Connect Your AI to Everything: Spring AI's MCP Boot Starters

The Model Context Protocol MCP standardizes how AI applications interact with external tools and resources. Spring joined the MCP ecosystem early as a key contributor, helping to develop and maintain the official MCP Java SDK that serves as the foundation for Java-based MCP implementations...

This Week in Spring - September 9th, 2025

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! I am home, ensconced in my studio here in somewhat sunny San Francisco, California, relaxing and trying to catch up on stuff I missed. As always, there's a ton! So let's dive right into it. Some of the amazing features that...

This Week in Spring - July 1st, 2025

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! It's July!! This week, I'm on PTO, and as always, I'm looking for good reading material on the plane ride over for my holiday. Thank goodness for the ever-vibrant and awesome Spring community; there's tons of stuff to dive...

This Week in Spring - June 24th, 2025

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! We're in the middle of June already! And you know what that means? Warm weather, fun, and of course: the amazing SpringOne event in lovely Las Vegas, NV! The content catalog went live today! I'll be there doing, among other...

This Week in Spring - June 17th, 2025

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! We're in the middle of June already! And you know what that means? Warm weather, fun, and of course: the amazing SpringOne event in lovely Las Vegas, NV! The content catalog went live today! I'll be there doing, among other...

This Week in Spring - June 10th, 2025

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! It's been a busy week indeed since we last spoke! Last week I was in Amsterdam for the IntelliJ IDEA conference and for the JSpring event in Utrecht. Now, I'm in Tokyo, Japan, for the JJUG Spring 2025 event. Importantly: both...

This Week in Spring (AI) - May 27th, 2025

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This time, I'm talking to you after an insane week behind me. Last week I flew from San Francisco to Stockholm, Sweden where I was the speaker for the JForum event, a monthly meetup. Spring drew the largest audience to JForum...

A Bootiful Podcast: This Week in Spring (AI) - May 20th, 2025

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! As I write this, I'm in sunny Stockholm, Sweden for the JForum 123 installment. This is, apparently, the first time the meetup is completely full up since before the pandemic, with more than 150 people in attendance! Tak,...

Your First Spring AI 1.0 Application

Your First Spring AI 1.0 Application by Dr. Mark Pollack, Christian Tsolov, and Josh Long Hi, Spring fans! Spring AI is live on the Spring Initializr and everywhere fine bytes might be had. Ask your doctor if AI is right for you! It's an amazing time to be a Java and Spring developer. There's nev...

This Week in Spring - May 13th, 2025

Hi, Spring fans! As I write this, I'm at the amazing Code Remix event in Miami well, technically Tampa, Florida. I'll also be speaking at the Tampa JUG while I'm there, so look out! After that, I'll be headed back to Europe—a wee bit further north this time—to Stockholm for the amazing JForum...

This Week in Spring - May 6th, 2025

Hi, Spring fans! As I write this, I'm winging my way to lovely London, UK, for the amazing Devoxx UK event! I'll be looking at the wide and wonderful world of Springdom. Then, from there, it's off to Code Remix in Miami. I'll also be speaking at the Tampa JUG while I'm there, so look out! After...

This Week in Spring - April 22nd, 2025

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring , which I'm writing from magnificent Minneapolis, Minnesota, where I'm recording an amazing Frontend Masters course introducing Spring Boot. I love this article introducing Spring AI in JavaPro magazine Want to run an LLM...

This Week in Spring - April 15th, 2025

Spring AI M7 is here! This new release includes a bunch of awesome new features! And some refactorings. Notably that the Spring AI auto-configuration has changed from a single monolithic artifact to individual auto-configuration artifacts per model, vector store, and other components. This change...

Prompt Engineering Techniques with Spring AI

This blog post demonstrates practical implementations of Prompt Engineering techniques using Spring AI. The examples and patterns in this article are based on the comprehensive Prompt Engineering Guide that covers the theory, principles, and patterns of effective prompt engineering. The blog show...

This Week in Spring - April 8th, 2025

Hi, Spring fans! How are ya? I'm doing fine. Excited, even. You see, Spring AI M7 is coming soon! In theory, it drops on Thursday. Don't hold us to that — these things can change :- But soon , and it's turning out to be a whopper of a release! You should try upgrading your application to the new ...

Using Spring AI 1.0.0-SNAPSHOT: Part 2 - Important Changes and Updates

Using Spring AI 1.0.0-SNAPSHOT: Part 2 - Important Changes and Updates This blog post is a continuation of our previous article Using Spring AI 1.0.0-SNAPSHOT: Important Changes and Updates, where we introduced the significant changes to artifact IDs, dependency management, and autoconfiguration ...

A Bootiful Podcast: AWS Developer Advocate and industry legend James Ward

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment I talk to AWS Developer Advocate and industry legend James Ward about AWS Bedrock, Amazon Cohere, Spring AI, MCP, and so much more!...

This Week in Sprng - April 1st, 2025

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another exciting installment of This Week in Spring! It's April Fools day, so be wary of things you read on the internet, but it's also the 11th anniversary of Spring Boot 1.0, which was released this day in 2014! that's not an April Fools. Happy birthday! I'm in...

This Week in Spring – March 18th, 2025

Hi, Spring fans! I just got back from the amazing JavaOne show held in Redwood Shores. It was a fun, uproarious event and a great chance to reconnect with tons of friends, old and new. I love this community! One of the central highlights of this show? Java 24 is here, finally! And, as usual, we'v...

This Week in Sprng - March 4th, 2025

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring , and Happy Devnexus 2025 to those who celebrate! That's right sports fans, I'm off to awesome Atlanta, Georgia later today for Devnexus, one of the world's largest annual gatherings of Java community and luminaries alike. I'l...