I am working on a project which is kinda old. It is a spring 4 rest server application which uses Jax RS @Path annotations over spring's @RestController annotation. And the default servlet is also Jax Rs's Application. Its weird.. and I have no clue why the original devs did that. And it doesn't use Spring boot.
I'm trying to write a reverse proxy into this server which will let me use newer microservices projects to expose new endpoints and thus new functionality.
Now, I have a few options.
I can implement something like Zuul proxy.. which from online examples.. uses Spring Boot annotations like
@EnableZuulProxy.. I'm not sure if my non-spring boot rest API would understand that annotation.I can use Spring's
RestTemplateto define generic HTTP services and do header and server/service management myself.
In this case, I want to use a properties file to inject values of Servers and the services they host as a Map<String, List<String>> serviceMapping; Using @Value and @ConfigurationProperties annotations. The second one I believe comes with Spring Boot.
I guess my questions are..
- can I use auto-configuration that springboot provides in a Spring container app that is built without boot.
- And what are your thoughts on Zuul vs rest template approaches?
- What could be the reason to use JAX-RS annotations over spring's?
