Let's create a Spring Boot application that connects with the Spring Config Server to take advantage of reading external property sources from the central configuration server. So, for the client project, we have to add the following Maven configuration for the spring-cloud-starter-config and spring-boot-starter-web modules:
<dependencies><dependency><groupId>org.springframework.cloud</groupId><artifactId>spring-cloud-starter-config</artifactId></dependency><dependency><groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId><artifactId>spring-boot-starter-web</artifactId></dependency></dependencies>
Next, let's create a client class that is a simple REST controller with one GET method mapping: ...