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+---
+title: Java API
+description: Java API reference for ONNX Runtime generate() API
+has_children: false
+parent: API docs
+grand_parent: Generate API (Preview)
+nav_order: 1
+---
+
+# ONNX Runtime generate() Java API
+
+_Note: this API is in preview and is subject to change._
+
+{: .no_toc }
+
+* TOC placeholder
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+
+## Install and import
+The Java API is delivered by the ai.onnxruntime.genai Java package. Package publication is pending. To build the package from source, see the [installation guide](../howto/build-from-source.md).
+
+```java
+import ai.onnxruntime.genai.*;
+```
+
+## SimpleGenAI Class
+
+The `SimpleGenAI` class provides a simple usage example of the GenAI API. It works with a model that generates text based on a prompt, processing a single prompt at a time.
+Usage:
+
+Create an instance of the class with the path to the model. The path should also contain the GenAI configuration files.
+
+```java
+SimpleGenAI genAI = new SimpleGenAI(folderPath);
+```
+
+Call createGeneratorParams with the prompt text.
+Set any other search options via the GeneratorParams object as needed using `setSearchOption`.
+
+```java
+GeneratorParams generatorParams = genAI.createGeneratorParams(promptText);
+// .. set additional generator params before calling generate()
+```
+
+Call generate with the GeneratorParams object and an optional listener.
+
+```java
+String fullResponse = genAI.generate(generatorParams, listener);
+```
+
+The listener is used as a callback mechanism so that tokens can be used as they are generated. Create a class that implements the `Consumer<String>` interface and provide an instance of that class as the `listener` argument.
+
+### Constructor
+
+```java
+public SimpleGenAI(String modelPath) throws GenAIException
+```
+
+#### Throws
+
+`GenAIException`- on failure.
+
+### Generate Method
+
+Generate text based on the prompt and settings in GeneratorParams. 
+
+NOTE: This only handles a single sequence of input (i.e. a single prompt which equates to batch size of 1).
+
+```java
+public String generate(GeneratorParams generatorParams, Consumer<String> listener) throws GenAIException
+```
+
+#### Parameters
+
+- `generatorParams`: the prompt and settings to run the model with.
+- `listener`: optional callback for tokens to be provided as they are generated. 
+
+NOTE: Token generation will be blocked until the listener's `accept` method returns.
+
+#### Throws
+
+`GenAIException`- on failure.
+
+#### Returns
+
+The generated text.
+
+#### Example
+
+```java
+SimpleGenAI generator = new SimpleGenAI(modelPath);
+GeneratorParams params = generator.createGeneratorParams("What's 6 times 7?");
+Consumer<String> listener = token -> logger.info("onTokenGenerate: " + token);
+String result = generator.generate(params, listener);
+
+logger.info("Result: " + result);
+```
+
+### createGenerateParams Method
+
+Create the generator parameters and add the prompt text. The user can set other search options via the GeneratorParams object prior to running `generate`.
+
+```java
+public GeneratorParams createGeneratorParams(String prompt) throws GenAIException
+```
+
+#### Parameters
+
+- `prompt`: the prompt text to encode.
+
+#### Throws
+
+`GenAIException`- on failure.
+
+#### Returns
+
+The generator parameters.
+
+## Exception Class
+
+An exception which contains the error message and code produced by the native layer.
+
+### Constructor
+
+```java
+public GenAIException(String message)
+```
+
+#### Example
+
+```java
+catch (GenAIException e) {
+  throw new GenAIException("Token generation loop failed.", e);
+}
+```
+
+## Model class
+
+### Constructor
+
+```java
+Model(String modelPath)
+```
+
+### Create Tokenizer Method
+
+Creates a Tokenizer instance for this model. The model contains the configuration information that determines the tokenizer to use.
+
+```java
+public Tokenizer createTokenizer() throws GenAIException
+```
+
+#### Throws
+
+`GenAIException`- if the call to the GenAI native API fails
+
+#### Returns
+
+The tokenizer instance.
+
+### Generate Method
+
+```java
+public Sequences generate(GeneratorParams generatorParams) throws GenAIException
+```
+
+#### Parameters
+
+- `generatorParams`: the generator parameters.
+
+#### Throws
+
+`GenAIException`- if the call to the GenAI native API fails.
+
+#### Returns
+
+The generated sequences.
+
+#### Example
+
+```java
+Sequences output = model.generate(generatorParams);
+```
+
+### createGeneratorParams Method
+
+Creates a GeneratorParams instance for executing the model. 
+
+NOTE: GeneratorParams internally uses the Model, so the Model instance must remain valid.
+
+```java
+public GeneratorParams createGeneratorParams() throws GenAIException
+```
+
+#### Throws
+
+`GenAIException`- if the call to the GenAI native API fails.
+
+#### Returns
+
+The GeneratorParams instance.
+
+#### Example
+
+```java
+GeneratorParams params = generator.createGeneratorParams("What's 6 times 7?");
+```
+
+## Tokenizer class
+
+### Encode Method
+
+Encodes a string into a sequence of token ids.
+
+```java
+public Sequences encode(String string) throws GenAIException
+```
+
+#### Parameters
+
+- `string`: text to encode as token ids.
+
+#### Throws
+
+`GenAIException`- if the call to the GenAI native API fails.
+
+#### Returns
+
+A Sequences object with a single sequence in it.
+
+#### Example
+
+```java
+Sequences encodedPrompt = tokenizer.encode(prompt);
+```
+
+### Decode Method
+
+Decodes a sequence of token ids into text.
+
+```java
+public String decode(int[] sequence) throws GenAIException
+```
+
+#### Parameters
+
+- `sequence`: collection of token ids to decode to text
+
+#### Throws
+
+`GenAIException`- if the call to the GenAI native API fails.
+
+#### Returns
+
+The text representation of the sequence.
+
+#### Example
+
+```java
+String result = tokenizer.decode(output_ids);
+```
+
+### encodeBatch Method
+
+Encodes an array of strings into a sequence of token ids for each input.
+
+```java
+public Sequences encodeBatch(String[] strings) throws GenAIException
+```
+
+#### Parameters
+
+- `strings`: collection of strings to encode as token ids.
+
+#### Throws
+
+`GenAIException`- if the call to the GenAI native API fails.
+
+#### Returns
+
+A Sequences object with one sequence per input string.
+
+#### Example
+
+```java
+Sequences encoded = tokenizer.encodeBatch(inputs);
+```
+
+### decodeBatch Method
+
+Decodes a batch of sequences of token ids into text.
+
+```java
+public String[] decodeBatch(Sequences sequences) throws GenAIException
+```
+
+#### Parameters
+
+- `sequences`: a Sequences object with one or more sequences of token ids.
+
+#### Throws
