Developing the Spring Boot microservice using Spring Initializr – the HATEOAS example
In the next example, Spring Initializr will be used to create a Spring Boot project. Spring Initializr is a drop-in replacement for the STS project wizard and provides a web UI to configure and generate a Spring Boot project. One of the advantages of Spring Initializr is that it can generate a project through the website that then can be imported into any IDE.
In this example, the concept of HATEOAS (short for Hypertext As The Engine Of Application State) for REST-based services and the HAL (Hypertext Application Language) browser will be examined.
HATEOAS is a REST service pattern in which navigation links are provided as part of the payload metadata. The client ...
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