Spring AI Tutorial: Integrate OpenAI with Spring Boot | Prompt Engineering Explained

In this tutorial, we dive into integrating OpenAI's models using Spring AI, the new way to build intelligent Java applications.

???? What You’ll Learn:
✅ How to generate and configure your OpenAI API key
✅ How to build a conversational chat interface using Spring AI
✅ What is prompting and how to engineer better prompts
✅ Understanding user, system, assistant & function prompts
✅ How to map AI responses to List, Map, and custom Java Beans using Spring converters

Whether you're building an AI assistant or adding smart features to your app, this video gives you the foundation to get started with AI in Java the right way.

???? No prior AI experience needed – perfect for backend Java developers ready to explore the future.

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table of content:
00:00 Intro
02:56 OpenAI & Spring AI documentation
06:34 Create a new Spring project
08:28 Walk through the project and configure OpenAI
12:40 First communication with the AI model
17:43 Test the integration
20:41 What is prompting and why it matters
22:43 Different types of prompts
26:10 System prompt
34:07 Assistant prompt
43:06 ListOutputConverter
49:00 MapOutputConverter
51:43 BeanOutputConverter
54:37 List BeanOutputConverter
58:23 Outro