#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:

install java (version 1.8.0_144 )
install groovy (version 2.5.0-beta-1)
install gradle (4.1)

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.