How To Add Swagger To Java REST API
A Beginner’s Guide with an example project
API development has become an integral part of any web development. API’s are the ones which decouple the server and the client. With the advent of REST APIs, it has become more common to consume JSON response on the UI side. You can enable CORS and even make cross-domain requests as well. Most of the time the same person doesn’t build or work on them. It’s very difficult for the front-end team to consume the APIs that don’t have proper documentation.
So, it’s very important to write documentation for your APIs so that whoever consumes those understand them, implement them, and play around with them. Swagger simplifies API development for users, teams, and enterprises with the Swagger open source and professional toolset.
In this post, we will see how we can use Swagger with the Java REST API with an example project.
- Prerequisites
- Example Project
- Implementation
- Summary
- Conclusion
Prerequisites
There are some prerequisites you need to know before starting this project. You should install Java on your machine to run it on your machine. You need some IDE like IntelliJ IDEA or…
