AI Augmentation Techniques with Liberty

Building production-grade AI requires more than a model—it requires an ecosystem. IBM technologies such as Liberty provide this ecosystem for the modern enterprise. Paired with Jakarta EE, it creates a formidable platform for AI augmentation. In this session, we will demonstrate how to orchestrate enterprise-ready AI agents using Jakarta EE technologies in combination with AI augmentation approaches such as tools, skills, and the Model Context Protocol (MCP). We'll showcase seamless integration with IBM Bob to create AI-augmented development workflows that accelerate productivity while maintaining enterprise-grade quality. Of course, all demos run on Liberty from IBM.

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1. TEC-1894 AI Augmentation Techniques with Liberty YK Chang IBM Ivar Grimstad Eclipse Foundation No AI was harmed in th ti th crea on of e ese slides
3. Agenda A History Lesson Jakarta EE 11 Jakarta EE with IBM Bob AI Augmentation COPYRIGHT (C) 2026, ECLIPSE FOUNDATION, INC. | THIS WORK IS LICENSED UNDER A CREATIVE COMMONS ATTRIBUTION 4.0 INTERNATIONAL LICENSE (CC BY 4.0)
4. A History Lesson… COPYRIGHT (C) 2026, ECLIPSE FOUNDATION, INC. | THIS WORK IS LICENSED UNDER A CREATIVE COMMONS ATTRIBUTION 4.0 INTERNATIONAL LICENSE (CC BY 4.0)
5. JSR 330 1995 1999 2004 2006 2009 2014 2017 2020 2024/5 javax.* -> jakarta.*
6. Jakarta EE COPYRIGHT (C) 2026, ECLIPSE FOUNDATION, INC. | THIS WORK IS LICENSED UNDER A CREATIVE COMMONS ATTRIBUTION 4.0 INTERNATIONAL LICENSE (CC BY 4.0)
7. Final Speci cation Speci cation Document Speci API TCK Compatible Implementation(s) fi fi fi COPYRIGHT (C) 2026, ECLIPSE FOUNDATION, INC. | THIS WORK IS LICENSED UNDER A CREATIVE COMMONS ATTRIBUTION 4.0 INTERNATIONAL LICENSE (CC BY 4.0)
9. Jakarta Pro JakartaEEEE1111Web Platform Authentication 3.1 Data 1.0 Authorization 3.0 Concurrency 3.1 Persistence 3.2 RESTful Web Services 4.0 Activation 2.1 CDI 4.1 Pages 4.0 JSON Processing 2.1 Batch 2.1 Expression Language 6.0 WebSocket 2.2 JSON Binding 3.0 Connectors 2.1 Faces 4.1 Validation 3.1 Annotations 3.0 Mail 2.1 Security 4.0 Debugging Support 2.0 Interceptors 2.2 Messaging 3.1 Servlet 6.1 Enterprise Beans Lite 4.0 Dependency Injection 2.0 Enterprise Beans 4.0 Standard Tag Libraries 3.0 Transactions 2.0 CDI Lite 4.1 Updated Not Updated fi New
10. Jakarta EE 11 Core Web Pro le Authentication 3.1 Data 1.0 Concurrency 3.1 Persistence 3.2 RESTful Web Services 4.0 CDI 4.1 Pages 4.0 JSON Processing 2.1 Expression Language 6.0 WebSocket 2.2 JSON Binding 3.0 Faces 4.1 Validation 3.1 Annotations 3.0 Security 4.0 Debugging Support 2.0 Interceptors 2.2 Servlet 6.1 Enterprise Beans Lite 4.0 Dependency Injection 2.0 Standard Tag Libraries 3.0 Transactions 2.0 CDI Lite 4.1 Updated Not Updated fi fi New
11. Jakarta EE 11 Core Pro le RESTful Web Services 4.0 JSON Processing 2.1 JSON Binding 3.0 Annotations 3.0 Interceptors 2.2 Dependency Injection 2.0 CDI Lite 4.1 Updated Not Updated fi New
