In this section, I will implement the same football player microservice build that we saw in Chapter 4, Building Microservices Using Thorntail. I will analyze the details of the server-side layer of the application, (since the client layer remains the same, implemented using Angular 6).
The results will be a simple football player microservice that handles the football players' domain: it will expose CRUD APIs and will store and retrieve information using a PostgreSQL database.
You can complete the entire application build that we saw in Chapter 4, Building Microservices Using Thorntail, using the same approach that we will implement here.
To build the application, I will use the following tools, and for each one I will specify the information needed to install it:
- Apache Maven 3.5.4: https://maven.apache.org/install.html
- JDK 1.8.0_171: You are free to use Oracle JDK or OpenJDK, but we recommend OpenJDK (http://openjdk.java.net/install/)
- Vert.x version 3.5.4: We will describe the instructions to use this later
- Docker Community Edition 18.06.1: In order to easily install and use the different databases needed for our application (https://docs.docker.com/install/)