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Spring Microservices
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Spring Microservices

by Rajesh R V
June 2016
Intermediate to advanced
436 pages
10h 37m
English
Packt Publishing
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Documenting microservices

The traditional approach of API documentation is either by writing service specification documents or using static service registries. With a large number of microservices, it would be hard to keep the documentation of APIs in sync.

Microservices can be documented in many ways. This section will explore how microservices can be documented using the popular Swagger framework. The following example will use Springfox libraries to generate REST API documentation. Springfox is a set of Java- and Spring-friendly libraries.

Create a new Spring Starter Project and select Web in the library selection window. Name the project chapter2.swagger.

Note

The full source code of this example is available as the chapter2.swagger project in ...

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