From Script Kiddies to Enterprise AI: Why Java Is Winning the AI Race

🎉 MILESTONE EPISODE! For our 200th episode, we're doing something special - hosting TWO legendary guests: James Ward (AWS) and Josh Long (Spring/Broadcom) to discuss why Java is dominating enterprise AI development. 🚀 BREAKING: Spring AI 2.0.0 was released after we recorded this episode - marking a major milestone for Java AI development! Why This Matters While everyone talks about Python for AI, enterprises are quietly building production systems with Java and Spring AI. A recent Azul study shows 62% of surveyed companies are using Java/JVM for their AI solutions - and for good reason. What You'll Learn ✅ Spring AI 2.0 Deep Dive - More than an LLM wrapper, it's a complete framework with type safety, observability, and enterprise features built-in ✅ Performance Benchmarks - Java MCP SDK delivers 0.835ms latency (vs Python's 26.45ms) and handles 1.5M+ requests/second (vs Python's 280K) ✅ Agent Skills & MCP - How to package and distribute agent capabilities using James Ward's new Skills Jars project ✅ Embable Framework - Goal-oriented and utility-based planners for building reliable agentic systems ✅ AWS Agent Core - Running Spring AI agents on serverless infrastructure with memory, browser support, and code interpreters Timestamps 0:00 - Welcome & Episode 200 Celebration 2:30 - Why Java for AI? The Enterprise Perspective 8:00 - Spring AI Fundamentals & Architecture 18:00 - Agent Skills Standard & Skills Jars 27:00 - MCP vs Agent Skills: When to Use What 31:00 - Embable Framework for Reliable Agents 37:00 - Performance Benchmarks: Java vs Python 42:00 - AWS Agent Core Integration 49:00 - Getting Started & Resources Resources 🔗 Spring AI: https://spring.io/projects/spring-ai 🔗 Start Building: https://start.spring.io 🔗 Embable Framework: https://embable.ai 🔗 Skills Jars: https://github.com/jamesward/skills-jars 🔗 Coffee and Software (Josh's Channel):    / @coffeesoftware   🔗 James Ward: https://jamesward.com 🔗 Josh Long: https://joshlong.com Our Guests James Ward - Principal Developer Advocate at AWS, typed functional programming advocate, creator of Skills Jars Josh Long - Spring Developer Advocate at Broadcom, Java Champion, host of "A Bootiful Podcast" Upcoming Events 📍 Voxxed Days Zurich (late March) - Josh Long About AWS Developer Podcast We explore the future of software development through three series: Stories from the Trenches (customer builds), Community Highlights (AWS Heroes & leaders), and Code Forward (industry luminaries). This episode is part of our Code Forward series. If you found this valuable, subscribe for more conversations about serverless, databases, devtools, and how AI is transforming the SDLC. Share with developers exploring enterprise AI!