This guide describes how to set up a Spring Boot microservice and integrate it in the microservice system landscape.
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Jolokia is an HTTP/JSON bridge for remote JMX access. This dependency is needed to be able to access a services's JMX beans from the admin-service user interface.
spring-cloud-starter-config
(https://cloud.spring.io/spring-cloud-config/)
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The configuration parameter server.port specifies at which port the service should be started (see also Overview of Microservices). The port is also used as spring.application.index. The spring.application.name is the service name with which it signs in to Discovery. If multiple services have the same name, the Discovery Service treats them as a service group, even if the instances are running on different hosts and ports. However, if you plan to have the same service running with different configurations for different applications in a system landscape, then these should have different names. One example would be to use the gateway service once with NTLM authentication and once with basic authentication.
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