[Question] Seeking Spring Boot Starter or Best Practice for BGE Models in a RAG Project

[wangyz351]

Hello,

I'm building a RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) project and have been impressed with the BGE series models. I'm planning to use Spring AI / Spring AI Alibaba as my Java application framework.

To make the integration smoother, I'd like to ask if:

Official Starter: Is there any plan from the BGE team to provide an official Spring Boot Starter (e.g., spring-boot-starter-bge-embedding)? This would greatly simplify configuration and autowiring for both local deployments and API calls.

Community Solution: If not, are there any community-maintained starters, client libraries, or recommended best practices for integrating BGE models with Spring AI that you could point me to?

The ideal integration for my setup would support:

Local Model: Configuring a bean by specifying a local model path.

Self-hosted API: Configuring a bean by simply providing the URL of my own BGE model API endpoint.

Any guidance or references would be very helpful. Thanks in advance!