This chapter focuses on the development environment setup and configurations. If you are familiar with the tools and libraries, you could skip this chapter and continue with Chapter 3, Domain-Driven Design, where you could explore the domain-driven design (DDD).
This chapter will cover the following topics:
- NetBeans IDE installation and setup
- Spring Boot configuration
- Sample REST program with Java 9 modules
- Building setup
- REST API testing using the Postman extension of Chrome
This book will use only the open source tools and frameworks for examples and code. This book will also use Java 9 as its programming language, and the application framework will be based on the Spring Framework. This book makes use of Spring Boot to develop microservices.
NetBeans' Integrated Development Environment (IDE) provides state of the art support for...