This project contains small spring-boot based web application, which is some kind of a wrapper API over the VIES vat API. Reasons to create this project is to solve two issues with original VIES API:

• provide comfortable access by using REST instead of SOAP (used by VIES)
• asynchronous calls to help with poor availability of VIES api

Currently, the project needs to be considered as in-progress. There is plenty of stuff to be improved and added:

• introduction of docker
• deployment environments (currently there is single env)
• adding the static code analysis / formatting tools for maven
• considering caching of vat numbers
• securing the API with f.e. tokens
• ...

In order to run the app you are required to have MySQL v8 running on localhost and configured according to ApplicationProperties file.