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Java on Azure Tooling Update – March 2023

Hi everyone, welcome to the March update of Java on Azure Tooling. In this update, we will introduce Azure Event Hubs Support, Templates Enhancements for Azure Functions, and Log Streaming Improvements for Azure Spring Apps during deployment in IntelliJ IDEA. To use these new features, please download and install the Azure Toolkit for IntelliJ...

Java on Visual Studio Code Update – April 2022

Hi everyone, welcome to the April update of Visual Studio Code Java. This time we are bringing you many exciting updates regarding our fundamental experience improvement including Java 18 support, inlay hints for parameter names, new language server status UX, lambda expression support in debugging and so on. Let's get into it. Microsoft ...

Automate Spring Boot application deployments to Azure!

Today, we’re excited to announce the availability of the Azure Pipeline Task for deploying Spring Boot applications to Azure Spring Cloud. You can get started by building your pipelines using the Azure Spring Cloud task to automate Spring Boot application deployments to any number of environments and Azure Regions. Over the past 18 months...

Deploy Spring Boot applications by leveraging enterprise best practices – Azure Spring Cloud Reference Architecture

Today, we’re excited to announce the availability of the Azure Spring Cloud Reference Architecture. You can get started by deploying the Azure Spring Cloud Reference Architecture to accelerate and secure Spring Boot applications in the cloud at scale using validated best practices. Over the past year, we worked with many enterprise ...

Supporting Jetty for Java in Visual Studio Code

Eclipse Jetty is a popular web server and servlet container in Java community. We’ve released a new Jetty extension for Visual Studio Code that makes it easy to run and deploy WAR packages (Web Application aRchive), operate your Jetty servers, and interact with your application from within the editor. Today this extension includes the ...