This example shows how you can embed Vert.x in Spring Boot, having:

• Spring container creating the verticles

• a standard verticle with Vert.x web for the REST API

• Spring backend services (with declarative transaction management and JPA repositories)

• a worker verticle exposing the Spring services over the event bus through service proxies

This might be useful if you have an existing Spring codebase and want to keep your data access layer.

To try the example, execute this command in a terminal:

Then add a book to the database:

You should now be able to see your book saved:

Notice that the id field is now set which means that the book as indeed been persisted in the database.