+
+`GenAIException`- if the call to the GenAI native API fails.
+
+#### Returns
+
+An array of strings with the text representation of each sequence.
+
+#### Example
+
+```java
+String[] decoded = tokenizer.decodeBatch(encoded);
+```
+
+### createStream Method
+
+Creates a TokenizerStream object for streaming tokenization. This is used with Generator class to provide each token as it is generated.
+
+```java
+public TokenizerStream createStream() throws GenAIException
+```
+
+#### Throws
+
+`GenAIException`- if the call to the GenAI native API fails.
+
+#### Returns
+
+The new TokenizerStream instance.
+
+## TokenizerStream class
+
+This class is used to convert individual tokens when using Generator.generateNextToken.
+
+### Decode method
+
+```java
+public String decode(int token) throws GenAIException
+```
+
+#### Parameters
+
+- `token`: int value for token
+
+#### Throws
+
+`GenAIException`
+
+## Tensor Class
+
+Constructs a Tensor with the given data, shape, and element type.
+
+```java
+public Tensor(ByteBuffer data, long[] shape, ElementType elementType) throws GenAIException
+```
+
+#### Parameters
+
+- `data`: the data for the Tensor. Must be a direct ByteBuffer.
+- `shape`: the shape of the Tensor.
+- `elementType`: the Type of elements in the Tensor.
+
+#### Throws
+
+`GenAIException`
+
+#### Example
+
+Create a 2x2 Tensor with 32-bit float data.
+
+```java
+long[] shape = {2, 2};
+ByteBuffer data = ByteBuffer.allocateDirect(4 * Float.BYTES);
+FloatBuffer floatBuffer = data.asFloatBuffer();
+floatBuffer.put(new float[] {1.0f, 2.0f, 3.0f, 4.0f});
+
+Tensor tensor = new Tensor(data, shape, Tensor.ElementType.float32);
+```
+
+## GeneratorParams class
+
+The `GeneratorParams` class represents the parameters used for generating sequences with a model. Set the prompt using setInput, and any other search options using setSearchOption.
+
+### Create a Generator Params object
+
+```java
+GeneratorParams params = new GeneratorParams(model);
+```
+
+### setSearchOption Method
+
+```java
+public void setSearchOption(String optionName, double value) throws GenAIException
+```
+
+#### Throws
+
+`GenAIException`
+
+#### Example
+
+Set search option to limit the model generation length.
+
+```java
+generatorParams.setSearchOption("max_length", 10);
+```
+
+### setSearchOption Method
+
+```java
+public void setSearchOption(String optionName, boolean value) throws GenAIException
+```
+
+#### Throws
+
+`GenAIException`
+
+#### Example
+
+```java
+generatorParams.setSearchOption("early_stopping", true);
+```
+
+### setInput Method
+
+Sets the prompt/s for model execution. The `sequences` are created by using Tokenizer.Encode or EncodeBatch.
+
+```java
+public void setInput(Sequences sequences) throws GenAIException
+```
+
+#### Parameters
+- `sequences`: sequences containing the encoded prompt.
+
+#### Throws
+`GenAIException`- if the call to the GenAI native API fails.
+
+#### Example
+```java
+generatorParams.setInput(encodedPrompt);
+```
+
+### setInput Method
+
+Sets the prompt/s token ids for model execution. The `tokenIds` are the encoded parameters.
+
+```java
+public void setInput(int[] tokenIds, int sequenceLength, int batchSize)
+ throws GenAIException
+```
+
+#### Parameters
+
+- `tokenIds`: the token ids of the encoded prompt/s
+- `sequenceLength`: the length of each sequence.
+- `batchSize`: size of the batch. 
+
+#### Throws
+
+`GenAIException`- if the call to the GenAI native API fails. 
+
+NOTE: all sequences in the batch must be the same length.
+
+#### Example
+
+```java
+generatorParams.setInput(tokenIds, sequenceLength, batchSize);
+```
+
+## Generator class
+
+The Generator class generates output using a model and generator parameters.
+The expected usage is to loop until isDone returns false. Within the loop, call computeLogits followed by generateNextToken.
+
+The newly generated token can be retrieved with getLastTokenInSequence and decoded with TokenizerStream.Decode.
+
+After the generation process is done, GetSequence can be used to retrieve the complete generated sequence if needed.
+
+### Create a Generator
+
+Constructs a Generator object with the given model and generator parameters.
+
+```java
+Generator(Model model, GeneratorParams generatorParams)
+```
+
+#### Parameters
+
+- `model`: the model.
+- `params`: the generator parameters.
+
+#### Throws
+
+`GenAIException`- if the call to the GenAI native API fails.
+
+### isDone Method
+
+Checks if the generation process is done.
+
+```java
+public boolean isDone()
+```
+
+#### Returns
+
+Returns true if the generation process is done, false otherwise.
+
+### computeLogits Method
+
+Computes the logits for the next token in the sequence.
+
+```java
+public void computeLogits() throws GenAIException
+```
+
+#### Throws
+
+`GenAIException`- if the call to the GenAI native API fails.
+
+### getSequence Method
+
+Retrieves a sequence of token ids for the specified sequence index.
+
+```java
+public int[] getSequence(long sequenceIndex) throws GenAIException
+```
+
+#### Parameters
+- `sequenceIndex`: the index of the sequence.
+
+#### Throws
+
+`GenAIException`- if the call to the GenAI native API fails.
+
+#### Returns
+
+An array of integers with the sequence of token ids.
+
+#### Exmaple
+```java
+int[] outputIds = output.getSequence(i);
+```
+
+### generateNextToken Method
+
+Generates the next token in the sequence.
+
+```java
+public void generateNextToken() throws GenAIException
+```
+
+#### Throws
+
+`GenAIException`- if the call to the GenAI native API fails.
+
+### getLastTokenInSequence Method
+
+Retrieves the last token in the sequence for the specified sequence index.
+
+```java
+public int getLastTokenInSequence(long sequenceIndex) throws GenAIException
+```
+
+#### Parameters
+
+- `sequenceIndex`: the index of the sequence.
+
+#### Throws
+
+`GenAIException`- if the call to the GenAI native API fails.
+
+#### Returns
+
+The last token in the sequence.
+
+## Sequences Class
+
+Represents a collection of encoded prompts/responses.
+
+### numSequences Method
+
+Gets the number of sequences in the collection. This is equivalent to the batch size.
+
+```java
+public long numSequences()
+```
+
+### Returns
+
+The number of sequences.
+
+#### Example
+```java
+int numSequences = (int) sequences.numSequences();
+```
+
+### getSequence Method
+
+Gets the sequence at the specified index.
+
+```java
+public int[] getSequence(long sequenceIndex)
+```
+
+#### Parameters
+
+- `sequenceIndex`: The index of the sequence.
+
+#### Returns
+
+The sequence as an array of integers.
+
diff --git a/docs/genai/howto/build-from-source.md b/docs/genai/howto/build-from-source.md
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 ## Pre-requisites
 
