MicroProfile OpenAPI and Type-Safe REST Client

Eclipse MicroProfile has a rich set of specifications for Java microservices. Two of these, Eclipse MicroProfile OpenAPI and Eclipse MicroProfile REST Client, help with the API documentation for your microservices and provide an API for type-safe invocation on REST endpoints, respectively. OpenAPI simplifies the documentation for microservice endpoints and makes this metadata available for perusal by third-party developers. A type-safe REST client simplifies the marshalling and unmarshalling of objects to HTTP or JSON.

The following topics will be covered in this chapter:

  • The capabilities offered by each of these specifications
  • Simple code examples of some of these capabilities
  • How to obtain ...

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