Jforum #123
Spring Boot and Spring AI
We are excited to announce a meetup hosted by Advania and TD Synnex with a Spring Framework focus.
Please register here to secure your spot.
Agenda:
17:30 Doors open, light food and drinks
18:00 Bootiful Spring Boot: a DOGumentary by Josh Long
Spring Boot 3.x and Java 21 have arrived, making it an exciting time to be a Java developer! Join me, Josh Long, as we dive into the future of Spring Boot with Java 21. Discover how to scale your applications and codebases effortlessly. We'll explore the robust Spring Boot ecosystem, featuring AI, modularity, seamless data access, and cutting-edge production optimizations like Project Loom's virtual threads, GraalVM, AppCDS, and more. Let's explore the latest-and-greatest in Spring Boot to build faster, more scalable, more efficient, more modular, more secure, and more intelligent systems and services.
18:55 From Prompts to Agents: A Practical Introduction to Generative AI with Spring AI by Neven Cvetkovic
Generative AI is transforming how we build software, powering everything from chatbots to intelligent assistants. In this session, we’ll take a gentle, beginner-friendly look at how large language models work, what makes them powerful, and how to connect with them using Spring AI. We will look at how to use vector stores to enable semantic search over our own content, how to use tools and function calling, and to apply retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) in order to build intelligent applications that generate context-aware responses.
We’ll also touch on the emerging shift from simple prompts to agentic behaviors, exploring how your applications can begin to reason, retrieve, and act in more dynamic ways.
19:40 More mingle and drinks
20:30 For those who wants to keep going, follow us to a pub nearby for a last beer.
Looking forward to seeing you!
