Rod Johnson: Embabel & Agentic AI on the JVM | Docker’s AI Guide to the Galaxy

Description

Spring Framework creator Rod Johnson joins host Oleg Šelajev to unpack Embabel—an agentic AI framework for the JVM built on Spring/Spring AI—with deep dives into deterministic planning, strong typing, and domain modeling. Live demos show a Java agent template, a reviewer workflow, and a Kotlin travel-planner that mixes multiple LLMs and real tools via the Docker Desktop MCP gateway—including why some instructions belong in code, not prompts. What you’ll learn: -- Why bring agentic AI to where enterprise logic already lives (Java/.NET/Node), not force a Python stack -- How actions ↔ goals + a deterministic planner make multi-step agents explainable and reliable -- The power of type-safe prompts & typed outputs with Spring AI -- Practical patterns: cost tracking, human-in-the-loop, tool calling vs. coding side-effects (e.g., Google Maps links) #Docker #AIGuideToTheGalaxy #RodJohnson #Spring #Java #Embabel #AgenticAI #SpringBoot #LLM #MCP