1. Java 8 or greater
2. NPM 2.13 or greater
3. Maven 3.3 or greater
4. MySQL 5.5 or greater

To configure the system:

1. Run npm install from inside the application's folder
2. Create database schema for the application with the name of your preference (the tables are created and populated automatically during the first run)
3. Open the configuration file src/main/resources/config/application-dev.yml and set:
   1. spring.datasource.url with the database host, port and schema (defaults to localhost, 3306 and acme respectively).
   2. server.port with server port (defaults to 8080)

After that execute mvn spring-boot:run from inside the application's folder to run the application and navigate to http://localhost:8080 in your browser (note the port number might be different according to your configuration and sudo might be necessary for ports below 1024).

To build a distribution package:

1. Run mvn clean package
2. Copy target/acme-1.0.1.war file to a new folder
3. Inside this folder create two subfolders, one called config and one called mediaResources
4. Copy src/main/resources/config/application-dev.yml into the config folder

To run the distribution packaged application:

1. Create database schema for the application with the name of your preference (the tables are created and populated automatically during the first run)
2. Configure the database and server port in the config/application-dev.yml file as explained above
3. Run java -jar acme-1.0.1.war (sudo might be necessary if configured with a port below 1024)

Finally navigate to http://localhost:8080 in your browser (note the port number might be different according to your configuration and deployment environment).