Announcing ADK for Java 1.0.0: Building the Future of AI Agents in Java- Google Developers Blog

This post announces the release of ADK for Java 1.0.0, detailing new features for building AI agents. Key contributions include the introduction of GoogleMapsTool and UrlContextTool for grounding agent responses with external data, ContainerCodeExecutor and VertexAiCodeExecutor for code execution, a centralized App container and Plugin system for global execution control (e.g., LoggingPlugin, GlobalInstructionPlugin), event compaction for managing context window sizes, Human-in-the-Loop (HITL) workflows via ToolConfirmation, and session/memory service contracts. It also highlights Agent2Agent (A2A) support for inter-agent communication.