I think it would be fair to state that we, as software developers, are always looking for the ways to write less code
which does more stuff, automagically or not. With this regards, Spring Boot project, proud member of the Spring portfolio, disrupted the traditional approaches, dramatically speeding up and simplifying Spring-based applications development.
There is a lot to be said about Spring Boot, intrinsic details of how it works and its seamless integration with most if not all Spring projects. But its capabilities go far beyond that, supporting first-class integration with popular Java frameworks.
In this post we are going to take a look at how we can use Spring Boot in conjunction with Apache CXF
project for a rapid REST(ful) web services development. As we are going to see very soon, Spring Boot takes care of quite a lot of boilerplate, letting us to concentrate on the parts of the application which do have real value. Hopefully, at the end of this post the benefits of adopting Spring Boot for your projects become apparent.
With that, let us get started by developing a simple people management REST(ful) web service, wrapped up into familiar PeopleRestService JAX-RS resource: