State of Spring, 2026

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Reserved. The term “Broadcom” refers to Broadcom Inc. and/or its subsidiaries. State of Spring 2026 Coté Tanzu February 18th, 2026 Why Tanzu Spring is the best option for enterprise applications in 2026 & beyond

Reserved. The term “Broadcom” refers to Broadcom Inc. and/or its subsidiaries. 2 2 Spring Developers Thrive #1 for enterprise apps Addresses top 3 CIO priorities All the new, cool features AI Platforms 50%+ AI on private cloud Spring AI is a top AI framework Official MCP Java SDK 60% of Spring Boot downloads out of support 65% upgrade manually App Advisor is 70% faster Upgrading

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Reserved. The term “Broadcom” refers to Broadcom Inc. and/or its subsidiaries. 4 4 “No one every got fired for using Spring.” 8 out of 8 DaShaun Carters agree:

Reserved. The term “Broadcom” refers to Broadcom Inc. and/or its subsidiaries. The Spring Community is Thriving Market Leadership and Growth 77M+ MONTHLY DOWNLOADS Maven Central Statistics 28% YoY growth 28% YOY DOWNLOAD GROWTH Maven Central 2023-2024 comparison 482K+ GITHUB STARS Across public Spring ecosystem repositories 85% JAVA ENTERPRISE USAGE Most popular Java framework [JetBrains] Ecosystem Breadth 1.9M GITHUB SPRING REPOSITORIES AWS Azure GCP Docker K8s Redis Valkey Kafka OAut h LDAP Cloud Foundry MQTT +200 more Graph QL Mongo DB MySQL OIDC 23 ACTIVE CORE PROJECTS Boot | Security | Data | AI | Cloud | Batch Sources: Maven Central; GitHub; JetBrains Developer Survey; Spring Io Analytics; Spring Repos GitHub

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Reserved. The term “Broadcom” refers to Broadcom Inc. and/or its subsidiaries. 8 8 Spring Developers Are Critical for Every Top CIO Priority Source: "Modernize Or Fall Behind: Rethinking IT Infrastructure For A Competitive Edge," Forrester, commissioned by Broadcom, n=216 surveys June, 2025, published October, 2025.

Reserved. The term “Broadcom” refers to Broadcom Inc. and/or its subsidiaries. 9 9 AI Platforms & Frameworks

Reserved. The term “Broadcom” refers to Broadcom Inc. and/or its subsidiaries. 10 10 The critical adjacency for building business apps with LLMs is existing business logic and infrastructure. And the critical skill set is building sophisticated business applications. In both these areas, the JVM is far ahead of Python and likely to remain so. … We have invested a lot in domain models, some of which are even very good. And, to be able to leverage that as we move to the new world is really, really important.” Rod Johnson, 2025 “ Source: “Java relevance in the AI era - agent frameworks emerge,” James Governor, RedMonk, October, 2025; "GenAI Grows Up: Building Production-Ready Agents on the JVM," Rod Johnson, GOTO, October 1st, 2025. Booble head from Spring conference 2007 or 2009.

Reserved. The term “Broadcom” refers to Broadcom Inc. and/or its subsidiaries. 11 11 Sources: “62% of enterprises now use Java to power AI apps,” Darryl K. Taft, TheNewStack, February, 2026; “Java relevance in the AI era - agent frameworks emerge,” James Governor, RedMonk, October, 2025.

Reserved. The term “Broadcom” refers to Broadcom Inc. and/or its subsidiaries. 12 12 Chat Completion Text to Image Audio Transcription Text to Speech Moderation Observability ETL ChatClient API Advisors API Supports all major frontier & open source models Embeddings Structured Outputs Vector Databases Tool/Function Calling Model Context Protocol Model Eval Chat Conversation Memory RAG Public & private cloud QianFan Source: Spring AI Reference,Spring Chat Models Comparison, both accessed Nov 10th, 2025.

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Reserved. The term “Broadcom” refers to Broadcom Inc. and/or its subsidiaries. 14 14 Source: IDC White Paper, sponsored by Broadcom, On-Premises AI Infrastructure Balances Innovation and Security, doc #US52747024 December, 2024. Conducted July, 2024, n=411.

