Описание тега spring-hateoas
Spring HATEOAS provides some APIs to ease creating REST representations that follow the HATEOAS principle when working with Spring and especially Spring MVC. The core problem it tries to address is link creation and representation assembly.
HATEOAS (Hypertext A s T he E ngine of A pplication State)
Resources
Clarification by Roy Fielding that HATEOAS is required for REST.
Building REST services with Spring explains what HATEOAS is, why it is required for REST and how to implement it using Spring MVC and Spring HATEOAS.