaprasadre... #Java #IntelliJIDEA #SpringBoot #SpringIO2026

GitHub - sivaprasadreddy/spring-io-2026-intellijidea-workshop: Spring I/O 2026 IntelliJ IDEA Workshop

Spring I/O 2026 IntelliJ IDEA Workshop. Contribute to sivaprasadreddy/spring-io-2026-intellijidea-workshop development by creating an account on GitHub.

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This is a good post by @sivalabs.in : blog.jetbrains.com/idea/2026/03...

AI-Assisted Java Application Development with Agent Skills | The IntelliJ IDEA Blog

Agent Skills is a new initiative that solves both problems by managing context progressively and extending AI agent capabilities on demand.

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Nice talk on JPA gotchas and how to fix them. You can also learn how @intellijidea.com Spring Debugger plugin helps in identifying those JPA issues 👇 When ORM Becomes OMG: Performance Pitfalls in JPA and Friends by Jos Roseboom www.youtube.com/watch?v=NE_V... #Java #JPA #SpringBoot

When ORM Becomes OMG: Performance Pitfalls in JPA and Friends by Jos Roseboom

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Agent Skills helps to steer AI Agents in the right direction and also helps in efficiently using the context. blog.jetbrains.com/idea/2026/03... In this article, I have shared how you can create an Agent Skill and use it with @jetbrains.com Junie and Claude to generate optimal code.

AI-Assisted Java Application Development with Agent Skills | The IntelliJ IDEA Blog

Agent Skills is a new initiative that solves both problems by managing context progressively and extending AI agent capabilities on demand.

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The jSpecify specification helps you to avoid NullPointerExceptions. You can easily configure jSpecify support in Java projects using the freshly brewed 𝐣𝐒𝐩𝐞𝐜𝐢𝐟𝐲 𝐀𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐒𝐤𝐢𝐥𝐥 ♨️ github.com/sivaprasadre...

You have implemented Pagination using Spring Data JPA and it seem to work fine locally, but in production it crashed the server with OutOfMemory Exception 😰 www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Y0e... This video can help you identify a specific pagination issue and how to resolve it 🚀 #Java #SpringBoot

Spring Data JPA : Pagination While Loading Child Collection

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🚨𝐇𝐨𝐰 𝐭𝐨 𝐟𝐢𝐱 𝐇𝐢𝐛𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐋𝐚𝐳𝐲𝐈𝐧𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐳𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐄𝐱𝐜𝐞𝐩𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧? youtu.be/a0mzCZNEvLk 👉 What causes LazyInitializationException 👉 How OSIV Filter or Eager Loading may result in N+1 SELECT problem 👉 How to fix LazyInitializationException in 3 ways 𝐁𝐨𝐧𝐮𝐬: @intellijidea.com tip to generate Spring Data Projections

How to Fix Hibernate LazyInitializationException?

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🚨 Spring Boot + IntelliJ IDEA Tip 💡 www.youtube.com/watch?v=W6Zp... Learn how you can use @intellijidea.com Spring Debugger plugin with H2 Database. #Java #IntellijIDEA #SpringBoot

IntelliJ IDEA Spring Debugger with H2 Database

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ICYMI: I have created Agent Skills for Spring Boot. github.com/sivaprasadre... Yesterday I have added support for the following: ⭐️ MockMvcTester ⭐️ ArchUnit/Taikai ⭐️ Thymeleaf ⭐️ Docker Compose ⭐️ Taskfile #Java #SpringBoot #AI #Agents

GitHub - sivaprasadreddy/sivalabs-agent-skills: Spring Boot skills for AI coding agents

Spring Boot skills for AI coding agents. Contribute to sivaprasadreddy/sivalabs-agent-skills development by creating an account on GitHub.

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The new version of the Arconia CLI is now out, ready to supercharge your Spring Boot workflow 🚀 The CLI uses Java 25, Spring Boot 4, and is now powered by @picocli.bsky.social after migrating from Spring Shell. It's released as a native executable with @graalvm.org and released with @jreleaser.org.

❌ Prompt and Pray ✅ Use Agent Skills www.youtube.com/watch?v=OBHt...

Spring Boot Agent Skills - Let AI Generate Code The Way You Want

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If you are looking for a YouTube channel on #Java #SpringBoot #JPA #Docker #Testcontainers #Microservices #Architecture #IntelliJIDEA #AI #SpringAI topics, checkout my YouTube channel www.youtube.com/sivalabs

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Video tutorials on Java, Spring, SpringBoot, Hibernate, JPA, MicroServices, Docker, Kubernetes, DevOps, and Testing

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Spring Modulith is very valuable tool to avoid dependency cycles between modules in enterprise applications. Must-have tool for every serious project.

