swagger-core vs swagger-maven-plugin

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swagger-core		swagger-maven-plugin
	Project
5	Mentions	1
7,333	Stars	758
0.2%	Growth	-
8.5	Activity	0.0
9 days ago	Latest Commit	4 months ago
Java	Language	Java
Apache License 2.0	License	Apache License 2.0

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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.

swagger-core

Posts with mentions or reviews of swagger-core. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-06-14.

Auto OpenAPI Generation — The Network Doesn’t Lie!
8 projects | dev.to | 14 Jun 2022

Examples include Swagger-Core, SpringFox, NSwag / Swashbuckle, Swagger-express / HAPI-Swagger, Django-REST-Swagger / Flask-RESTplus, etc.
OpenAPI Specification: The Complete Guide
19 projects | dev.to | 18 May 2022

JAX-RS is a java implementation of the OpenAPI Specification. - GitHub - swagger-api/swagger-core
URL Shortener: Java & Spring complete tutorial
6 projects | dev.to | 4 May 2022

Now Swagger UI is configured and we can start documenting our API. Inside UrlController, above every endpoint, we can use @ApiOperation annotation to add description. Depending on your needs you can use some other annotations.
Using Swagger API
6 projects | dev.to | 18 Mar 2022

Here is an example from Swagger APIs GitHub:
Organize code by concepts, not layers
4 projects | /r/programming | 5 Jun 2021

Im mostly in C# land nowadays, but this seems to be the java version. I’m not sure it is as deeply integrated, as I think Java has a few popular server frameworks.

swagger-maven-plugin

Posts with mentions or reviews of swagger-maven-plugin. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-05-18.

OpenAPI Specification: The Complete Guide
19 projects | dev.to | 18 May 2022

The Swagger Maven Plugin generate Swagger specs and customizable, templated static documents during the maven build phase- GitHub - kongchen/swagger-maven-plugin

What are some alternatives?

When comparing swagger-core and swagger-maven-plugin you can also consider the following projects:

springdoc-openapi - Library for OpenAPI 3 with spring-boot

openapi4j - OpenAPI 3 parser, JSON schema and request validator.

swagger-blocks - Define and serve live-updating Swagger JSON for Ruby apps.

Swashbuckle.AspNetCore - Swagger tools for documenting API's built on ASP.NET Core

springfox - Automated JSON API documentation for API's built with Spring

utoipa - Simple, Fast, Code first and Compile time generated OpenAPI documentation for Rust

OpenAPI.NET - The OpenAPI.NET SDK contains a useful object model for OpenAPI documents in .NET along with common serializers to extract raw OpenAPI JSON and YAML documents from the model.

drf-spectacular - Sane and flexible OpenAPI 3 schema generation for Django REST framework.

swagger-brake - Swagger contract checker for breaking API changes

swag - Automatically generate RESTful API documentation with Swagger 2.0 for Go.