
AI is no longer just about chatbots. The next generation of intelligent systems can reason, plan, and take action — and they're being built right now inside enterprise Java stacks.
This course teaches you how to build Agentic AI systems using Spring Boot and the Model Context Protocol (MCP) — the emerging standard for connecting large language models to real-world tools and services. You'll go far beyond basic prompt-and-response patterns and learn how to design AI agents that autonomously call tools, make decisions across multiple steps, and integrate cleanly into production Java backends.
What you'll build: You'll create a fully working AI-powered financial transaction classifier backed by a Spring Boot MCP Server — with real tool registration, dynamic category resolution via "listCategories" and "createCategory", and a robust agentic loop that handles edge cases production systems actually face.
What makes this course different: Most AI courses live in Python notebooks. This one lives where your production code lives — in a Spring Boot application, using the Anthropic Java SDK and Spring AI. You'll learn not just the happy path but the hard parts: why tool calls silently get skipped, how BeanOutputConverter conflicts with agentic prompts, how to structure two-phase prompts that force the model to call tools before producing output.
What you'll learn:
How the Model Context Protocol works and why it's becoming the industry standard
Registering and invoking MCP tools inside a Spring Boot application
Designing prompts that reliably trigger tool-calling loops
Debugging agentic failures — token limits, output conflicts, and silent fallbacks
Parsing and validating LLM responses safely in a Java backend
Building for production: error handling, observability, and cost control
This course is for you if: You're a Java or Spring Boot developer who wants to build real AI-powered features — not toy demos — inside the tech stack you already use at work.
By the end, you won't just understand Agentic AI in theory. You'll have shipped one.