-`cmake`
+- `cmake`
+- `.Net v6` (if building C# library or API)
 
 ## Clone the onnxruntime-genai repo
 
@@ -154,36 +155,45 @@ This step assumes that you are in the root of the onnxruntime-genai repo, and yo
 cd ../onnxruntime-genai
 ```
 
-### Build for Windows CPU
+### Build Python API
+
+#### Build for Windows CPU
 
 ```bash
 python build.py
 ```
 
-### Build for Windows DirectML
+#### Build for Windows DirectML
 
 ```bash
 python build.py --use_dml
 ```
 
-### Build on Linux
+#### Build on Linux
 
 ```bash
 python build.py
 ```
 
-### Build on Linux with CUDA
+#### Build on Linux with CUDA
 
 ```bash
 python build.py --use_cuda
 ```
 
-### Build on Mac
+#### Build on Mac
 
 ```bash
 python build.py
 ```
-  
+
+### Build Java API
+
+```bash
+python build.py --build_java --config Release
+```
+Change config to Debug for debug builds.
+
 ## Install the library into your application
 
 ### Install Python wheel
@@ -193,10 +203,12 @@ cd build/wheel
 pip install *.whl
 ```
 
+### Install .jar
+
+Copy `build/Windows/Release/src/java/build/libs/*.jar` into your application.
+
 ### Install Nuget package
 
-
-
 ### Install C/C++ header file and library
 
 _Coming soon_