RESTful web services - Spring Boot

Installation

Download the source code. You can either download it as a zip file and extract it or simply type the command in the terminal or bash or cmd,

git clone https://github.com/shehand/RESTful-Web-Service-Spring-Boot.git

change your directory into the project folder. And run the command,

mvn install

• For windows try this link to install maven.
• for ubuntu you can use this link to install maven.

Next run the command,

mvn spring-boot:run

and the server will start automatically. Try to visit this url to see the api documentation.

NOTE

If you failed to start the server try to configure your database details with the project. To update database details find the file located in src\main\resources and find the file application.properties. And update followind details.

spring.datasource.username=<your database username> spring.datasource.password=<your database user's password>

And then you will be good to go. Make sure to start the spring app when you are done editing the above mention file.

If you wan't to run the jar version of the spring app, locate to the folder /target which will be in your directory when you run the mvn install command, and in there you will see you .jar file.

To run the jar file, use the below code.

java -jar mobile-app-ws-0.0.1-SNAPSHOT.jar

PR's are welcome. Please submit any issue that you will face when developing your spring-boot application.