JetBrains is deepening its collaboration with the Spring platform team, with the goal of making the Kotlin language a top choice for professional server-side work.

The JetBrains-Spring partnership, announced May 22, is intended to make Kotlin a more natural and powerful choice for building Spring applications, JetBrains said. Spring is a well-established framework for developing enterprise Java applications. 

As part of the partnership, JetBrains is building a newer and faster version of its reflection library, kotlinx.reflect, to improve performance in scenarios relying heavily on reflection, such as serialization and dependency injection.