The Spring Data Rest exporter is a project that aims to make it easy to expose various services as Rest endpoints. The goal of the project is to provide a flexible and configurable mechanism for writing simple services that can expose arbitrary services over HTTP.

The first exporter implemented is a JPA Repository exporter. This takes your JPA repositories and front-ends them with HTTP, allowing you full CRUD capability over your entities, to include managing associations.

Installation

To use the Spring Data Rest exporter, first package your domain classes and repositories into a JAR file. Include some Spring XML configuration files in the META-INF/spring-data-rest directory in that JAR file (including an applicable EntityManager and DataSource).

You can either deploy this JAR file into your Servlet container in a "shared" configuration, or you can add this JAR file (and any other application dependencies to the exporter WAR file's WEB-INF/lib directory.