Description

This project is a template based on Spring Boot for REST applications.

It already includes the following:

• Employee entity
• Repository layer for the entity
• Service layer for the entity
• Rest controller for CRUD-operations regarding the entity
• Simple web frontend based on Thymeleaf and Bootstrap 4
• Unit and Integration tests for all layers

Quick start

For a quick start, just fill in the following properties in the application.properties file:

• spring.datasource.username
• spring.datasource.password
• spring.datasource.url

Dependencies

The included pom.xml contains the following dependencies:

• Spring Boot Starter
  • Spring Boot Starter Data JPA
  • Spring Boot Starter Web
  • Spring Boot Starter Thymeleaf
  • Spring Boot DevTools
  • Spring Boot Starter Test
• Other
  • MySQL Connector
  • Lombok
  • Jackson Dataformat XML
  • ModelMapper
  • Jetbrains Annotations
  • Google Guava
• Tests
  • JUnit Jupiter
  • H2-Database
  • RestAssured
• Code analysis
  • Findbugs
  • PMD
  • Checkstyle

Pre-configured

Other nice pre-configured things are:

• xml configuration file for logback
• Database initializer to populate the database with sample values
• application properties file for development and test (profiles)