🔸 TLDR
Today, March 24, 2026, marks 22 years since Spring Framework 1.0 Final was released on March 24, 2004. Its roots go back even earlier, with Rod Johnson tracing the project back to 2001 and its early foundation to late 2002.
🔸 WHY THIS IS WILD
▪️ Most frameworks become legacy.
▪️ Spring became infrastructure for modern Java.
▪️ And now, instead of slowing down, it is opening another chapter with Spring AI and even Embabel, described by Spring as an agentic framework built on top of Spring AI.
🔸 TAKEAWAYS
▪️ 22 years old today = Spring 1.0 Final released March 24, 2004.
▪️ The Spring story actually started before that, from work begun in 2001.
▪️ The future is not just Spring Boot anymore.
▪️ With Spring AI already GA since May 20, 2025, and Embabel entering the conversation, Spring may also help shape the next wave of AI-native Java.
22 years later, Spring is still doing something rare in tech:
staying familiar while moving forward. ☕
What was your first Spring version?
And do you see the next big chapter as Boot, or AI + agents? 👀
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