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Reserved. The term “Broadcom” refers to Broadcom Inc. and/or its subsidiaries. 16 16 Spring AI App Python TypeScript vLLM ollama VMware Private AI Foundation Gemini OpenAI GPU GPU GPU GPU GPU CPU MySQL Valkey Greenplum MCP MCP MCP AI Gateway 🔐 VMs & Containers * Valkey is an open source Redis fork. Sources: Tanzu AI Services 10.3 System Architecture docs. See also Deployment Topologies; “Tales from Production - Debugging LLMs and GenAI Apps on VMware Tanzu Platform,” Nick Kuhn VMware Explore 2025, No. CODEQT1641LV, August, 2025. Anthropic RabbitMQ Other Services Postgres GemFire

Reserved. The term “Broadcom” refers to Broadcom Inc. and/or its subsidiaries. 17 17 Sources: “Building an Enterprise MCP Server Marketplace with Tanzu Platform," Corby Page & Brian Kirkland, January 23rd, 2026. “How Broadcom’s IT Leverages Tanzu Platform to Achieve Enterprise- Scale Agentic Business Transformation,” Kevin Strohmeyer, December, 2025. Scale 1,000’s of devs, apps for hosting AI tools, models, and apps Standards for AI integration, like model context protocol (MCP), are very early; it’s a fast-moving world, but they’re not all enterprise-ready yet. The solution that Tanzu Platform provides fills the gaps in these enterprise standards while delivering the telemetry we need to understand adoption, usage and continually improve our services.” Alan Davidson, CIO, Broadcom “

Reserved. The term “Broadcom” refers to Broadcom Inc. and/or its subsidiaries. 18 18 Upgrading & Modernization

Reserved. The term “Broadcom” refers to Broadcom Inc. and/or its subsidiaries. 19 of Spring Boot downloads in the past 12 months were for versions no longer supported in open source 60% data validation: May 2025 Spring Boot 3.3.x release notes Tanzu Spring support OSS Support policy

Reserved. The term “Broadcom” refers to Broadcom Inc. and/or its subsidiaries. 20 20 of executives say legacy software is holding them back. 76% Sources: “Improving Customer Experience And Revenue Starts With The App Portfolio,” Forrester Consulting, commissioned by VMware, March, 2020. Survey conducted July to Oct. 2020 with 614 respondents and six CIO/SVP interviews. Also: KLM, Alight, Fiserv on panel at Explore, August, 2025. 2

Reserved. The term “Broadcom” refers to Broadcom Inc. and/or its subsidiaries. 21 21 Upgrades bring performance and cost improvements Sources: Spring Boot 3.x - Details and Spring Framework 6.x - Details 2022 native compiled “[O]n Java 21, organizations have observed up to 20% lower memory consumption and as much as 2x faster startup, with even stronger results on Java 25.” Tanzu internal studies, March, 2025.

Reserved. The term “Broadcom” refers to Broadcom Inc. and/or its subsidiaries. 22 22 Java excels at MCP performance Source: “Multi-Language MCP Server Performance Benchmark,” Thiago Mendes, TM Dev Lab, Feburary, 2026; Alexandros Pappas, Lufthansa, February, 2026.

Reserved. The term “Broadcom” refers to Broadcom Inc. and/or its subsidiaries. 23 23 Tanzu Application Advisor Illustrations reflect an example migration. See Tanzu Application Advisor docs for more.

Reserved. The term “Broadcom” refers to Broadcom Inc. and/or its subsidiaries. 24 24 Our upgrade time has significantly reduced… Actually 70%.” Sree Alaparthi “ Source: "Keeping Spring Apps Current in a Changing Landscape," Sree Alaparthi, Enterprise Solution Architect, Alight Solutions, Explore, August, 2025.

Reserved. The term “Broadcom” refers to Broadcom Inc. and/or its subsidiaries. Tanzu Spring Built for enterprises by the creators of Spring Comprehensive Security across the entire application lifecycle Simplified compliance with automated controls and reporting "Organizations using VMware Tanzu Spring reduced security incidents by 62% while accelerating deployment frequency by 43%." IDC Business Value Study, 2023

Reserved. The term “Broadcom” refers to Broadcom Inc. and/or its subsidiaries. 26 26 Give • Security & Compliance • Modernization • Performance & Cost • AI apps & strategy Get • Integrated AI app platform • Newest versions of Spring • Career in Spring & Java • Fun & happiness Source: "Modernize Or Fall Behind: Rethinking IT Infrastructure For A Competitive Edge," Forrester, commissioned by Broadcom, n=216 surveys June, 2025, published October, 2025.

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