Adding dependencies to pom.xml

Before we start the configuration, we need to add the required dependencies. These dependencies included Spring Fox in our project and offered many annotations to configure Swagger properly. Let's add these dependencies.

The new dependencies are in the pom.xml file:

<dependency>
  <groupId>io.springfox</groupId>
  <artifactId>springfox-swagger2</artifactId>
  <version>2.7.0</version>
</dependency>

<dependency>
  <groupId>io.springfox</groupId>
  <artifactId>springfox-swagger-ui</artifactId>
  <version>2.7.0</version>
</dependency>

The first dependency is the core of Swagger with annotations and related kinds of stuff. Spring Fox Swagger UI dependency provides a rich interface in HTML which permits developers to interact with the APIs.