Swagger

http://petstore.swagger.io/ automatically generated console, documenting the interfaces and allowing you to test them.... better than the WSDL-based test client generator... but I wonder how much work is needed, I would hate to have to manually edit YAML files to generate this UI...

short and sweet presentation (skip first 3 minutes)





A live example here, using Spring Boot

git clone https://github.com/TechPrimers/spring-boot-swagger-example.git
cd spring-boot-swagger-example
mvn spring-boot:run

in your browser put http://localhost:8088/swagger-ui.html







Main annotations are:

io.swagger.annotations.Api (class level)

io.swagger.annotations.ApiOperation , io.swagger.annotations.ApiResponses, io.swagger.annotations.ApiResponse at method level

io.swagger.annotations.ApiModelProperty at field level


and to document the Site:
springfox.documentation.spring.web.plugins.Docket
springfox.documentation.swagger2.annotations.EnableSwagger2
etc etc

all the rest are org.springframework.web.bind.annotation annotations (GetMapping, PathVariable, RequestMapping, RestController)


This is a good tutorial https://jmchung.github.io/blog/2013/12/14/integrating-swagger-into-jax-rs-with-java-ee-6-specification/