advancedSpring AI — Tool Calling, Agents & Production

What is MCP (Model Context Protocol)? How does Spring AI integrate with it?

MCP is an open protocol (from Anthropic) for connecting LLMs to external tools and data sources in a standardized, language-agnostic way. Spring AI provides both an MCP client and server — a Spring Boot app can expose its @Tool methods as an MCP server, discoverable by any MCP-compatible AI agent.

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