Summary

In this chapter, you have explored various aspects of setting up a development environment, Maven configurations, Spring Boot configurations, and so on.

You have also learned how to make use of Spring Boot to develop a sample REST service application. We learned how powerful Spring Boot is—it eases development so much that you only have to worry about the actual code, and not about the boilerplate code or configurations that you write. We have also packaged our code into a JAR file with an embedded application container Jetty. This allows it to run and access the web application without worrying about the deployment.

In the next chapter, you will learn about domain-driven design (DDD) using a sample project that can be used across the remainder of the chapters. We'll use the online table reservation system (OTRS) sample project to go through various phases of microservices development and understand the DDD. After completing Chapter 3, Domain-Driven Design, you will learn the fundamentals of DDD.

You will understand how to use the DDD by design sample services in practical terms. You will also learn to design the domain models and REST services on top of it.