MCP Java SDK
ActiveDescription
Official Java SDK for the Model Context Protocol, with Spring-style APIs, reactive and blocking clients, and Maven Central distribution.
Key Features
- Official Java SDK distributed via Maven Central, kept in lockstep with the MCP spec
- Spring Boot starter for auto-configured MCP servers and clients
- Reactive Stream-based async client built on Project Reactor
- Annotation-driven tool and resource definition mirroring the TypeScript SDK
- Server-Sent Events and Streamable HTTP transports for browser and server integrations
- Used by Spring AI and other enterprise agent frameworks
Use Cases
💡 Adding MCP server capabilities to Spring Boot microservices
💡 Exposing internal Java tools to LLM agents via a typed MCP client
💡 Building reactive MCP backends that handle high-concurrency tool calls
💡 Authoring MCP servers with annotation-driven tool definitions in JVM languages
💡 Bridging Apache Camel or Kafka pipelines to MCP-compatible tool surfaces
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Quick Start
// pom.xml
<dependency>
<groupId>io.modelcontextprotocol</groupId>
<artifactId>mcp-sdk</artifactId>
<version>0.9.0</version>
</dependency>
// McpServer.java
@McpServer("demo")
public class DemoServer {
@McpTool(name = "echo")
public String echo(String input) { return input; }
}