Codex, MCP, and Spring AI: Building Tool-Enabled Java Applications with the Latest OpenAI Models
Codex becomes far more useful when it can move beyond code completion and safely work with the systems that already run a business. The practical pattern is simple: expose a narrow set of domain operations through the Model Context Protocol (MCP), connect a capable model to those tools, and keep Spring Boot responsible for authentication, authorization, validation, and audit trails.…