by Horatiu Dan

It’s been more than 20 years since Spring Framework appeared in the software development landscape and 10 since Spring Boot version 1.0 was released. By now nobody should have any doubt that Spring has created a unique style through which developers are freed from repetitive tasks and left to focus on the business value delivery. As years passed, Spring’s technical depth has continually increased, covering a wide variety of development areas and technologies. On the other hand, its technical breadth has been continually expanded as more focused solutions have been experimented, proof of concepts created and ultimately promoted under the projects’ umbrella (towards the technical depth).

One such example is the new Spring AI project which, according to its reference documentation, aims to ease the development when a generative artificial intelligence layer is aimed to be incorporated into applications. Once again, developer...