A hands-on introduction to Spring AI for Java developers, showing how to integrate OpenAI's GPT models into a Spring Boot application. Covers setting up the project via Spring Initializr, using the ChatClient abstraction to send prompts, building reusable PromptTemplates with SystemMessage and UserMessage, and parsing LLM responses into typed Java objects using BeanOutputConverter, MapOutputConverter, and ListOutputConverter. Includes working code examples and curl-tested REST endpoints throughout.
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Introduction to Open AI and Spring AICreate Spring AI ProjectInteracting with Open AI using ChatClientUsing PromptTemplatesUsing OutputConvertersConclusionSort: