How to Build a Gemini AI Endpoint in Spring Boot Without Extra Dependencies

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A developer tutorial demonstrates how to integrate Google's Gemini AI into a Spring Boot application using only built-in Java tools, without any AI-specific frameworks. The approach uses Java's native HttpClient and Jackson — already bundled with Spring Boot 3.x — to make direct REST calls to Gemini's generateContent API. Developers obtain a free API key from Google AI Studio, store it as an environment variable, and send a JSON payload to receive AI-generated responses. The resulting controller condenses the core logic to just a few lines by manually building the request, calling the endpoint, and parsing the JSON response tree. The author shares the full source code on GitHub as a starting point for understanding AI integration at the HTTP level before adopting higher-level abstractions.

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