AI INTEGRATION MASTERY

FOR JAVA SPRING BOOT DEVELOPERS

Complete Interview & Production Guide

Version 1.0 • 2025

Covers: LangChain4j · Spring AI · OpenAI · Claude · Gemini · Ollama · LangGraph · Vector DBs · RAG · MCP

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SECTION 1: THE AI INTEGRATION LANDSCAPE
Why AI Integration Matters for Backend Developers
The rise of Large Language Models (LLMs) and AI-powered microservices has fundamentally changed
what backend developers need to know. As a Java Spring Boot engineer, AI integration is no longer a
"nice to have" — it is a core engineering discipline. Companies now embed LLMs into their
microservices to automate decisions, generate content, power intelligent search, and build
conversational agents.

1.1 The AI Integration Stack

Understanding the full stack is critical. Here is how each layer maps to your Spring Boot world:

Layer What It Does Tools You Must Know

LLM Provider Core model that generates text, OpenAI GPT-4o, Claude 3.5, Gemini 1.5,
code, embeddings Llama 3

Orchestration Chains, agents, tool calling, memory LangChain4j, Spring AI, LangGraph4j
management

Vector Storage Semantic search & retrieval for RAG Pinecone, Weaviate, pgvector, Qdrant,
pipelines Chroma

Tool / MCP Exposes services as callable tools Spring AI Tool Calling, Model Context
to LLM agents Protocol

Observability Trace, monitor, evaluate AI calls in LangSmith, Prometheus, Micrometer, Zipkin

production

💡 Key Insight: Your Spring Boot microservices become AI-native when you treat LLMs as just another
downstream service — called via a typed client, wrapped in retry logic, and monitored like any REST
dependency.

1.2 The AI Maturity Curve for Java Developers

Most developers follow this progression. Know exactly where you are and target the next level:

Level What You Can Do Tools Interview Signal

L1 — Basic Call OpenAI REST API, REST + JSON Knows AI exists

display results

L2 — Prompt engineering, Spring AI basics Uses AI in real projects

Integrated streaming, error handling

L3 — RAG Build RAG pipelines, embed LangChain4j, pgvector Understands architecture

docs, semantic search

L4 — Agent Multi-step agents, tool LangGraph4j, MCP Senior/lead ready

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 calling, memory

L5 — Expert Production AI: eval, Full stack + MLOps Staff/architect

guardrails, cost control, fine-
tuning

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SECTION 2: CORE AI TOOLS — DEEP DIVE
2.1 Spring AI — The Native Choice
Spring AI is the first-class AI integration library for the Spring ecosystem. It provides a unified, portable
abstraction over multiple LLM providers so you can switch from OpenAI to Claude or Gemini with zero
business logic changes.

Why Spring AI?

• Follows standard Spring conventions — auto-configuration, @Bean, [Link]
• Single ChatClient API works across OpenAI, Anthropic, Azure, Mistral, Ollama
• Built-in RAG support: ETL pipelines, vector stores, embedding models
• Native tool/function calling with @Tool annotations
• Structured output — parse LLM response directly into Java POJOs
• Advisor pattern for cross-cutting concerns (logging, memory, guardrails)

Dependency Setup (Spring Boot 3.x)

<!-- [Link] -->
<dependency>
<groupId>[Link]</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-ai-openai-spring-boot-starter</artifactId>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>[Link]</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-ai-pgvector-store-spring-boot-starter</artifactId>
</dependency>

ChatClient — Basic Usage

@RestController
@RequestMapping("/ai")
public class AiController {

private final ChatClient chatClient;

public AiController([Link] builder) {

[Link] = builder
.defaultSystem("You are a helpful Java developer assistant.")
.build();
}

@PostMapping("/chat")
public String chat(@RequestBody String userMessage) {
return [Link]()
.user(userMessage)
.call()
.content();
}
}

Streaming Response (Server-Sent Events)

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 @GetMapping(value = "/stream", produces = MediaType.TEXT_EVENT_STREAM_VALUE)
public Flux<String> streamChat(@RequestParam String message) {
return [Link]()
.user(message)
.stream()
.content();
}

Structured Output — Direct POJO Mapping

record ProductAnalysis(String sentiment, List<String> features, int score) {}

@PostMapping("/analyze")
public ProductAnalysis analyze(@RequestBody String review) {
return [Link]()
.user("Analyze this review: " + review)
.call()
.entity([Link]); // Auto-maps JSON to POJO
}

⚡ Interview Gold: Interviewers love when you explain the Advisor pattern in Spring AI. It lets you inject
cross-cutting logic (logging every prompt, adding memory, filtering harmful content) without touching business
code — exactly like Spring AOP.

