1. Right now, working on standing up an MCP server in Java. Not using the Spring Boot support at the moment, but rather setting up embedded Tomcat and doing it the more "low level" way just for didactic purposes. I'm sure I'll use Spring Boot once I get deeper into all of this.
2. Plowing through the "AI Agents in Action" book. I'm just wrapping up the section on AutoGen and about to move into crew.ai stuff.
3. Reading a book on Software Product Line Engineering.
4. I have an older project that's Grails based that I let linger without any attention for a really long time. I'm working on updating it to run on the latest Grails and Java versions and also writing some automated smoke tests.
Before starting this book I'd worked with LangChain, LangGraph, LlamaIndex, Ollama, the OpenAI API, etc. to varying degrees. What's been good about this book (so far) is that it has covered a number of technologies I had not previously explored: AutoGen, Crew.ai, SemanticKernel, etc.
The downside though, is that it doesn't go super deep into any of those things. So for me, it's been good to at least get a taste of what each is useful for and to serve as a starting point for further explorations. But just be aware that you won't become, say, a Crew.ai expert or whatever, from working through this. Still, I think it's valuable and I'm going to keep grinding through it. In Chapter 5 now, I think.
1. Right now, working on standing up an MCP server in Java. Not using the Spring Boot support at the moment, but rather setting up embedded Tomcat and doing it the more "low level" way just for didactic purposes. I'm sure I'll use Spring Boot once I get deeper into all of this.
2. Plowing through the "AI Agents in Action" book. I'm just wrapping up the section on AutoGen and about to move into crew.ai stuff.
3. Reading a book on Software Product Line Engineering.
4. I have an older project that's Grails based that I let linger without any attention for a really long time. I'm working on updating it to run on the latest Grails and Java versions and also writing some automated smoke tests.