Spring AI The documentation and comments for the MCP Client section contain errors.

In the documentation for the MCP Client (https://docs.spring.io/spring-ai/reference/1.1-SNAPSHOT/api/mcp/mcp-client-boot-starter-docs.html#_configuration_properties), the description for the name configuration property states:

Name of the MCP client instance (used for compatibility checks).

However, the client name is not actually used as part of any compatibility check.

Similarly, the comments in the configuration classes for both the MCP Client and MCP Server regarding the name and version properties also appear to be incorrect:

https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-ai/blob/59f2b3bfc7c482eb7ab74a825e571286f38c5d3e/auto-configurations/mcp/spring-ai-autoconfigure-mcp-client-common/src/main/java/org/springframework/ai/mcp/client/common/autoconfigure/properties/McpClientCommonProperties.java#L43-L55

https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-ai/blob/59f2b3bfc7c482eb7ab74a825e571286f38c5d3e/auto-configurations/mcp/spring-ai-autoconfigure-mcp-server/src/main/java/org/springframework/ai/mcp/server/autoconfigure/McpServerProperties.java#L69-L74

In reality, neither the name nor the version attributes on either the client or server side are used for compatibility validation. The only property related to compatibility checking is io.modelcontextprotocol.spec.McpTransport#protocolVersion, which can be confirmed by examining the io.modelcontextprotocol.client.LifecycleInitializer#doInitialize method in the MCP Java SDK:

https://github.com/modelcontextprotocol/java-sdk/blob/3a95f757f32c758f84332d9684dd7a81b7d630b4/mcp/src/main/java/io/modelcontextprotocol/client/LifecycleInitializer.java#L300-L329