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. 👉 Don’t forget to like, share, and subscribe for more Spring + AI content! #SpringBoot #SpringAI #OpenAI #Java #AI #PromptEngineering #SpringFramework Join this channel to get access to perks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_mRM-418WkU2SgpvNG3jKA/join 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