Pro RESTful APIs with Micronaut: Build Java-Based Microservices with REST, JSON, and XML

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S. PatniPro RESTful APIs with Micronauthttps://doi.org/10.1007/979-8-8688-1243-9_2

2. Micronaut

Sanjay Patni¹  

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Milpitas, CA, USA

 

Micronaut is a JVM-based modern full-stack microservice framework. This new framework has been developed by the Grails team with an intention to solve problems which have been identified over the years while building the real-world microservices applications.

One of the most exciting features of Micronaut is its compile-time dependency injection mechanism. Most frameworks use reflection and proxies to perform dependency injection at runtime. Micronaut, however, builds its dependency injection data at compile time. The result is ...