Pivotal Cloud Foundry Spring Boot JPA demo written in Kotlin

I created the following demo for PCF using spring boot / PCF. After showing a colleague he decided he would write a Kotlin version of the same application. It's interesting to see how the Kotlin classes differ to those of Java.

https://github.com/papicella/PivotalSpringBootJPA

The Kotlin version of the same application is here.

https://github.com/papicella/Kotlin-PivotalSpringBootJPA

Kotlin is a functional language developed by the JetBrains guys. Its main benefits are:

• Conciseness of code
• Code safety - Null safety by not allowing nulls values unless one specifies variables to be null.
• Interoptability - 100% Java interop.
• Ease of use and reduced learning curve
• Great tooling - As support in Intellij Idea is brilliant