Understand SSE MCP SERVER with Spring Boot and Spring AI | Beginner Tutorial

In today’s video, we’re going to implement an MCP Server with SSE (Server-Sent Events) Server Transport, and deep dive into the protocol lifecycle of MCP.

Github: https://github.com/nlinhvu/llm-sse-mcp-demo-2025/tree/plain-mcp

MCP Experiments: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLLMxXO6kMiNj3rAu72ygiMjqEdKwE94jZ

References:

MCP Server Boot Starter: https://docs.spring.io/spring-ai/reference/api/mcp/mcp-server-boot-starter-docs.html

MCP Protocol Lifecycle: https://modelcontextprotocol.io/specification/2025-03-26/basic/lifecycle

(00:00): Initialize Project

(01:36): Setup an empty SSE MCP Server

(05:24): Postman MCP Request

(07:24): Add MCP Tools

(13:24): Explain the Protocol Lifecycle

(20:56): Thank you!

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