Integrating with a 3rd-party web service

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The corresponding source code is in the step-5 folder of the guide repository.

Modern applications rarely live on a separated island as they need to integrate with other (distributed) application and services. Integration is very often achieved using APIs exposed over the versatile HTTP protocol.

This section shows how to integrate with a 3rd-party web service using the HTTP client APIs of Vert.x.