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Mastering Spring Cloud

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Product type Book
Published in Apr 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788475433
Pages 432 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages
Author (1):
Piotr Mińkowski Piotr Mińkowski
Profile icon Piotr Mińkowski

Table of Contents (22) Chapters

Title Page
Copyright and Credits
Packt Upsell
Contributors
Preface
1. Introduction to Microservices 2. Spring for Microservices 3. Spring Cloud Overview 4. Service Discovery 5. Distributed Configuration with Spring Cloud Config 6. Communication Between Microservices 7. Advanced Load Balancing and Circuit Breakers 8. Routing and Filtering with API Gateway 9. Distributed Logging and Tracing 10. Additional Configuration and Discovery Features 11. Message-Driven Microservices 12. Securing an API 13. Testing Java Microservices 14. Docker Support 15. Spring Microservices on Cloud Platforms 1. Other Books You May Enjoy Index

API Documentation


Swagger is the most popular tool for designing, building, and documenting RESTful APIs. It has been created by SmartBear, the designers of a very popular tool for SOAP Web Services, SoapUI. I think that might be sufficient recommendation for those who have long experience with SOAP. Anyway, with Swagger, we can design APIs using notation and then generate source code from it, or the other way around, where we start with the source code and then generate a Swagger file. With Spring Boot, we use the second option. 

Using Swagger 2 together with Spring Boot

The integration between Spring Boot and Swagger 2 is realized by the Springfox project. It examines application at runtime to infer API semantics based on Spring configurations, class structure, and Java annotations. To use Swagger in conjunction with Spring, we need to add the following two dependencies to the Maven pom.xml and annotate the main application class with @EnableSwagger2:

<dependency>
    <groupId>...
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