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SpringModulith helps in building Modular Monolith by providing automated modularity checks & more jb.gg/uj9s2n In this article I have explained: ✨Core principles of Spring Modulith ✨Adapting Spring Modulith in an existing Spring Boot app ✨How @intellijidea.com helps with inspections, & quick fixes

[🚨New Video ] Spring Boot Agent Skills - Let AI Generate Code The Way You Want youtu.be/OBHtRiWEyEs #Java #SpringBoot #AgentSkills

Spring Boot Agent Skills - Let AI Generate Code The Way You Want

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SpringModulith helps in building Modular Monolith by providing automated modularity checks & more jb.gg/uj9s2n In this article I have explained: ✨Core principles of Spring Modulith ✨Adapting Spring Modulith in an existing Spring Boot app ✨How @intellijidea.com helps with inspections, & quick fixes

Migrating to Modular Monolith using Spring Modulith and IntelliJ IDEA | The IntelliJ IDEA Blog

As applications grow in complexity, maintaining a clean architecture becomes increasingly challenging. The traditional package-by-layer approach of organizing code into controllers, services, reposito

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Another wonderful podcast episode. Interesting to hear the journey of open source software developers. I became a fan of Ronald Dehuysser's sense of humor 🙂 @jobrunr.bsky.social

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How do you run thousands of background jobs reliably in Java? Ronald Dehuysser built JobRunr after seeing real enterprise systems lose invoices in dead letter queues. In this episode we talk Java scheduling, OSS monetization, and AI in dev. 🎥 Watch: https://youtu.be/9Zgw_0kVFk8

Need a straightforward persistence layer for a CRUD service? Spring Data JDBC is lean and explicit. For a DB-first approach, use IntelliJ IDEA to generate entities from an existing schema. Liquibase and Flywaydb diff generation are also supported. jb.gg/b8o1hq

Spring Data JDBC Made Easy with IntelliJ IDEA | The IntelliJ IDEA Blog

In this article, you will learn how to use Spring Data JDBC by leveraging IntelliJ IDEA's powerful features and become more productive in your development process.

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Spring Modulith is my preferred way to build Spring Boot applications. I have created Spring Boot Agent Skill to use Spring Modulith so that I don't have to repeat myself 😎 github.com/sivaprasadre...

AI Powered Software Development: AI Ecosystem Overview youtu.be/JZ2UXSrhMIo

AI Powered Software Development: AI Ecosystem Overview

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Finally I am going to meet the Spring Community legends in-person 🤩

Learning Spring Boot can feel overwhelming for beginners 😵‍💫 That’s why I created 𝐒𝐩𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐁𝐨𝐨𝐭 𝐒𝐞𝐥𝐟 𝐋𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐆𝐮𝐢𝐝𝐞: a concise, example-driven guide covering most commonly used Spring Boot features. github.com/sivaprasadre... If you find it helpful, feel free to share 🙌 #SpringBoot #Java #Learning

GitHub - sivaprasadreddy/spring-boot-self-learning-guide: Spring Boot Self Learning Guide

Spring Boot Self Learning Guide. Contribute to sivaprasadreddy/spring-boot-self-learning-guide development by creating an account on GitHub.

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IntelliJ IDEA turns 25! 🎉 Join the celebration to meet our special guest Runzo, play with him, and grab our one-of-a-kind birthday postcards. Join the celebration! 👇 jb.gg/IJ25

🎉 What a terrific day! And we’re not done yet. Another heart-melting surprise is on the way. We can’t wait ❤️ 👇 youtu.be/TwMXi6tDzLE

IntelliJ IDEA: The Documentary | [OFFICIAL TRAILER] | out now 🚨

🚨 The IntelliJ IDEA Documentary premieres March 5th. The IDE That Changed Everything – 25 Years of IntelliJ IDEA From a tiny team of visionary engineers in early 2000s Prague to a global product…

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IntelliJ IDEA: The Documentary arrives 5th March! 🚨 It's the IDE that makes you "feel like you're in the cockpit of a figher jet". And to celebrate their 25th birthday, we've released the trailer -- now live on our YT channel 🎉 youtu.be/TwMXi6tDzLE

On behalf of the #Java DevRel Team at #Oracle, congratulations to @jetbrains.com for 25 years of @intellijidea.com, which has helped drive greater java adoption across the global developer ecosystem! Here's to 25 more years and beyond!

Is it "Ctrl + Alt + L" or "Ctrl + Shift + L" 🤔 Thankfully I don't need to memorize them anymore. Just dot dot www.youtube.com/watch?v=waY6... #Java #IntelliJIDEA #Tips

Command completion: No more shortcuts!

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