difference between openfeign or feign

Question

What is the difference between:

• spring-cloud-starter-openfeign (https://github.com/spring-cloud/spring-cloud-openfeign) and
• spring-cloud-starter-feign (https://github.com/spring-cloud/spring-cloud-netflix) ?

I found this issue when I was trying to follow a tutorial using openfeign @FeignClient(name=...). However, I was using feign, not openfeign, and this annotation was not the same.

Isn't it the same thing?

Answer 1

OpenFeign is the spiritual successor to Feign, originally provided by Netflix. The projects name was changed when the original project was released to the community. The correct dependency is spring-cloud-starter-openfeign.