2.2 LangChain4j — The Power Framework

LangChain4j is the most feature-rich Java AI framework. While Spring AI excels at clean integration,
LangChain4j gives you fine-grained control over chains, agents, memory, and complex RAG pipelines.

Key Abstractions
Abstraction What It Is When to Use

ChatLanguageModel Low-level model interface for direct Fine-grained control, custom retry logic
calls

AiServices Interface-based proxy — annotated Production code; clean, testable APIs

Java interfaces map to LLM calls

ConversationMemory Stores chat history (in-memory, Redis, Chatbots, multi-turn conversations

DB)

ContentRetriever Retrieves relevant docs for RAG Document Q&A, knowledge base
search

@Tool annotation Exposes any Java method as an LLM- Agents, function calling
callable tool

AiServices — Production-Grade Interface Pattern

// 1. Define the interface
interface CustomerSupport {
@SystemMessage("You are a helpful support agent for Acme Corp.")
String chat(@MemoryId String userId, @UserMessage String message);
}

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 // 2. Build it with the framework
@Bean
public CustomerSupport customerSupport(ChatLanguageModel model,
ChatMemoryStore memoryStore) {
return [Link]([Link])
.chatLanguageModel(model)
.chatMemoryProvider(id -> [Link]()
.maxMessages(20)
.chatMemoryStore(memoryStore)
.id(id).build())
.build();
}

// 3. Inject and use — it feels like a normal Spring service

@RestController
public class SupportController {
@Autowired CustomerSupport support;
@PostMapping("/support/{userId}")
public String chat(@PathVariable String userId, @RequestBody String msg) {
return [Link](userId, msg);
}
}

@Tool — Giving the AI Superpowers

// Any Java method becomes a tool the LLM can call
class OrderTools {

@Tool("Get order status by order ID")

public String getOrderStatus(String orderId) {
return [Link](orderId)
.map(o -> "Order " + orderId + " is: " + [Link]())
.orElse("Order not found");
}

@Tool("Cancel an order by order ID")

public String cancelOrder(String orderId, String reason) {
[Link](orderId, reason);
return "Order " + orderId + " cancelled: " + reason;
}
}

// The LLM reads tool descriptions and decides WHEN to call them
// User: "Where is my order #12345?" → AI calls getOrderStatus("12345")

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2.3 LLM Providers — Know Each One
You must be able to compare providers confidently. Here is a practical comparison for backend
developers:

Provider Best Model Context Java Integration Best For

OpenAI GPT-4o 128K Spring AI, LangChain4j, General purpose, tooling

direct REST ecosystem

Anthropic Claude 3.5 200K Spring AI, LangChain4j, Long docs, reasoning,
Sonnet direct REST safety

Google Gemini 1.5 Pro 1M Spring AI Vertex, Multimodal, huge

LangChain4j context

Ollama Llama 3, Mistral 8K–32K Spring AI, LangChain4j Local dev, on-prem, no
data egress

Azure OpenAI GPT-4o 128K Spring AI Azure starter Enterprise, compliance,

VNet

AWS Bedrock Claude, Titan 200K AWS SDK + Spring AWS-native, cost control

🎯 Interview Tip: Always lead with: "I choose the provider based on three factors: latency requirements, data
privacy constraints, and context window needs." Then map each to a real use case.

2.4 RAG — Retrieval-Augmented Generation

RAG is the most important pattern for enterprise AI. It gives an LLM access to your private data without
fine-tuning. Every senior AI developer must be able to build, tune, and explain RAG pipelines end-to-
end.

