WebserviceExample

An example to show a Spring MVC implementation of a couple of REST services with Swagger documentation and Swagger UI.

Technologies Utilized

• Spring
• Spring Boot
• Spring Boot Devtools (hot reloading)
• JPA
• Spring Data JPA
• H2
• Swagger
• Springfox Swagger UI (http://localhost:8080/swagger-ui.html)
• Apache Utilities
• Jackson JAXB JSON Object Mapper
• Cucumber (Behavior Driven Development)
• Unitils (Reflection Assert)

Project Setup

Prerequisites: The project should not be in a zip file.

1. Download and start Spring Tool Suite from https://spring.io/tools/sts/all
2. Click File -> Import... -> Existing Maven Projects
3. Run the class sf.example.Boot

To test out the service, visit the Swagger UI at: http://localhost:8080/swagger-ui.html

Note

In the real world, there would be a lot of duplicate code to remove, but I have left the duplication for demonstration purposes.