HATEOAS (Hypermedia as the Engine of Application State) specifies that REST APIs should provide enough information to the client to interact with the server. This is different from SOA (Service-Oriented Architecture) where a client and a server interact through a fixed contract. We’ll look more into HATEOAS in a while.
Spring Data Rest is built on top of Spring Data, Spring Web MVC & Spring Hateos. It analyzes all the domain models and exposes Hypermedia Driven REST endpoints for them automatically. In the meanwhile, all the features of Spring Data Repositories like sorting, pagination, etc. are available in these endpoints. https://goo.gl/29DV7v #DataIntegration #ML
