If you are not convinced by the annotation-like style, you may always create a Feign client manually using the Feign Builder API. Feign has several features that can be customized, such as encoders and decoders for messages or HTTP client implementation:
AccountClient accountClient = Feign.builder().client(new OkHttpClient()) .encoder(new JAXBEncoder()) .decoder(new JAXBDecoder()) .contract(new JAXRSContract()) .requestInterceptor(new BasicAuthRequestInterceptor("user", "password")) .target(AccountClient.class, "http://account-service");
