Java MCP server with Streamable HTTP, Netty transports, and stateless deployment
Java MCP server supporting Streamable HTTP and Netty transports, designed for stateless deployment.
Background
- MCP (Model Context Protocol) is an open standard from Anthropic that lets AI models like Claude talk to external tools, data sources, and services, competing with OpenAI's function-calling approach.
- This project is a Java implementation of an MCP server. Most MCP tooling is in Python or TypeScript; a Java version matters for companies integrating AI agents into existing JVM backends (banking, enterprise) without adding a new runtime.
- "Streamable HTTP" and "Netty transports" enable real-time bidirectional streaming rather than fixed request-response, useful for long-running tasks.
- "Stateless deployment" means each request is self-contained, suiting containerized, horizontally scaling environments like Kubernetes.
- The project is open source, still in active development.