Spring HATEOAS provides some APIs to ease creating REST representations that follow the HATEOAS principle when working with Spring and especially Spring MVC. The core problem it tries to address is link creation and representation assembly.
Features
Model classes for link, resource representation models
Link builder API to create links pointing to Spring MVC controller methods
Support for hypermedia formats like HAL
Spring Boot Config
Spring Boot will do the following:
Configure HAL support
Register support for entity links
Wire up message converter support.
Quick start
Bootstrap your application with Spring Initializr.
