--- title: Craig Walls, author of Spring AI in Action | daily.dev description: Craig Walls, author of Spring in Action and Spring AI in Action, discusses his book covering Spring AI 1.0, the new features in Spring AI 2.0 (MCP annotations,... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/craig-walls-author-of-spring-ai-in-action-whry029to twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Craig Walls, author of Spring AI in Action | daily.dev og:description: Craig Walls, author of Spring in Action and Spring AI in Action, discusses his book covering Spring AI 1.0, the new features in Spring AI 2.0 (MCP annotations,... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/craig-walls-author-of-spring-ai-in-action-whry029to og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/whry029TO.png og:image:alt: Craig Walls, author of Spring AI in Action og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Craig Walls, author of Spring AI in Action **[Coffee \+ Software](https://daily.dev/sources/coffee-software)** · 53 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Craig Walls, author of Spring in Action and Spring AI in Action, discusses his book covering Spring AI 1.0, the new features in Spring AI 2.0 (MCP annotations, agentic patterns, skills), and the distinction between building AI into applications versus using AI to build applications. 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