How RAG Works — The Full Pipeline

# Phase What Happens Java Code / Tool

1 Ingest Load docs (PDF, HTML, DB) and DocumentLoader, TextSplitter

split into chunks

2 Embed Convert each chunk to a vector EmbeddingModel (OpenAI text-

(1536-dim float array) embedding-3-small)

3 Store Store (vector, metadata, chunk PgVectorStore, Pinecone, Weaviate

text) in vector DB

4 Query Embed the user query, find top-K [Link]()

similar chunks by cosine similarity

5 Augment Inject retrieved chunks into the QuestionAnswerAdvisor,

prompt as context PromptTemplate

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 6 Generate LLM answers using only the [Link]()
provided context + question

Complete RAG Service with Spring AI + pgvector

@Service
public class RagService {

private final ChatClient chatClient;

private final VectorStore vectorStore;
private final EmbeddingModel embeddingModel;

// INGEST: Call this to load documents into vector store

public void ingestDocument(Resource docResource) {
var documents = new TikaDocumentReader(docResource).get();
var splitter = new TokenTextSplitter(800, 100, 5, 10000, true);
var chunks = [Link](documents);
[Link](chunks); // Embeds + stores automatically
}

// QUERY: Retrieves relevant context and answers the question

public String answer(String question) {
return [Link]()
.advisors(new QuestionAnswerAdvisor(vectorStore,
[Link]().withTopK(5)))
.user(question)
.call()
.content();
}
}

Advanced RAG Patterns

Pattern Problem It Solves Implementation Hint

Hybrid Search Pure vector search misses keyword- Combine BM25 (keyword) + cosine
exact matches (semantic), re-rank

HyDE Short queries produce poor Ask LLM to generate a hypothetical

embeddings doc, then embed that

Re-ranking Top-K vectors may not be most Use Cohere Rerank or cross-encoder
relevant on retrieved chunks

Parent-Child Chunks Small chunks lose context, large Retrieve small, but send parent
chunks hurt retrieval chunk to LLM

Multi-Query Single query misses relevant angles Generate 3 query variants, union
results, deduplicate

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2.5 AI Agents & Agentic Patterns
Agents are AI systems that can plan, decide, and take multi-step actions — calling tools, reading
results, and deciding next steps until a goal is reached. This is the frontier of enterprise AI.

ReAct Pattern (Reasoning + Acting)

// The agent loop: Thought → Action → Observation → Thought...

interface ResearchAgent {
@SystemMessage("""
You are a research agent. Use the tools provided to answer
the user question thoroughly. Think step by step.
""")
String research(@UserMessage String question);
}

// Tools the agent can use:

class ResearchTools {
@Tool("Search the web for information")
String webSearch(String query) { /* ... */ }

@Tool("Read a URL and return its content")

String readUrl(String url) { /* ... */ }

@Tool("Save a finding to the report")

String saveFinding(String finding) { /* ... */ }
}

Model Context Protocol (MCP)

MCP is Anthropic's open standard for connecting AI models to external tools and data sources. Think of
it as "USB-C for AI integrations" — a single protocol that any LLM can use to discover and call tools.
• MCP Server: Exposes your services as tools (REST endpoints, DBs, file systems)
• MCP Client: The LLM framework that connects and calls those tools
• Transport: stdio (local) or HTTP+SSE (remote)
• Spring AI 1.0 has native MCP client and server support

// MCP Server in Spring Boot — expose an endpoint as a tool

@Configuration
public class McpServerConfig {

@Bean
public ToolCallbackProvider orderTools(OrderService orderService) {
return [Link]()
.toolObjects(new OrderMcpTools(orderService))
.build();
}
}

// Any AI model that speaks MCP can now call your order service

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🔥 Why MCP Matters: MCP is becoming the industry standard. If you can explain "My Spring Boot
microservice acts as an MCP server, exposing domain operations that any LLM agent can discover and call"
— you will stand out in every AI architect interview.

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SECTION 3: PRODUCTION-GRADE AI PATTERNS
3.1 Prompt Engineering for Developers
Prompt engineering is not just writing good sentences — it is a systematic engineering discipline with
patterns, testing, and version control.

