I'll take a look at it. Thanks

Spring Boot. Its is simpler and works with other spring ecosystem. It saves you a lot of time and the need to be adding unnecessary annotations. Read my beginner level in depth tutorial on how to build REST API in Spring Boot with MySQL https://medium.com/@salisuwy/building-a-spring-boot-rest-api-a-php-developers-view-part-i-6add2e794646 https://medium.com/@salisuwy/building-a-spring-boot-rest-api-part-ii-7ff1e4384b0b https://medium.com/@salisuwy/building-a-spring-boot-rest-api-part-iii-integrating-mysql-database-and-jpa-81391404046a Good luck