Blab-a-Gag is a fairly simple forum type application which allows:

• users to post a one-liner joke
• users to follow the jokes of other users or not (heckle or ignore)
• users to comment on other users messages (heckle)

/reset will reset the data in the database with a load of:

• users
• jokes
• heckles

/feed shows the jokes/heckles that are relevant to the current user.

/blabbers shows a list of all other users and allows the current user to heckle or ignore.

/profile allows the current user to modify their profile.

/login allows you to log in to your account

/register allows you to create a new user account

Build and installation requires Maven, MySQL and Tomcat.

The simplest way to aquire these on MacOS is via Homebrew. Install Homebrew then:

brew install maven mysql tomcat

Set up a database in MySQL called blab with a user of blab and password z2^E6J4$;u;d

mvn package will build the web application and output a war file to target/verademo.war

Deploy the resulting war file to Tomcat.

Open /reset in your browser and follow the instructions to prep the database

Login with your username/password as defined in Utils.java