Technique Description When to Apply

System + User Split Persona/rules in system, specific task All production prompts — never mix
in user message concerns

Few-Shot Examples Provide 2-5 input→output examples Classification, extraction, formatting

before the real query tasks

Chain of Thought Add "Think step by step" or provide Math, logic, multi-step reasoning
reasoning template

Output Schema Specify exact JSON schema in the Structured output, POJO mapping
prompt

Persona Injection Give the model a specific role with Domain-specific tasks, tone control
expertise constraints

Negative Constraints Explicitly state what NOT to do Safety, scope limiting, preventing
hallucination

Grounding "Answer ONLY based on the provided RAG, document Q&A, factual
context" accuracy

3.2 Resilience & Error Handling

AI calls are unreliable. Rate limits, timeouts, and hallucinations are real. Production AI services must be
as resilient as any other microservice dependency.
@Service
public class ResilientAiService {

private final ChatClient primary; // OpenAI GPT-4o

private final ChatClient fallback; // Claude Haiku (cheaper, fast)
private final CircuitBreaker cb = [Link]("ai");

public String generate(String prompt) {

return [Link](() -> callWithRetry(primary, prompt))
.withCircuitBreaker(cb)
.withFallback([Link]([Link]),
e -> callWithRetry(fallback, prompt))
.decorate().get();
}

private String callWithRetry(ChatClient client, String prompt) {

return [Link](
[Link]("ai-retry"),
() -> [Link]().user(prompt).call().content()

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 ).get();
}
}

Production Checklist
• Timeout: Always set connection and read timeouts (30s–120s for LLMs)
• Retry: Exponential backoff with jitter for 429 (rate limit) and 503 errors
• Circuit Breaker: Open after N failures, half-open probe after cooldown
• Fallback: Cheaper/smaller model, or cached response, never throw to user
• Caching: Cache identical prompt+params responses with Redis (TTL: 1hr)
• Cost Budget: Track token usage per request, alert on anomalies
• Content Filtering: Input and output safety checks

3.3 Vector Databases — Deep Dive

Choosing the right vector database is critical for RAG performance. Here are the options and when to
use each:

DB Type Scale Spring AI Support Best For

pgvector Extension Medium ✅ Native starter Already using Postgres;

simple start

Pinecone Managed Huge ✅ Native starter Production SaaS,

SaaS serverless

Weaviate Dedicated Large ✅ Native starter Hybrid search, multi-

tenancy

Chroma Embedded/ Small-Med ✅ LangChain4j Local dev, prototyping

API

Qdrant Self-hosted Large ✅ LangChain4j High perf, filtering, on-

prem

Redis In-memory Medium ✅ Spring AI Low latency, existing

Redis infra

📌 Recommendation: Start with pgvector if you already use PostgreSQL — zero new infrastructure. Move to
Pinecone or Weaviate when you need >10M vectors or multi-tenant isolation.

3.4 Observability & Evaluation

You cannot improve what you cannot measure. Production AI requires tracing every prompt, measuring
quality, and controlling costs.

Concern What to Measure Tools

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Latency P50/P95/P99 per model, tokens/sec Micrometer + Prometheus + Grafana

Cost Input + output tokens per endpoint, per Custom counter beans, LangSmith
user

Quality Relevance, faithfulness, answer RAGAS framework, LangSmith evals

completeness (RAG)

Tracing Full chain trace: prompt → retrieval → LangSmith, Zipkin + Spring AI auto-
response instrumentation

Safety Harmful/off-topic output rate OpenAI Moderation API, custom

classifiers

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SECTION 4: CRACK THE AI DEVELOPER INTERVIEW
4.1 The 5-Layer Answer Framework
For every AI system design question, structure your answer across these 5 layers. Interviewers at
senior/staff level expect all 5.

# Layer What to Cover

1 Model Choice Which LLM, why (cost, latency, context), which provider, local vs cloud

2 Data Strategy RAG vs fine-tuning, embedding strategy, vector DB choice, chunk size
reasoning

3 Integration Spring AI vs LangChain4j, streaming, async, structured output, tool calling

4 Resilience Timeout, retry, circuit breaker, fallback model, caching strategy

5 Observability Metrics (cost, latency, quality), tracing, eval framework, safety filters

4.2 Top Interview Questions & Model Answers

Q1: What is RAG and when would you use it vs fine-tuning?
Model Answer: RAG is the pattern of augmenting an LLM prompt with relevant documents retrieved from a
vector store at query time. I use RAG when the knowledge is dynamic, proprietary, or large — for example,
company policies, product docs, or real-time data. Fine-tuning is better when you need to change the model's
behavior or style consistently, not just its knowledge. Fine-tuning is expensive and slow to update, so I default
to RAG for 90% of enterprise use cases, with fine-tuning reserved for domain-specific tone or format
requirements.

