Developing Java Applications with Spring and Spring Boot

How it works...

Similar to what we saw in the previous recipe, the use of the @EnableFeignClients annotation on the main application class, BookPubApplication, explicitly tells Spring Cloud that it should scan for all the interfaces annotated with @FeignClient and create service client implementations based on their definitions. The @EnableFeignClients annotation is similar in nature to the @ComponentScan one, providing attributes to control which packages to scan for the @FeignClient annotated classes or explicitly list the API classes that should be used.

Out of the box, all Feign client implementations are configured using components defined in the FeignClientsConfiguration class, but one can provide alternative configuration classes using ...