12. 2020 javax.* -> jakarta.* 2022 2024/5 2026 Jakarta EE Core Pro le Java 21 Embrace Records Jakarta Data CDI Centric Removals and Deprecations Java 25 Jakarta Query Jakarta NoSQL CDI Centric Deprecations fi COPYRIGHT (C) 2026, ECLIPSE FOUNDATION, INC. | THIS WORK IS LICENSED UNDER A CREATIVE COMMONS ATTRIBUTION 4.0 INTERNATIONAL LICENSE (CC BY 4.0)
13. Jakarta Jakarta EE and COPYRIGHT (C) 2026, ECLIPSE FOUNDATION, INC. | THIS WORK IS LICENSED UNDER A CREATIVE COMMONS ATTRIBUTION 4.0 INTERNATIONAL LICENSE (CC BY 4.0)
14. Application AI
15. COPYRIGHT (C) 2025, ECLIPSE FOUNDATION, INC. | THIS WORK IS LICENSED UNDER A CREATIVE COMMONS ATTRIBUTION 4.0 INTERNATIONAL LICENSE (CC BY 4.0)
16. Agent Work ow @Trigger @Decision @Action @Outcome A CDI Event starts the work ow Decide wether and how to proceed Carry out a step Mark the end of the work ow https://jakartaee.github.io/agentic-ai/ fl fl fl COPYRIGHT (C) 2026, ECLIPSE FOUNDATION, INC. | THIS WORK IS LICENSED UNDER A CREATIVE COMMONS ATTRIBUTION 4.0 INTERNATIONAL LICENSE (CC BY 4.0)
17. Demo COPYRIGHT (C) 2026, ECLIPSE FOUNDATION, INC. | THIS WORK IS LICENSED UNDER A CREATIVE COMMONS ATTRIBUTION 4.0 INTERNATIONAL LICENSE (CC BY 4.0)
18. https://github.com/langchain4j/langchain4j-cdi
19. https://omnihai.org COPYRIGHT (C) 2026, ECLIPSE FOUNDATION, INC. | THIS WORK IS LICENSED UNDER A CREATIVE COMMONS ATTRIBUTION 4.0 INTERNATIONAL LICENSE (CC BY 4.0)
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21. Application Open AI
22. Augmentation Techniques COPYRIGHT (C) 2026, ECLIPSE FOUNDATION, INC. | THIS WORK IS LICENSED UNDER A CREATIVE COMMONS ATTRIBUTION 4.0 INTERNATIONAL LICENSE (CC BY 4.0)
23. Basic Chat COPYRIGHT (C) 2026, ECLIPSE FOUNDATION, INC. | THIS WORK IS LICENSED UNDER A CREATIVE COMMONS ATTRIBUTION 4.0 INTERNATIONAL LICENSE (CC BY 4.0)
24. Basic Chat “Hello, how are you?” APP LLM COPYRIGHT (C) 2026, ECLIPSE FOUNDATION, INC. | THIS WORK IS LICENSED UNDER A CREATIVE COMMONS ATTRIBUTION 4.0 INTERNATIONAL LICENSE (CC BY 4.0)
25. Demo COPYRIGHT (C) 2026, ECLIPSE FOUNDATION, INC. | THIS WORK IS LICENSED UNDER A CREATIVE COMMONS ATTRIBUTION 4.0 INTERNATIONAL LICENSE (CC BY 4.0)
26. Basic Chat “Hello, how are you?” APP “Hi! I’m doing well, thanks for asking. How can I help you today?” COPYRIGHT (C) 2026, ECLIPSE FOUNDATION, INC. | THIS WORK IS LICENSED UNDER A CREATIVE COMMONS ATTRIBUTION 4.0 INTERNATIONAL LICENSE (CC BY 4.0) LLM
27. Memory COPYRIGHT (C) 2026, ECLIPSE FOUNDATION, INC. | THIS WORK IS LICENSED UNDER A CREATIVE COMMONS ATTRIBUTION 4.0 INTERNATIONAL LICENSE (CC BY 4.0)
28. Memory “My name is Ivar” “Nice to meet you, Ivar! How can I help you today?” APP LLM “What is my name?” “I don’t know your name yet. I don’t have access to personal info unless you share it.” COPYRIGHT (C) 2026, ECLIPSE FOUNDATION, INC. | THIS WORK IS LICENSED UNDER A CREATIVE COMMONS ATTRIBUTION 4.0 INTERNATIONAL LICENSE (CC BY 4.0)
