Library / SDK
Agents & Orchestration
Spring AI
1AI 2framework 3for 4Spring 5Boot 6applications
the six Ws · specification
W1
Who
Maintained by the Spring team at Broadcom/VMware.
W2
What
An AI application framework for the Spring ecosystem with portable providers.
W3
Where
A Java and Spring Boot library with starters.
W4
When
Reach for it when adding AI to Spring Boot applications.
W5
Why
Familiar Spring abstractions with portable model providers.
W6
With
Spring Boot, Java, and LLM or vector providers.
W7
Watch
Vendor-backed (Spring/Broadcom); Apache-2.0 library, maturing. Runs in your app.
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