Enter Spring Boot REST

Understand RESTful web services and its architecture, which sits on top of Spring MVC.

(Draw a comparison with existing Spring MVC Flow Diagram)

1.1 Ref: Full Stack Overview.png

1.2 Refer to: REST Simplified

1.3 Diag: web app vs web service

1.4 Readme: RestController vs MVC Controller and Annotations.txt

1.5 Develop: the backend for Blog management for category resource (CRUD)

Tech Stack

• JDK 21
• Embedded Tomcat 10.1
• Jakarta EE 9/10
• Spring Boot 3.x
• IDE: STS 4

Steps

1. Create Spring Boot app: Using Spring Boot Starter Project (choose packaging as JAR).

2. Use same Spring Boot starters as earlier:

   • Spring Web
   • MySQL Driver
   • Spring Data JPA
   • Lombok
   • Spring Dev Tools
   • Validation
   • Actuator

3. NO additional dependencies for view layer (i.e., no JSTL and no tomcat-embedded-jasper dependencies in pom.xml).

4. Copy application.properties from earlier Spring Boot project

   (Do not add view resolver-related properties).