Introduction to gRPC with Spring Boot: A Modern RPC Framework
The article introduces developers to gRPC and its implementation with Spring Boot. gRPC is a modern open-source Remote Procedure Call (RPC) framework that can run in any environment. It uses Google's Protocol Buffer for serializing and deserializing structured data. The article highlights the use of a popular third-party project for integrating gRPC with Spring Boot, which has around 3.1k stars on GitHub. It also provides links to detailed documentation and a previous article that covers Protocol Buffers with Java. The author shares a GitHub repository containing source code for implementing gRPC communication in Spring Boot apps. The article then walks through the process of generating model classes and gRPC services using .proto manifests. It explains the structure of the model classes and messages used in the example apps. This article serves as a valuable resource for developers looking to explore gRPC and its integration with Spring Boot.