The last MicroProfile extension we will discuss in this chapter is the REST client extension. The goal of this API is to provide you with a type safe way to invoke REST services in a microservice architecture.
Don't confuse the MicroProfile REST client API with the JAX-RS Client API! They implement different standards: the JAX-RS Client API is implemented according to JSR 370 ( https://www.jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=370), while the MicroProfile REST Client API follows the standard specified here: http://microprofile.io/project/eclipse/microprofile-rest-client.
In order to learn about the REST client API, we will be using it as a template for the Chapter06/rest-client application. This project is nothing but a cut-down version of our customer service, which just contains interfaces instead of service implementations. In terms of configuration...
