This project contains a web service based on the Spring Boot framework. It features a RESTful endpoint that can retrieve word expansions.

• Check out and run the ApplicationController
• default port is 8080
• for deployment, port can be edited in /resources/application.properties
• check with "curl localhost:8080/expansions?word=IBM&format=json"
• for textual output: "curl localhost:8080/expansions?word=IBM&format=text"