Spring Boot 4 and Framework 7: Modularization, AoT and Efficiency

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Covers Spring Boot 4 and Spring Framework 7’s structural changes toward modular, smaller apps by modularizing starters and making dependencies explicit. Explains performance and architecture improvements including Ahead-of-Time repositories for faster data access, enhanced declarative HTTP clients and built-in resilience features, plus ecosystem updates like Jackson 3 serialization and JSpecify for nullability; shows how these affect real application design.

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1. 0:00Introduction
2. 1:44Spring Framework 7 news
3. 3:07JSpecify and Java nullability
4. 8:23AOT in Spring Data repos
5. 11:53Native API versioning
6. 14:42Improved HTTP clients
7. 16:46Jackson 3 update
8. 19:54Core resilience features
9. 21:18Starter modularization
10. 25:10Support timeline
11. 26:55Demo
12. 39:22Key takeaways
13. 41:48Q&A

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