Spring Boot | Sample REST Application
In this post we are going to write a Simple REST Application in Spring Boot. Spring Boot has inbuilt tomcat which makes an application start without the need to have any application/web server. Though we can always deploy applications in web servers too. For this tutorial we will be using Maven for dependency management. Step 1. Add all required Spring dependencies in your pom file We can use below sample pom file to start with or go to https://start.spring.io/ to kick start your spring boot application. Step 2. Spring starter class Spring Boot uses @SpringBootApplication to auto configure some of spring configuration. You can find more info on SpringBoot details Step 3. Application Controller We will be using MVC pattern to separate our restful layer from the service layer. In our REST service we use @RestController annotation. It is combination of @Controller and @ResponseBody annotations. We created CustomerController to return customer d...
