spring-cloudnetflix-eureka

What's the difference between EnableEurekaClient and EnableDiscoveryClient?

In some applications, I saw people are using @EnableEurekaClient. And some other example applications are using @EnableDiscoveryClient.

Is there any difference between these two?

Solution

  • There are multiple implementations of "Discovery Service" (eureka, consul, zookeeper). @EnableDiscoveryClient lives in spring-cloud-commons and picks the implementation on the classpath. @EnableEurekaClient lives in spring-cloud-netflix and only works for eureka. If eureka is on your classpath, they are effectively the same.