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Spring 5.0 Microservices - Second Edition

By : Rajesh R V
Book Image

Spring 5.0 Microservices - Second Edition

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 that focuses on Reactive Programming, you’ll be able to build modern, internet-scale Java applications in no time. The book starts off with guidelines to implement responsive microservices at scale. Next, you will understand how Spring Boot is used to deploy serverless autonomous services by removing the need to have a heavyweight application server. Later, you’ll learn how to go further by deploying your microservices to Docker and managing them with Mesos. By the end of the book, you will have gained more clarity on the implementation of microservices using Spring Framework and will be able to use them in internet-scale deployments through real-world examples.
Table of Contents (11 chapters)

Documenting microservices


The traditional approach of API documentation is either to write service specification documents or to use 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. In the following examples, we will use Springfox libraries for generating REST API documentation. Springfox is a set of Java Spring-friendly library.

Create a new Spring Starter project, and choose Web in the library selection window. Name the project as chapter3.swagger.

Note

The full source code of this example is available as the chapter3.swagger project in the code files of this book under the following Git repository:https://github.com/rajeshrv/Spring5Microservice

Since Springfox libraries are not part of the Spring suite, edit the pom.xml file, and add the springfox-swagger library dependencies...