Helidon: 2x Productivity With Microprofile REST Client

Make yourself for productive with Helidon.

We have already many articles before on how to write Microservice using the Helidon framework. We are going to further enhance our code with Microprofile REST Client to increase 2x productivity.

Microprofile REST Client Overview

There are many frameworks available in the market to test REST APIs + automation. Microprofile introduced a new concept of REST Client by default. That we can write type-safe REST Client while writing our code with few lines of code. This will speed up our API development and automation productivity in a great style.

Understanding the Use Cases of Java Generics

Understanding general use cases of generics solves half of the problem. First things first, we should know what they are, why to consider them, and where they apply.

What Is It?

Consider a simple add method, seen below. You cannot pass long, float, or double types as inputs to this method, right?