This is an example of how to use AngularJS + Feign + Spring Cloud.
Main Point: It has never been easier to do REST in Java.
This application goes to https://api.github.com and lists contributors of a repository.
Feign abstracts the Rest Client and Unmarshalling of JSON objects.
You can run it like a spring boot app: mvn spring-boot:run
You can see it working in your browser or curl: http://localhost:8080
Ex: http://localhost:8080/netflix/hystrix - lists contributors of Hystrix. http://localhost:8080/jquery/jquery- lists contributors of jQuery.
Every time you make a request the App goes to the REST github API and gets back with the information populated in a list of Pojos (Contributor.java).
Isn't that really Awesome? Enjoy!