Spring Boot Microservices – Exposing repositories as REST resources
For any application, it is an important functionality to be able to provide its data to the consumer. REST APIs are one of the most popular ways to do so. In this post, we will look at the process of exposing repositories as REST resources using Spring Boot. REST or Representational State Transfer is an architectural style that advocates the use of standard HTTP protocol to expose such an interface. And by the way, Spring Boot makes it very easy to do so.