cURL is a command line tool for getting or sending files using the URL syntax. cURL supports a range of common Internet protocols like HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, FTPS, SCP, SFTP, TFTP, and LDAP, out of which HTTP is of interest for our discussions in this book.
Postman is a UI-based app that can be used to carry out all HTTP actions in an easier manner. I will introduce this app, too.
The “Performing Data Operations Using Spring Boot and MongoDB” section in Chapter 7 introduced a sample Spring Boot application. You used Spring Data REST there to create implementations ...