Up until recently, Python devs were getting all the AI love while Java devs were left hanging. But as we reported on ADTmag recently, that’s about to change, thanks to two things: Quarkus (fast, cloud-native Java framework) + LangChain4j (Java port of the LangChain AI framework).
https://adtmag.com/blogs/watersworks/2025/08/java-and-ai.aspx
IBM just dropped a tutorial showing how to build a REST service that spits out poems with <50 lines of code. As for the “AI integration” part: Two annotations and a config file. That’s it.
The example is silly (poems about colors), but the pattern is what matters. Annotate an interface, configure the connection, deploy. You could swap the poems for document analysis, chatbots, code generation…basically whatever you want.