MY NV Project

lombok.jar : this is used to auto generate getter and setter methods 

swagger-ui : This is used to help develoeprs to test rest api instead of postman / SOAPUI

Annotations 

REST API  Annotations

RestController

Api

RequestMapping

Autowired

ApiOperartion

PostMapping

GetMapping

PutMapping

DeleteMapping

RequestBody

PathVariable

RequestParm

Service

Override

Transactional

Component

Entity/Hibernate annotations 

Converter

DynamicUpdate

Entity

Table

NamedQuery

Id

GeneratedValue

Column

JsonBackRefernce

ManytoOne

JoinColumn

Lombok annotations (Lombok Annotations Support for VS Code - Visual Studio Marketplace)

       @Getter and    @Setter

       @AllArgsConstructor , @RequiredArgsConstructor and @NoArgsConstructor

      @ToString

      @RequiredArgsConstructor

      @EqualsAndHashCode

      @Slf4j (simple Logging Facade for Java) 

      @Data (shortcut for @ToString, @EqualsAndHashCode, @Getter , @Setter and @RequiredArgsConstructor)

For groovy instead of lombok you can use @Canonical (java - Compilation error - Groovy and Lombok - Stack Overflow)

Spring MVC internal converts java object to JSON using MappingJackson2HttpMessageConverter

https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/io.springfox/springfox-swagger2

http://localhost:8080/swagger-resources

http://localhost:8080/v2/api-docs

http://localhost:8080/swagger-ui/index.html

http://localhost:8080/swagger-ui.html