Enabling communication between microservices using the Ribbon client

Let's proceed with the example. It consists of four independent microservices. Some of them may call endpoints exposed by the others. The application source code is available here:

https://github.com/piomin/sample-spring-cloud-comm.git.

In this example, we will try to develop a simple order system where customers may buy products. If a customer decides to confirm a selected list of products to buy, the POST request is sent to the order-service. It is processed by the Order prepare(@RequestBody Order order) {...} method inside REST controller. This method is responsible for order preparation. First, it calculates the final price, considering the price of each product from ...

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