Kotlin JVM Spring Boot REST API Implementation

• written in Kotlin for the JVM

• using Spring Boot and common Spring Boot starters

• exposes a REST API defined by a Kotlin interface with Spring Web annotations

• Gradle build using Kotlin DSL

• targeting Java 11

Platform

The platform comprises all libraries/modules/packages that are by definition always present and are pre-approved to appear in all layers of the system, including domain.

• Jave SE 11 (https://docs.oracle.com/en/java/javase/11/docs/api/java.se/module-summary.html), but trying to use only

  • java.base (https://docs.oracle.com/en/java/javase/11/docs/api/java.base/module-summary.html)

  • java.logging (https://docs.oracle.com/en/java/javase/11/docs/api/java.logging/module-summary.html)

• Kotlin standard library for Common and JVM targets (https://kotlinlang.org/api/latest/jvm/stdlib/)

• JSR-330 javax.inject so that @Inject is used instead of Spring’s @Autowired