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Spring Microservices

By : Rajesh R V
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Spring Microservices

By: Rajesh R V

Overview of this book

The Spring Framework is an application framework and inversion of the control container for the Java platform. The framework's core features can be used by any Java application, but there are extensions to build web applications on top of the Java EE platform. This book will help you implement the microservice architecture in Spring Framework, Spring Boot, and Spring Cloud. Written to the latest specifications of Spring, you'll be able to build modern, Internet-scale Java applications in no time. We would start off with the guidelines to implement responsive microservices at scale. We will then deep dive into Spring Boot, Spring Cloud, Docker, Mesos, and Marathon. Next you will understand how Spring Boot is used to deploy autonomous services, server-less by removing the need to have a heavy-weight application server. Later you will learn how to go further by deploying your microservices to Docker and manage it with Mesos. By the end of the book, you'll will gain more clarity on how to implement microservices using Spring Framework and use them in Internet-scale deployments through real-world examples.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Spring Microservices
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgments
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

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 the code files of this book.

As Springfox libraries are not part of the Spring suite, edit pom.xml and add Springfox Swagger library dependencies. Add the following dependencies to the project:

<dependency>
    <groupId>io.springfox<...