Character management API

• JDK - Java™ Platform, Standard Edition Development Kit
• Spring Boot - Framework to ease the bootstrapping and development of new Spring Applications
• Maven - Dependency Management
• H2 - Open-Source Relational Database Management System
• git - Free and Open-Source distributed version control system
• OpenFeign - Declarative REST Client. Feign creates a dynamic implementation of an interface decorated with JAX-RS or Spring MVC annotations.
• Lombok - Never write another getter or equals method again, with one annotation your class has a fully featured builder, Automate your logging variables, and much more.
• Swagger - Open-Source software framework backed by a large ecosystem of tools that helps developers design, build, document, and consume RESTful Web services.
• Bootstrap - Bootstrap is an open source toolkit for developing with HTML, CSS, and JS.

• Postman - API Development Environment (Testing Docmentation)

• Microservice Architecture
• NoSQL (MongoDB)
• Security (JWT Authentication)
• HATEOS
• Docker
• Enhance Exception Handling

There are several ways to run a Spring Boot application on your local machine. One way is to execute the main method in the com.rakuten.challenge.CharacterManagementFrontendApplication class from your IDE.

• Download the zip or clone the Git repository.
• Unzip the zip file (if you downloaded one)
• Open Command Prompt and Change directory (cd) to folder containing pom.xml
• Open Eclipse
  • File -> Import -> Existing Maven Project -> Navigate to the folder where you unzipped the zip
  • Select the project
• Choose the Spring Boot Application file (search for @SpringBootApplication)
• Right Click on the file and Run as Java Application

Alternatively you can use the Spring Boot Maven plugin like so:

mvnw spring-boot:run

To monitor and manage your application

• Swagger - Documentation & Testing