29. Demo COPYRIGHT (C) 2026, ECLIPSE FOUNDATION, INC. | THIS WORK IS LICENSED UNDER A CREATIVE COMMONS ATTRIBUTION 4.0 INTERNATIONAL LICENSE (CC BY 4.0)
30. Memory “My name is Ivar” “Nice to meet you, Ivar! How can I help you today?” APP LLM “What is my name?” “Your name is Ivar.” COPYRIGHT (C) 2026, ECLIPSE FOUNDATION, INC. | THIS WORK IS LICENSED UNDER A CREATIVE COMMONS ATTRIBUTION 4.0 INTERNATIONAL LICENSE (CC BY 4.0)
31. Why Memory? COPYRIGHT (C) 2026, ECLIPSE FOUNDATION, INC. | THIS WORK IS LICENSED UNDER A CREATIVE COMMONS ATTRIBUTION 4.0 INTERNATIONAL LICENSE (CC BY 4.0)
32. AI + Memory Personalisation Adaptivity Context Optimisation COPYRIGHT (C) 2026, ECLIPSE FOUNDATION, INC. | THIS WORK IS LICENSED UNDER A CREATIVE COMMONS ATTRIBUTION 4.0 INTERNATIONAL LICENSE (CC BY 4.0)
33. Tools COPYRIGHT (C) 2026, ECLIPSE FOUNDATION, INC. | THIS WORK IS LICENSED UNDER A CREATIVE COMMONS ATTRIBUTION 4.0 INTERNATIONAL LICENSE (CC BY 4.0)
34. Tools “What time is it?” APP “Sorry — I don’t have access to the current time.” COPYRIGHT (C) 2026, ECLIPSE FOUNDATION, INC. | THIS WORK IS LICENSED UNDER A CREATIVE COMMONS ATTRIBUTION 4.0 INTERNATIONAL LICENSE (CC BY 4.0) LLM
35. Demo COPYRIGHT (C) 2026, ECLIPSE FOUNDATION, INC. | THIS WORK IS LICENSED UNDER A CREATIVE COMMONS ATTRIBUTION 4.0 INTERNATIONAL LICENSE (CC BY 4.0)
36. Tools “What time is it?” “{ "tool": "getCurrentDateTime"}” APP getCurrentDateTime() “2026-05-08 10:45:58 ET” “It’s 10:45:58 on May 8, 2026 (your local time).” COPYRIGHT (C) 2026, ECLIPSE FOUNDATION, INC. | THIS WORK IS LICENSED UNDER A CREATIVE COMMONS ATTRIBUTION 4.0 INTERNATIONAL LICENSE (CC BY 4.0) LLM
37. Why Tools? COPYRIGHT (C) 2026, ECLIPSE FOUNDATION, INC. | THIS WORK IS LICENSED UNDER A CREATIVE COMMONS ATTRIBUTION 4.0 INTERNATIONAL LICENSE (CC BY 4.0)
38. AI + Tools Action Precision Data COPYRIGHT (C) 2026, ECLIPSE FOUNDATION, INC. | THIS WORK IS LICENSED UNDER A CREATIVE COMMONS ATTRIBUTION 4.0 INTERNATIONAL LICENSE (CC BY 4.0)
39. Skills COPYRIGHT (C) 2026, ECLIPSE FOUNDATION, INC. | THIS WORK IS LICENSED UNDER A CREATIVE COMMONS ATTRIBUTION 4.0 INTERNATIONAL LICENSE (CC BY 4.0)
40. Skills Where do white peking ducks live? APP LLM White Pekin ducks don't really have a "wild" home anymore because they are a domesticated breed. COPYRIGHT (C) 2026, ECLIPSE FOUNDATION, INC. | THIS WORK IS LICENSED UNDER A CREATIVE COMMONS ATTRIBUTION 4.0 INTERNATIONAL LICENSE (CC BY 4.0)
41. Demo COPYRIGHT (C) 2026, ECLIPSE FOUNDATION, INC. | THIS WORK IS LICENSED UNDER A CREATIVE COMMONS ATTRIBUTION 4.0 INTERNATIONAL LICENSE (CC BY 4.0)
42. Skills Where do white peking ducks live? [skills.md content] APP Duckburg skills.md COPYRIGHT (C) 2026, ECLIPSE FOUNDATION, INC. | THIS WORK IS LICENSED UNDER A CREATIVE COMMONS ATTRIBUTION 4.0 INTERNATIONAL LICENSE (CC BY 4.0) LLM
