Differences Between OpenInference SDK and OpenTelemetry plus Java Integration with Arize Phoenix Discussion

·Sep 29, 2026 12:27 PM(edited)·

Hey folks - I'm a Java Champion and a maintainer on LangChain4j. I have been working in the eval space for close to 2 years now. I came across arize.com/docs/…/openinference-java and wanted to chat with someone about how the openinference sdk differs from opentelemetry and the OpenTelemetry semantic conventions. I was also wondering about direct integration with Arize Phoenix via java. I contributed a java API for langfuse (github.com/langfuse/langfuse-java/pull/36) as well as I own a quarkus extension for langfuse (docs.quarkiverse.io/quarkus-langfuse/dev) and was wondering if anyone from Arize Phoenix would be interested in something similar for Arize? I've made this proposal: github.com/Arize-ai/client_java/issues/16

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