Conventions

In this book, you will find a number of text styles that distinguish between different kinds of information. Here are some examples of these styles and an explanation of their meaning.

Code words in text, database table names, folder names, filenames, file extensions, pathnames, dummy URLs, user input, and Twitter handles are shown as follows:

"The @SpringBootApplication annotation replaces the different annotation required in the Spring framework."

A block of code is set as follows:

@SpringBootApplication
@EnableZuulProxy
public class ApiGatewayExampleInSpring
{
  public static void main(String[] args)    
  {
    SpringApplication.run(ApiGatewayExampleInSpring.class, args);
  }
}

Any command-line input or output is written as follows:

mvn spring-boot:run

New terms and important words are shown in bold.

Warnings or important notes appear like this.

Tips and tricks appear like this.