Engineering With Java: Digest #46

Handpicked and Curated: The Best Java and Spring Blogs.

Introduction 📝

• This week’s collection of articles covers a wide range of topics, from building declarative APIs with Spring AOP and SpEL to comparing Spring Boot’s circuit breaker and retry patterns.
• It also explores optimizing MySQL performance with Releem, constructing AI multi-agent systems in Java, and understanding garbage collection improvements in Java since JDK 8.
• For Spring Boot users, there’s insight into handling multiple data sources and integrating HelloSign for e-signature workflows, making these resources valuable for enhancing Java-based applications.

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Top Picks ⭐️

1. Building a Declarative API with Spring AOP and SpEL

• This article demonstrates how to build a declarative API for cross-cutting concerns like auditing using Spring AOP and SpEL. It explains creating a custom annotation for auditing method invocations and how to use SpEL to extract and process client IDs from method arguments.
• It also introduces Spring AOP to apply the auditing logic…