Migrating to Java 17 and Spring Boot 3.3.5 using Claude Code and Cursor

Photo by Luca Bravo on Unsplash I recently completed the migration of my Spring Boot example repository from Java 8 and Spring Boot 1.4.3 to Java 17 and Spring Boot 3.3.5. This repository is a popular example project on GitHub with 36 stars and 89 forks , serving as a reference implementation for developers learning Spring Boot best practices. This was a significant migration that involved…