You have read tons of articles on FHIR and the tell-tale signs have appeared on hairs on the back of your neck. Your gut tells you to get your feet wet (you got to admit that is funny, gut talking to feet) and ease out that angst. You may be an Architect (hands-on or not) or hands-on Engineer or may be rusty on coding or even deep into it, you could be coming from any such background but FHIR is the beast that you are looking to wrestle. If this speaks to you then let's work together for 10 minutes and then you can go back to the world of FHIR with a renewed goal like Robert the Bruce from the famous spider legend.
This code is for FHIR Facade pattern meaning that we are not going for full FHIR Restful Server implementation and our objective here is to only retrieve data. We will use Spring Boot just because those Booties are so awesome and simple. We will also use our friendly HAPI FHIR library to create our java application.