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

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This post announces the release of version 1.0.0 of ADK for Java, introducing significant enhancements to the Agent Development Kit framework. Key features include new grounding tools like GoogleMapsTool and UrlContextTool for interacting with external data, a centralized plugin architecture managed by the App class for global execution control (logging, guardrails), enhanced context engineering with event compaction to manage context window sizes, Human-in-the-Loop (HITL) support through ToolConfirmation workflows for agent pausing and human approval, and defined contracts for session and memory services with persistence options. It also introduces Agent2Agent (A2A) support for seamless collaboration between remote agents.