MCP for Everyone! ( Yes that includes you :P and our JHBMSDUG) Aug 2025

Getting Started with the Model Context Protocol (MCP)

Join us for our Dual UG for August, where we go all in with Azure and Dev. It is important in the age of AI to know what MCP is and does.

Join us for a practical introduction to the Model Context Protocol (MCP), the open standard that lets generative‑AI apps pass context and invoke tools in a consistent, secure way. Rory Preddy—co‑author of the “MCP for Beginners” tutorial and writer of the Java examples—will walk through:

1. What MCP Is (and Isn’t)

• A quick look at the JSON‑RPC 2.0 contract that underpins MCP.
• Why it’s a protocol, not another vendor‑specific SDK.

2. Tour of the Tutorial Repo

• Key files that show context passing, tool calls, and server setup.

3. Live Demo

• Building a minimal MCP client and server and connecting them to a cloud LLM.

4. Next Steps

• How to adopt MCP in your own projects and where to find more resources.