Enterprise Baseline: Spring 6, Spring Boot 3, Spring AI and Java 21

What is an Enterprise Application?

It a software, of the size of Burj Khalifa, or more simply it has more than 10,000 classes or more.

A set of computer programs with common business applications and tools for modeling how the complete organization functions is referred to as an enterprise application. Its goal is to tackle enterprise-wide problems while increasing productivity and efficiency.

So you will be wondering then why this newsletter.

As the release of Spring 6, Spring Boot 3, and their baseline will be JDK17+, before moving further if you have not read Migrating from Java 8 to Java 11 or Java 17

Then you can read that.

There are many applications still running on Java 8, some even older than that. And same goes for Spring projects.

In order to promote collaboration and task coordination across the organization, enterprise apps are created to integrate computer systems that operate every aspect of a business's activities. The goal is to integrate key business operations, including inventory management, manufacturing, sales, accounting, and finance.

Therefore, there is a lot of work to do to upgrade these to the latest stack and avoid any security issues, because if not then any attack on the enterprise will be irreversible.

There are only two options now:

• Start upgrading your old enterprise application and/or
• Any new application should start with this baseline.

Because there is a saying,

THE BEST TIME IS NOW

By the end of this decade you will left behind, and when Spring AI, picks up you need to invest more money than you would have done in coming years, to upgrade to baseline. Currently Spring AI, it's experimental.

Spring Boot has taken the software industry by storm. Spring AI has high hopes. And they have never disappointed us.

Spring AI? Yes, how can they leave behind AI Transformation?

You heard it right.

Digital Transformation leading to AI Transformation

However, will cover Spring AI in detail in some other newsletter.

As an enterprise organization, follow below to trigger the baseline:

1. Identify how many applications are running in your organization with older versions.
2. Find the reason if not upgraded to baseline, then when the team has planned for it.
3. After doing the above two you will find out the number.
4. Then break down a plan that how long you need to upgrade each project so that by the end of next year or so you can finish at least 50% of the upgrade.

Improved performance, enhanced security, and access to the latest language features and APIs are some of the benefits.

Java 21 is yet to be launched but you can start with Java 17.

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