43. Why Skills? COPYRIGHT (C) 2026, ECLIPSE FOUNDATION, INC. | THIS WORK IS LICENSED UNDER A CREATIVE COMMONS ATTRIBUTION 4.0 INTERNATIONAL LICENSE (CC BY 4.0)
44. AI + Skills Consistency Orchestration and Logic Context Ef ciency fi COPYRIGHT (C) 2026, ECLIPSE FOUNDATION, INC. | THIS WORK IS LICENSED UNDER A CREATIVE COMMONS ATTRIBUTION 4.0 INTERNATIONAL LICENSE (CC BY 4.0)
45. Retrieval-Agumented Generation (RAG) COPYRIGHT (C) 2026, ECLIPSE FOUNDATION, INC. | THIS WORK IS LICENSED UNDER A CREATIVE COMMONS ATTRIBUTION 4.0 INTERNATIONAL LICENSE (CC BY 4.0)
46. RAG “What orders were dispatched today?” APP LLM As an AI, I don't have access to your personal accounts, email, or company internal databases. COPYRIGHT (C) 2026, ECLIPSE FOUNDATION, INC. | THIS WORK IS LICENSED UNDER A CREATIVE COMMONS ATTRIBUTION 4.0 INTERNATIONAL LICENSE (CC BY 4.0)
47. Demo COPYRIGHT (C) 2026, ECLIPSE FOUNDATION, INC. | THIS WORK IS LICENSED UNDER A CREATIVE COMMONS ATTRIBUTION 4.0 INTERNATIONAL LICENSE (CC BY 4.0)
48. RAG orders “What orders were dispatched today?” APP [CONTEXT DATA] “Orders 1, 2, and 3 were dispatched today” COPYRIGHT (C) 2026, ECLIPSE FOUNDATION, INC. | THIS WORK IS LICENSED UNDER A CREATIVE COMMONS ATTRIBUTION 4.0 INTERNATIONAL LICENSE (CC BY 4.0) LLM
49. Why RAG? COPYRIGHT (C) 2026, ECLIPSE FOUNDATION, INC. | THIS WORK IS LICENSED UNDER A CREATIVE COMMONS ATTRIBUTION 4.0 INTERNATIONAL LICENSE (CC BY 4.0)
50. AI + RAG Accuracy Up-to-date Knowledge Transparency & Audibility COPYRIGHT (C) 2026, ECLIPSE FOUNDATION, INC. | THIS WORK IS LICENSED UNDER A CREATIVE COMMONS ATTRIBUTION 4.0 INTERNATIONAL LICENSE (CC BY 4.0)
51. Model Context Protocol (MCP) COPYRIGHT (C) 2026, ECLIPSE FOUNDATION, INC. | THIS WORK IS LICENSED UNDER A CREATIVE COMMONS ATTRIBUTION 4.0 INTERNATIONAL LICENSE (CC BY 4.0)
52. MCP “My name is Donald Duck, please list my bookings” APP Hi Donald! I don’t have access to your booking accounts from here COPYRIGHT (C) 2026, ECLIPSE FOUNDATION, INC. | THIS WORK IS LICENSED UNDER A CREATIVE COMMONS ATTRIBUTION 4.0 INTERNATIONAL LICENSE (CC BY 4.0) LLM
53. Demo COPYRIGHT (C) 2026, ECLIPSE FOUNDATION, INC. | THIS WORK IS LICENSED UNDER A CREATIVE COMMONS ATTRIBUTION 4.0 INTERNATIONAL LICENSE (CC BY 4.0)
54. tools BookingService MCP “My name is Donald Duck, please list my bookings” [MANIFEST] [Call getBookingsForCustomer] APP LLM [Orders for Donald Duck] Booking 123: 1934 Belch re Runabout fi COPYRIGHT (C) 2026, ECLIPSE FOUNDATION, INC. | THIS WORK IS LICENSED UNDER A CREATIVE COMMONS ATTRIBUTION 4.0 INTERNATIONAL LICENSE (CC BY 4.0)
55. Why MCP? COPYRIGHT (C) 2026, ECLIPSE FOUNDATION, INC. | THIS WORK IS LICENSED UNDER A CREATIVE COMMONS ATTRIBUTION 4.0 INTERNATIONAL LICENSE (CC BY 4.0)
56. AI + MCP Interoperability Discoverability Separation of Concerns COPYRIGHT (C) 2026, ECLIPSE FOUNDATION, INC. | THIS WORK IS LICENSED UNDER A CREATIVE COMMONS ATTRIBUTION 4.0 INTERNATIONAL LICENSE (CC BY 4.0)
