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Part 2 3 chapters

The AI Development Lifecycle (ADLC)

What replaces the SDLC: phases, agent roles, MCP tools, human gates, the safety net, and a full worked loop on a trivial change.

Chapter 5

From SDLC to ADLC

Why the traditional lifecycle breaks under agent-assisted work; the ADLC phases; which SDLC steps agents replace or augment; the human gates.

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Chapter 6

Agents, Skills & MCP Tools in the Loop

The agent-tier relay (plan, execute, validate); the MCP surface (Quarkus Agent, Camel MCP); the reusable skill map; when the human must decide.

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Chapter 7

The ADLC Safety Net

Tests, contracts, and reconciliation as the guardrails that make agentic generation trustworthy, with a full loop run end-to-end on a trivial change.

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Modernizing Enterprise Applications

A Spring Boot monolith strangled to Quarkus + Camel microservices, one seam at a time, driven by an AI Development Lifecycle (ADLC) and tested throughout.

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  • Introduction
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