#REST Endpoint sample application w/ Spring Boot This is a sample application using Spring Boot and REST to serve up an endpoint.
##Setup You'll need Java 1.8, Groovy, and Gradle installed locally to run this application. You can install Groovy & Gradle using Homebrew with the following commands:
brew install groovy
brew install gradle
Once you've got the dependencies installed, building and running the code is as easy as:
gradle bootrun
After the service has started up, you can test it out locally by hitting the following URL:
http://localhost:8080/ping
If everything is successfully configured and running, you'll see a short JSON response when you hit that URL.