57. Summary COPYRIGHT (C) 2026, ECLIPSE FOUNDATION, INC. | THIS WORK IS LICENSED UNDER A CREATIVE COMMONS ATTRIBUTION 4.0 INTERNATIONAL LICENSE (CC BY 4.0)
58. Basic LLMs are Stupid COPYRIGHT (C) 2026, ECLIPSE FOUNDATION, INC. | THIS WORK IS LICENSED UNDER A CREATIVE COMMONS ATTRIBUTION 4.0 INTERNATIONAL LICENSE (CC BY 4.0)
59. Augmenting makes it less Stupid COPYRIGHT (C) 2026, ECLIPSE FOUNDATION, INC. | THIS WORK IS LICENSED UNDER A CREATIVE COMMONS ATTRIBUTION 4.0 INTERNATIONAL LICENSE (CC BY 4.0)
60. …and more Predictable COPYRIGHT (C) 2026, ECLIPSE FOUNDATION, INC. | THIS WORK IS LICENSED UNDER A CREATIVE COMMONS ATTRIBUTION 4.0 INTERNATIONAL LICENSE (CC BY 4.0)
61. Summary Memory Personalisation Adaptivity Context Optimisation Tools Action Precision Data Skills Consitency Orchestration Context E ciency RAG Accuracy Up-to-date Auditibility Discoverability Separation of Concerns MCP Interoperability ffi COPYRIGHT (C) 2026, ECLIPSE FOUNDATION, INC. | THIS WORK IS LICENSED UNDER A CREATIVE COMMONS ATTRIBUTION 4.0 INTERNATIONAL LICENSE (CC BY 4.0)
62. + COPYRIGHT (C) 2026, ECLIPSE FOUNDATION, INC. | THIS WORK IS LICENSED UNDER A CREATIVE COMMONS ATTRIBUTION 4.0 INTERNATIONAL LICENSE (CC BY 4.0)
63. JSR 330 1995 1999 2004 2006 2009 2014 2017 2020 2024/5 javax.* -> jakarta.*
64. 2020 javax.* -> jakarta.* 2022 2024/5 2026 Jakarta EE Core Pro le Java 21 Embrace Records Jakarta Data CDI Centric Removals and Deprecations Java 25 Jakarta Query Jakarta NoSQL CDI Centric Deprecations fi COPYRIGHT (C) 2026, ECLIPSE FOUNDATION, INC. | THIS WORK IS LICENSED UNDER A CREATIVE COMMONS ATTRIBUTION 4.0 INTERNATIONAL LICENSE (CC BY 4.0)
65. AI Roadmap for Jakarta EE ? ULTRA Full capable ready 2024 2026 2028 2030 https://omnihai.org 13 COPYRIGHT (C) 2026, ECLIPSE FOUNDATION, INC. | THIS WORK IS LICENSED UNDER A CREATIVE COMMONS ATTRIBUTION 4.0 INTERNATIONAL LICENSE (CC BY 4.0) 14
66. AI Roadmap for Jakarta EE ULTRA Full capable ready 2024 2026 2028 2030 13 COPYRIGHT (C) 2026, ECLIPSE FOUNDATION, INC. | THIS WORK IS LICENSED UNDER A CREATIVE COMMONS ATTRIBUTION 4.0 INTERNATIONAL LICENSE (CC BY 4.0) 14
67. Jakarta EE https://jakarta.ee https://theguywiththeduketattoo.com Get Started https://start.jakarta.ee Ivar’s Hashtag Jakarta EE https://www.agilejava.eu/category/jakarta-ee/ Demo Code https://github.com/ivargrimstad/augmented-duke COPYRIGHT (C) 2026, ECLIPSE FOUNDATION, INC. | THIS WORK IS LICENSED UNDER A CREATIVE COMMONS ATTRIBUTION 4.0 INTERNATIONAL LICENSE (CC BY 4.0)
68. Open Liberty https://openliberty.io Liberty https://www.ibm.com/products/liberty Quarkus https://quarkus.io/ IBM Bob https://bob.ibm.com/ COPYRIGHT (C) 2026, ECLIPSE FOUNDATION, INC. | THIS WORK IS LICENSED UNDER A CREATIVE COMMONS ATTRIBUTION 4.0 INTERNATIONAL LICENSE (CC BY 4.0)
69. Thank You! COPYRIGHT (C) 2026, ECLIPSE FOUNDATION, INC. | THIS WORK IS LICENSED UNDER A CREATIVE COMMONS ATTRIBUTION 4.0 INTERNATIONAL LICENSE (CC BY 4.0)