We are trying to build a new Business API layer in between UI and applications/services.
Which project in spring is best and will serve the needs for developing Biz Api's with restful services?
Is it Spring Cloud or Spring Boot?
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From the [official project page](http://projects.spring.io/spring-cloud/): "Spring Cloud builds on Spring Boot (...)" – kryger Apr 06 '15 at 15:10
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Thank you. So, can I assume Spring Cloud project is the recommendation/way to build Business API. – SpringForLiving Apr 06 '15 at 15:49
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1I am still learning the two projects. So any information is helpful and appreciated – SpringForLiving Apr 06 '15 at 15:49
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Spring Boot is app-centric. As @kryger said, Spring Cloud builds on boot. It solves higher level problems, such as:
- Distributed configuration: How to configure every instance of all of your services (standard boot config files checked into git or svn and distributed via config server).
- Service registration and discovery: how to locate a specific instance of a service (using Netflix Eureka)
- Client Side load balancing: intelligently choose an instance of a service to use (using Netflix Ribbon) via a smart algorithm such as: round robin or response time
- Plug into Ribbon via Spring Rest Template or Netflix Feign.
- Serve all assets and api's via a proxy that is plugged into service discovery and load balancing (Netflix Zuul).
- Stop cascading api failures with the Circuit Breaker pattern via Netflix Hystrix and visualize the health of all circuits with the Hystrix Dashboard.
- Send commands to all or some services via a lightweight message bus.
- Use oauth2 to protect resources
- and other things I've probably forgotten.
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Well the choice is yours based upon the need .
If you have multiple services and need service configuration , discovery , fault tolerant etc. then use Spring cloud features using spring boot app. Also cloud native libraries are also available for the dedicated Cloud services providers .
If you have just a single service and you are aware of your hosting mechanism then just a simple spring boot App is good enough .
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My upvote was based on the second paragraph, especially the phrase "if (...) you are aware of your host mechanism". Good point. – Almir Campos Dec 31 '19 at 21:33