# Implementing a REST API with Spring Boot Planning to create a full functioning REST API can be fairly intimidating, but with the right tools it isn’t really that hard. In order to achieve our goal we found Spring Boot to meet all of our requirements. Spring does not only provide easy ways to create RESTful APIs with Spring MVC, but it allows us to conveniently access a database of our choice with Spring Data and Hibernate as well as it provides a whole Security framework with Spring Security