Q2: How do you handle hallucinations in production?

Model Answer: I use a layered approach: (1) Grounding — always instruct "answer only from the provided
context, say you don't know if unsure"; (2) Retrieval quality — improve chunk quality and re-ranking so the
LLM has good context; (3) Output validation — parse structured responses and validate key fields; (4)
Human-in-the-loop — flag low-confidence outputs for review; (5) RAGAS evaluation — continuously measure
faithfulness (does answer match context?) and relevance scores in CI.

Q3: How do you control AI costs at scale?

Model Answer: Token cost optimization is a first-class concern. I: (1) Cache semantically identical queries
with Redis (saves 40-60% on repeated queries); (2) Use tiered models — route simple queries to GPT-3.5 or
Haiku, complex ones to GPT-4o; (3) Truncate context — only send the top-3 retrieved chunks, not all 10; (4)
Stream responses to improve perceived latency without extra cost; (5) Set max_tokens limits; (6) Monitor per-
endpoint token usage and alert on spikes.

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Q4: What is the difference between Spring AI and LangChain4j?
Model Answer: Spring AI follows standard Spring conventions — autoconfiguration, [Link],
Spring Boot starters. It is the right choice when you are building within a Spring ecosystem and want clean,
convention-driven integration with Advisors for cross-cutting concerns. LangChain4j gives more control over
chains, agents, and memory patterns, and has deeper agent and tool ecosystem support. In production, I
often use both — Spring AI for the web layer and structured output, LangChain4j for complex agent pipelines.

Q5: How would you build a multi-tenant AI system?

Model Answer: Key considerations: (1) Namespace isolation in vector store — each tenant's vectors are
tagged with tenant_id and filtered at retrieval; (2) System prompt injection — tenant-specific persona and
data access rules in system message; (3) Per-tenant rate limiting and cost budgets; (4) Memory isolation —
chat history keyed by tenantId:userId; (5) Audit logging — every AI call logged with tenant, user, prompt hash
for compliance. I would implement this as a Spring Boot interceptor that enriches every AI request with tenant
context.

Q6: Explain the Model Context Protocol (MCP).

Model Answer: MCP is Anthropic's open standard that lets AI models discover and call external tools and
data sources through a unified protocol. Think of it as a universal plugin system for LLMs. An MCP Server
exposes capabilities — your microservice can expose its domain operations as MCP tools. An MCP Client
(your LLM framework) connects to servers and lets the model call them. Spring AI 1.0 has native support.
This is strategically important because it means you can build once (an MCP server) and any LLM that
speaks MCP can use your tools — not just one vendor's SDK.

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4.3 System Design Questions — Worked Examples
Design: Intelligent Customer Support Bot
Component Design Decision & Rationale

LLM Claude Haiku for fast responses (<500ms P95); escalate to Sonnet for complex
issues

Memory MessageWindowChatMemory in Redis, keyed by sessionId, 20-message window,

24hr TTL

RAG FAQ + product docs embedded in pgvector; top-5 retrieval; re-ranked by Cohere
Rerank

Tools getOrderStatus, createTicket, checkInventory — @Tool methods, LLM decides

when to call

Fallback If confidence < 0.7 (measured by LLM self-rating), route to human agent queue

Safety OpenAI Moderation on input + output; block hate/violence; log PII detection

Observability CSAT per session, avg resolution turns, escalation rate, cost per conversation in
Grafana

Design: Document Intelligence Microservice

Component Design Decision & Rationale

Ingestion Apache Tika for any file type → TikaDocumentReader; async via Kafka for large
batches

Chunking Parent-child strategy: 128-token child for retrieval, 512-token parent sent to LLM

Embedding text-embedding-3-small (cost-efficient); cache embeddings for duplicate chunks

Retrieval Hybrid: pgvector cosine + PostgreSQL full-text; reciprocal rank fusion for final
ranking

Generation GPT-4o with 128K context; structured output with citations [doc_id, page, excerpt]

Eval Pipeline RAGAS in CI: faithfulness + answer relevancy must be ≥0.85 on golden Q&A
dataset

4.4 Must-Know Concepts Cheatsheet

Concept 1-Line Definition You Must Nail

Temperature Controls randomness: 0 = deterministic, 1 = creative. Use 0 for extraction, 0.7

for generation.

