rivet VS initializr

But now coming to today's tool, let's talk about a topic that comes and goes, but it's always fun to play around with. I'm referring to AI; as you know, I'm not an AI-addicted person, but I like to have my share of fun with it! And a few days ago I came across the program that I am presenting to you today which aims to be very interesting and fun! Rivet, this is the name of the tool of this week, is a visual development environment for AI agents. But in what sense? Well, once you download the software, you will have a drag and drop interface to create a flow of information that can interact with various LLMs, whether it's GPT, Google models, or even Open models like Ollama running locally. It can handle all the classic control flows (if, loop etc.) and can integrate JS functions directly into it or import them from the project where we decide to incorporate it.

https://rivet.ironcladapp.com

The best way, for generating a ready-to-run application in Java you can use the Spring Boot Initializr tool.

curl --location 'https://start.spring.io/starter.zip?type=maven-project&language=java&bootVersion=3.2.2&baseDir=ms-xcoffee&groupId=com.xcoffee&artifactId=ms-xcoffee&name=ms-xcoffee&description=Demo%20project%20for%20Spring%20Boot&packageName=com.xcoffee.ms-xcoffee&packaging=jar&javaVersion=21&dependencies=webflux%2Clombok%2Cvalidation' | tar -xzvf -

In this segment we will create a basic Spring boot app from Spring Initializer. Add the below dependencies:

Add the following MongoDB dependencies in your pom.xml or use spring initializer and select the Spring Data MongoDB dependency:

I created all of these applications using start.spring.io's REST API and HTTPie.

An easy way to create the skeleton project is to visit Spring Initializr, I set the Project to Gradle - Groovy, Language to Java, and add Spring Web dependency. Then it's just to generate the project and unpack it.

Create a new Spring Boot application using the Spring Initializr. You can use the web version or the curl command below. Use the default for most of the options. For the dependencies, select web, and okta. For the build tool, select Gradle.

I will start with a simple example of a cloud function, which is the same as a rest endpoint in the classical spring boot web application. You can create a project from your favorite IDE or from Spring Initliazr.