IntelliJ IDEA Conf 2026
2026-09-08..2026-09-09
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as the organisers put it
We invite you to join us for IntelliJ IDEA Conf 2026 and gain insights from industry leaders and experts.
who it's for
Java developers, Spring framework developers, backend engineers, platform engineers, database engineers, tooling and plugin authors, engineering managers
topics
Agent Client Protocol (ACP) for Java; Java agents over stdio; Spring AI with memory; agent tool calling loop; structured concurrency with StructuredTaskScope; virtual threads on JDK 26; JPA entity generation from database; Flyway migration workflows; JobRunr background job queues; skills packaged as versioned JARs; nullability migration with JSpecify and NullAway
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Agent Client Protocol for Java Developers | Mark Pollack | 47m |
ACP acts as the wire protocol while a Java SDK plus a Spring Boot starter lets developers register handlers and spin agents as jars over stdio; demos show a… | ||
| Beyond Virtual Threads: Structured Concurrency | Balkrishna Rawool | 01h 03m |
A Spring Boot 4 app on JDK 26 is built live, switching Tomcat handlers to Virtual Threads enabled via spring.threads.virtual, then using StructuredTaskScope to… | ||
| Persistence Workflows with IntelliJ IDEA | Andrey Belyaev | 56m |
Starts from a legacy SQL script, runs it in a Docker Postgres, then generates JPA entities for five core tables and validates them with Hibernate Create JPA… | ||
| Your Java AI Agent at Home | Ronald Dehuysser | 39m |
ClawRunr is a Java open‑source personal assistant that hooks Spring AI to JobRunr, queues recurring background jobs, and integrates LLMs (OpenAI, Anthropic… | ||
| Manage Skills Like Dependencies | James Ward | 43m |
Packages skills.md files as versioned JARs so JVM projects treat skills like dependencies, published to Maven Central or an internal repo via tooling and… | ||
| Nulls are dead | Moritz Halbritter | 53m |
Migrates a Spring Boot demo app to JSpecify annotations using OpenRewrite, adds a Nullability Maven plugin that wires NullAway through ErrorProne to make… | ||
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