Spring Tools Live - All the Great New Things

In this session I will show you how to improve productivity with Spring Tools, highlighting integrations with VS Code, and highlighting how GitHub Copilot can make your development process easier and more efficient. I’ll cover new Features and Enhancements in Spring Tools to help you build robust and scalable Java applications more efficiently. This includes Spring Boot version validations and automated upgrades using OpenRewrite, live information directly in your source code from running applications, plus performance improvements, enhanced support for Spring Modulith and writing queries inside Spring Data JPA annotations, and the powerful integration of AI with GitHub Copilot to assist you in writing, debugging, and refactoring code. This brief session will be almost 100% live code, including tips, tricks, and insights to stay ahead of the curve and take your Java development skills to the next level.