Welcome back! In the first blog article, we developed a simple Spring Boot application that prints “Hello World” to the console. In this article, we will build a ReST API that can be called by the API clients. In a typical Spring Boot application, you will have a relational database with a number of tables that are related to each other. In this article, to keep things simple, we will focus on an application with a single table. In the next article, we will extend this exampl

In this blog article series, we will incrementally build a Spring Boot ReST API. We will start from scratch so that readers who are new to Spring Boot can easily follow along with us. In this first article, we will develop a simple Spring Boot application that prints “Hello World” to the console. Step-1: Go to the Spring Initializr website (https://start.spring.io/) and create/download a Spring Boot project. Use the settings shown in the image below: Step-2: Unzip the zip fi