When you talk about Java and microservices, chances are that you'll stumble upon the Netflix stack. In this example I'll use Spring boot with Eureka.
In the great world of SOA we know something like "contract first development", in which we initially describe the web service (using WSDL) and later on implement the service based on that definition. In this article I will explore the options we have with Swagger and Springfox.
REST services are pretty great to allow reuse of your operations, however, to become reusable, you'll have to properly document the available endpoints in your REST API. A popular standard, that is used for this, is Swagger.
Spring boot became quite popular as a framework for microservices. In this tutorial I will show you how to produce and consume REST API's with Spring boot.
Handling forms is a common task in web development. In this article I'll demonstrate how to use Spring and JSR-303 bean validation to create proper forms.
In this article I will explain how you can use internationalization (i18n) to your Spring boot applications using properties and programmatical approaches.
Dozer is a simple bean mapping framework, which allows you to convert an object of a specific type, to an object of another type.
Object mapping is a common practice in developing apps when you need to get across the different tiers. MapStruct is a framework for mapping objects.
When developing applications, error handling is a common job. With Spring MVC you can easily handle exceptions using a few annotations.
