springboot-project-accelerator

Spring boot project accelerator that can serve as reference for bootstrapping projects using Java and Spring to produce a REST API.

The simple REST API provides two endpoints for geography data (/continents and /countries/{continentCode}).

Get Started

1. Setup development tools and environment
   • https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/java/java-spring-boot
2. Clone repo
3. Build and run the application via "F5" in vscode (or run the debugger)
4. Exercise the API via postman

Download and install https://www.getpostman.com and then import the collection in the "postman" folder in file "SBPA-API.postman_collection.json" and run the requests to see api data and responses - see more info: https://learning.getpostman.com/docs

Spring

• https://spring.io/

Spring Boot

• https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/java/java-spring-boot
• https://gradle.org/maven-vs-gradle/
• https://www.baeldung.com/spring-boot-run-maven-vs-executable-jar
• https://attacomsian.com/blog/processing-json-spring-boot

Spring REST

• https://github.com/spring-guides/gs-rest-service#scratch
• https://spring.io/guides/gs/rest-service/
• https://github.com/eugenp/tutorials/tree/master/spring-data-rest