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This post is based on the common questions raised about registry mounting and how it works etc. Below are the main questions people ask: 1). How mounting works? 2). What is the difference between Config Registry and Governance Registry? 3). Can I use databases other than H2 for Local Registry? 4). What is meant by mount path and target path? 5). Do I need to configure “remoteInstance” URL? 6). What should I use as the cacheId? So let's start with how to configure a registry mount. When you are configuring the registry mount, you have to add the relevant data source to the master-datasources.xml file. In addition to that, you have to add mounting related configuration into the registry.xml file as well. In the master-datasources.xml file you have to just configure a JDBC data source by providing JDBC URL, username, password, validation queries, connection optimization parameters, etc. An example data source entry will look like below. Note: You need to add below configura

In the last post, I talked about my experience with creating RESTFul Services using Spring Boot . When creating a REST API, proper documentation is a mandatory part of it. What is Swagger? Swagger (Swagger 2) is a specification for describing and documenting a REST API. It specifies the format of the REST web services including URL, Resources, methods, etc. Swagger will generate documentation from the application code and handle the rendering part as well. In this post, I am going to integrate Swagger 2 documentation into a Spring Boot based REST web service. So I am going to use Springfox implementation to generate the swagger documentation. If you want to know how to run/build Spring Boot project, please refer my previous post. Springfox provides two dependencies to generate API Doc and Swagger UI. If you are not expecting to integrate Swagger UI into your API level, no need to add  Swagger UI dependency. <dependency>     <groupId>io.springfox</groupId>

Everyone is talking about Microservices such as WSO2 Microservice Framework , Spring Boot , etc. Since I haven't worked on any Spring related project since a very long time, I thought to implement a simple RESTFul service using Spring Boot. So I started with Spring documentation. It is straightforward.  You can create the structure of your project using " Spring Initializr ". This is an online tool where you can add all the desired dependencies to your project POM file. Since I am a big fan of Maven, I am generating a maven project. In the Spring Initializr UI, you can choose the Language, Spring Boot Version, Project Group ID, artifact name, etc. Please refer below screenshot for information I have provided while generating the project. When clicking on "Generate Project", it will download zipped maven project into your computer. Unzip it and import into an IDE. The initial project structure is like below. In my HelloWorld REST service impleme