Building RESTful Web Services in Spring 5 with Maven

In this chapter, we will build a simple REST web service that returns Aloha. Before moving to the implementation, we will focus on what components are involved in creating a RESTful web service. In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

• Building a RESTful web service with Apache Maven
• Using the Eclipse IDE or STS for Spring REST project
• Creating a new project in Eclipse/STS
• Running and testing our REST API