diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 8d2fb345c84..b80d704b164 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -65,6 +65,8 @@ To clone it you have to either:
 
 ## Building
 
+You'll have the best luck compiling against Java 17.
+
 To build with running unit tests
 
 ```shell
@@ -101,9 +103,10 @@ A full integration test is done twice a day in the [Spring AI Integration Test R
 One way to run integration tests on part of the code is to first do a quick compile and install of the project
 
 ```shell
-./mvnw clean install -DskipTests -Dmaven.javadoc.skip=true
+./mvnw -DskipTests  -Dmaven.javadoc.skip=true  -Ddisable.checks=true spring-javaformat:apply clean  install
 ```
 Then run the integration test for a specific module using the `-pl` option
+
 ```shell
 ./mvnw verify -Pintegration-tests -pl spring-ai-spring-boot-testcontainers
 ```
diff --git a/auto-configurations/models/spring-ai-autoconfigure-model-bedrock-ai/src/main/java/org/springframework/ai/model/bedrock/cohere/autoconfigure/BedrockCohereEmbeddingProperties.java b/auto-configurations/models/spring-ai-autoconfigure-model-bedrock-ai/src/main/java/org/springframework/ai/model/bedrock/cohere/autoconfigure/BedrockCohereEmbeddingProperties.java
index 38e1637c5b1..0b79f6a80a1 100644
--- a/auto-configurations/models/spring-ai-autoconfigure-model-bedrock-ai/src/main/java/org/springframework/ai/model/bedrock/cohere/autoconfigure/BedrockCohereEmbeddingProperties.java
+++ b/auto-configurations/models/spring-ai-autoconfigure-model-bedrock-ai/src/main/java/org/springframework/ai/model/bedrock/cohere/autoconfigure/BedrockCohereEmbeddingProperties.java
@@ -34,6 +34,11 @@ public class BedrockCohereEmbeddingProperties {
 
 	public static final String CONFIG_PREFIX = "spring.ai.bedrock.cohere.embedding";
 
+	/**
+	 * whether Cohere functionality should be enabled.
+	 */
+	private boolean enabled;
+
 	/**
 	 * Bedrock Cohere Embedding generative name. Defaults to
 	 * 'cohere.embed-multilingual-v3'.
@@ -62,4 +67,12 @@ public void setOptions(BedrockCohereEmbeddingOptions options) {
 		this.options = options;
 	}
 
+	public boolean isEnabled() {
+		return enabled;
+	}
+
+	public void setEnabled(boolean enabled) {
+		this.enabled = enabled;
+	}
+
 }
diff --git a/auto-configurations/models/spring-ai-autoconfigure-model-bedrock-ai/src/main/java/org/springframework/ai/model/bedrock/converse/autoconfigure/BedrockConverseProxyChatProperties.java b/auto-configurations/models/spring-ai-autoconfigure-model-bedrock-ai/src/main/java/org/springframework/ai/model/bedrock/converse/autoconfigure/BedrockConverseProxyChatProperties.java
index a7e430a1588..815975d65a8 100644
--- a/auto-configurations/models/spring-ai-autoconfigure-model-bedrock-ai/src/main/java/org/springframework/ai/model/bedrock/converse/autoconfigure/BedrockConverseProxyChatProperties.java
+++ b/auto-configurations/models/spring-ai-autoconfigure-model-bedrock-ai/src/main/java/org/springframework/ai/model/bedrock/converse/autoconfigure/BedrockConverseProxyChatProperties.java
@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@
  * Configuration properties for Bedrock Converse.
  *
  * @author Christian Tzolov
+ * @author Josh Long
  * @since 1.0.0
  */
 @ConfigurationProperties(BedrockConverseProxyChatProperties.CONFIG_PREFIX)
@@ -32,6 +33,11 @@ public class BedrockConverseProxyChatProperties {
 
 	public static final String CONFIG_PREFIX = "spring.ai.bedrock.converse.chat";
 
+	/**
+	 * whether Bedrock functionality should be enabled.
+	 */
+	private boolean enabled;
+
 	@NestedConfigurationProperty
 	private BedrockChatOptions options = BedrockChatOptions.builder().temperature(0.7).maxTokens(300).build();
 
@@ -44,4 +50,12 @@ public void setOptions(BedrockChatOptions options) {
 		this.options = options;
 	}
 
+	public boolean isEnabled() {
+		return enabled;
+	}
+
+	public void setEnabled(boolean enabled) {
+		this.enabled = enabled;
+	}
+
 }