Spring 5.0 Cookbook

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Apply the Feign client solution to Spring Boot application by the following steps:

1. Create a Maven project ch10-feign that contains core starter POM such as webflux, actuator, and Tomcat server for Spring Boot 2.0 with the addition of the needed Spring Cloud dependent management configuration which is Spring Cloud Finchley.
2. Add the following Spring Cloud Netflix Feign dependency in the pom.xml.

<dependency> 
    <groupId>org.springframework.cloud</groupId> 
    <artifactId>spring-cloud-starter-feign</artifactId> 
</dependency> 

3. Create a core package, org.packt.microservice.feign, and add to it this bootstrap class that enables default Feign configurations:

@SpringBootApplication @EnableFeignClients public class ConsumeFeignBootApplication ...