Creating REST Clients for JAX-RS based Webservices with Netflix Feign

Thu, 22 Oct 2015 00:00:00 +0200

For us developers there plenty of libraries exist helping us in deriving and generating clients for existing RESTful web-services and I have already covered some of the in this blog (e.g. the JAX-RS Client API). Nevertheless, I’d like to share my experience with another interesting lightweight library here: Netflix Feign.

Feign offers a nice fluent-builder API, a rich integration for common libraries and APIs like JAX-RS, Jackson, GSON, SAX, JAX-B, OkHttp, Ribbon, Hystrix, SLF4J and more and last bot not least, it is setup easy and the service contracts are specified using interfaces and annotations.

Gson on Micha Kops' Tech Notes

Creating REST Clients for JAX-RS based Webservices with Netflix Feign