We use spring 4.3 and spring boot version 1.5 in our web application. For (product) analytics purposes we want to read the metadata of our product which is persisted in an RDBMS store (Oracle). Our application uses spring framework to define services that access the database through hibernate (jpa). These services add business logic to the data and return the response to the UI layer.
For analytics purposes we want to read the product metadata which involves mashing up calls to various spring based services. We don't want to add this logic inside the application to avoid any code changes to the application code and get affected by it's release cycle. We want a quick way to fetch the metadata from outside the application. Defining REST based api's for these spring services is also not an option. The analytics application needs to fetch this metadata from multiple application deployments(for different customers) which are on different software versions.
Is it possible to call spring based services from another application?
Thanks.