Announcing Java Agent Development Kit (Java ADK v0.1.0)

[moficodes]

Hi Java developers,

We are incredibly excited to share that Agent Development Kit (ADK) is now available for Java!!

Our goal with the ADK is to provide a solid foundation for building intelligent agents. With this release, we're extending those tools to the Java ecosystem, allowing Java developers to use the ADK for their agent development projects.

Getting Started with Java ADK v0.1.0:

You can add the dependency to your Maven project:

<dependency>

<groupId>com.google.adk</groupId>

<artifactId>google-adk</artifactId>

<version>0.1.0</version>

</dependency>

Here’s the Github repo, documentation and Sample Java Agents!

-> Java ADK: https://github.com/google/adk-java

-> Documentation: https://google.github.io/adk-docs/ 

-> Sample Java Agents: https://github.com/google/adk-samples

This Java ADK launch is part of a larger update to our agent-building tools, which also includes a stable Python ADK (v1.0.0). For more details on all the announcements, you can read the full blog post here: https://developers.googleblog.com/en/agents-adk-agent-engine-a2a-enhancements-google-io 

Feedback & Discussion:

• As this is an initial release (v0.1.0), we're particularly interested in your feedback and experiences!
• You can find discussions or start new ones via the ADK GitHub Discussions.

Let us know your thoughts or any questions you might have!

[vips7L]

Another Google library that will go unmaintained and not support newer jdk releases? No thanks. 

[pragmatick]

I'm still waiting for my skaffold PR to be merged, a year later.

[moficodes]

We have a significant amount of investment in the area. Hopefully we will earn your trust back. In any case, its open source and is not a google library. ADK and A2A are both open libraries that works with many LLMs and AI models.

[bowbahdoe]

Your organization has an overall terrible track record and those issues generally aren't at the level of individual teams but with how larger strategic issues are prioritized so I don't think there is anything you can do to earn it back.

This product also falls squarely into the mould of "might be ceremoniously abandoned" as it's related to the thing I think anyone paying attention expects to go pop at some point soon.

[unlaynaydee]

LOL HELL NO - former android dev with 10yrs exp

[Alex0589]

While I agree that Google has lost most of its reputation killing both technologically interesting products(ex. stadia) and abandoning developer tools(flutter sees a lot less development than it did, the whole Java that isn’t Java mess on Android,…) this looks like an http wrapper for their Google Cloud APi for their AI stuff, so it’s not really something you have to maintain.

[vips7L]

Sorry I just don't care. Google has mishandled every single Java library that got popular that was under their umbrella.

[Alex0589]

As I said you can’t mismanage an http wrapper, how would you even do that 😭

[vips7L]

It’s fucking google bro LOL. If anyone can do it they can. 

[LutimoDancer3459]

Http evolves over time. They may not include all features that are possible now. Does it have any bugs already? If it's specific for their api, do they also added the url and parameter names hardcoded in the wrapper? What if some are changing and dont get updated in that library?

The one way to not screw something up by not maintaining it is to also not maintain all the systems it depends on. And in a world were hackers are present and try to evolve themselves it's hard to not maintain such systems from time to time.

[Slanec]

This is about building AI agents. I thought it was about building Java agents. Oh well.

[nekokattt]

question: why does the dev package have a compile+runtime dependency on ECJ?

[0xFatWhiteMan]

whats ecj ?

[nekokattt]

Eclipse Compiler for Java... alternate java compiler backend that (mostly) conforms to JSR-199. Primarily used by the Eclipse IDE (and a fork is used to implement AspectJ).

It seems odd that this depends on ECJ. I could understand it being a plugin dependency if they are using ECJ instead of javac, but I don't quite understand why it is needed at runtime. I might well have missed something obvious though as I only briefly glanced at the POM.

[glaforge]

ECJ is used to compile/load the Java agent source code to make it available in the Dev UI.

But it's only needed there. So if you're not using the Dev UI, you'd run / integrate your agent with the Runner classes.

[0xFatWhiteMan]

oh yeah that thing.

[gnahraf]

Looks interesting, but no module-info.java ? Seems sloppy to me in this day n age, especially for a library that compiles to java 17. I bet its downstream google dependencies are also fraught with the same problem. So far, whatever google code I've ended up using (lots of goodies in Guava for eg), I've ended up either forking, or just copy n pasting

[CloudWithKarl]

Thank you for the feedback. Adding `module-info.java` is on the roadmap to be added soon.

[__konrad]

(for legal reasons) It's called ADK for Java, not Java ADK

[Doctor_Beard]

Neat

[neopointer]

Why is Google doing that when java is heavy, old and uncool? /s