Building a REST API with Spring Boot
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In this lesson, you learned how REST uses HTTP to define CRUD operations in an API. You then learned how to define a Spring Controller to implement the REST Read endpoint, and how to use additional Spring functionality to easily process the Request and Response in a Controller.
Now, let’s go implement our first REST endpoint using Spring and Spring Boot!
Carlton Schuyler
Staff Solutions Architect, Software Engineer
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Joe Moore
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Josh Long
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