Building Flexible LLM Apps with Spring AI: A Vendor-Agnostic Approach

Spring AI abstracts away vendor lock-in by providing a unified API across multiple LLM providers—OpenAI, Google Gemini, Anthropic Claude, and Ollama. Understanding its core components (ChatClient, PromptTemplate, Advisors) is essential for developers who want to build production-ready AI applications that remain flexible as the AI landscape evolves and aren't chained to a single provider.