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Context Window Max tokens (input + output) the model processes at once. Bigger = costlier. Fit
your RAG chunks.

Embedding Dense vector representing semantic meaning. Similar texts → similar vectors
→ enables semantic search.

Tool Calling LLM decides to call a function with arguments based on tool descriptions. Not
random — guided by descriptions.

Few-Shot Providing examples in the prompt. 2-5 examples dramatically improve

formatting and classification tasks.

Chunking Strategy How you split docs: token-based (simple), semantic (smart), hierarchical
(parent-child). Chunk size = retrieval accuracy tradeoff.

RAGAS RAG evaluation framework: measures faithfulness, answer relevancy, context

precision, context recall.

Guardrails Input/output safety checks. Input: block injection, PII. Output: block
hallucinations, harmful content.

Semantic Cache Cache not by exact key but by embedding similarity. Query "What is the
price?" hits cache for "How much does it cost?"

Agentic Loop LLM plans → calls tool → sees result → plans again. Repeats until goal met or
max iterations reached.

MCP Open protocol (Anthropic) for AI models to discover/call external tools. "USB-C
for LLM integrations."

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SECTION 5: 90-DAY LEARNING ROADMAP
Month 1: Foundation (Weeks 1–4)
Week Focus Build Done When

Week 1 Spring AI basics, OpenAI API, Chat REST endpoint with Can stream responses via
prompt engineering streaming SSE

Week 2 Structured output, Data extraction LLM returns typed Java

PromptTemplate, system microservice (invoice → objects
prompts POJO)

Week 3 pgvector setup, embeddings, Document Q&A service RAG answering from your
basic RAG (PDF + question) own docs

Week 4 LangChain4j AiServices, Multi-turn chatbot with per- Bot remembers context
@MemoryId, user memory across messages
ConversationMemory

Month 2: Advanced (Weeks 5–8)

Week Focus Build Done When

Week 5 @Tool annotation, agent Order management agent Agent calls right tools
patterns, ReAct loop with 3+ tools autonomously

Week 6 Advanced RAG: hybrid search, Production RAG service Faithfulness score ≥0.85 on
re-ranking, HyDE with RAGAS eval test set

Week 7 Resilience: retry, circuit breaker, Wrap all AI calls with Zero user-visible errors
fallback, caching Resilience4j under load test

Week 8 Observability: Micrometer, Grafana dashboard: Dashboard shows all 5 key

LangSmith, cost tracking latency, cost, quality metrics

Month 3: Expert (Weeks 9–12)

Week Focus Build Done When

Week 9 MCP: build an MCP server with Expose your domain as Claude Desktop can call
Spring Boot MCP tools your service

Week 10 Multi-agent systems, Research agent that Agent completes 3-step

LangGraph4j workflows searches + synthesizes research autonomously

Week 11 Guardrails, multi-tenancy, Add safety layer to All safety checks passing in
security, PII production service CI

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 Week 12 Portfolio project + mock End-to-end: RAG + Agent + Can present full system
interviews MCP + Observability design in 20 min

Essential Resources
Resource What You Get URL

Spring AI Docs Official reference, all starters and [Link]/spring-ai

samples

LangChain4j Docs All integrations, AiServices deep dive [Link]

RAGAS Paper RAG evaluation framework reference [Link]/abs/2309.15217

MCP Spec Official Model Context Protocol spec [Link]

Anthropic Cookbook Real code examples, patterns, best [Link]/anthropics/anthropic-

practices cookbook

OpenAI Cookbook Advanced RAG, agents, fine-tuning [Link]

recipes

LangSmith Free tier for prompt tracing and evals [Link]

🚀 Final Advice: Build, don't just read. Every week must end with a working service in GitHub. When you
walk into an interview and say "here is the GitHub repo" — that conversation is already 50% won. Your
Spring Boot background is a superpower; you already understand DI, resilience, and production engineering.
You just need to add the AI layer.

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