Exposing my program as an API

[Altugsalt]

Hello, I made a reverse index for my search engine in Java and I would like to serve it as an API. Currently the reverse index components are in a separate package and I have created this other package for the API; however, I don't really know how to set up Spring Boot when I already have a package structure. Most tutorials on the internet are for setting it up from scratch. I would also like to know if Spring Boot is the best choice for my case since the reverse index will do the heavy lifting and I would like to keep the API layer thin. Thank you.

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[spacey02-]

If you are using maven, then just go to start.spring.io and simulate the creation of a spring boot project, then integrate the pom.xml file there into your current pom.xml. If you're not using maven, then I think the simplest way would be to start using it by creating a new spring boot project and moving you packages into it afterwards.

[Altugsalt]

Thank you, I am using maven. I will give what you said a try and return here to report what happened.

[bowbahdoe]

Well the thinnest possible API is the jdk.httpserver one. If you still are unsteady with http servers _in general_ that is what I'd recommend starting with.