How to build AI-ready applications with Quarkus

222 · Red Hat · April 7, 2025, 7:36 a.m.
Summary
This blog post provides a comprehensive guide on building AI-ready, cloud-native Java applications using Quarkus and LangChain4j. It walks through the development of a project called WealthWise, which is a financial guidance app integrating AI capabilities such as chatbots and retrieval-augmented generation to deliver insightful financial advice. The post details the setup process, including repository cloning, database management, and AI model integration while highlighting the key features of Quarkus like Dev Mode for real-time development, simplified persistence with Panache, and the observability offered through the Dev UI.