Guest book application provides users to create guest book entries and administration will approve or reject the entries.

• Maven - Dependency Management
• Java 1.8 - Java™ Platform, Standard Edition Development Kit
• Spring Boot - Framework to ease the bootstrapping and development of new Spring Applications
• H2 In Memory - In memory database
• git - Free and Open-Source distributed version control system
• Bootstrap - User interface
• Log4J - Logging API

To run the application follow the below steps.

• 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 project and Run as Spring boot App
• After starting the server. open browser and hit the link http://localhost:9090/h2 to connect to the In memmory database
• Click on connect button and execute the below script to set up the initial tables for the user login(Admin/User).

insert into Guest_User (USER_ID, USER_NAME, ENCRYTED_PASSWORD, ENABLED) values (1, 'admin', '$2a$10$PrI5Gk9L.tSZiW9FXhTS8O8Mz9E97k2FZbFvGFFaSsiTUIl.TCrFu', 1);

insert into Guest_User (USER_ID, USER_NAME, ENCRYTED_PASSWORD, ENABLED) values (2, 'user1', '$2a$10$PrI5Gk9L.tSZiW9FXhTS8O8Mz9E97k2FZbFvGFFaSsiTUIl.TCrFu', 1);

insert into Guest_User (USER_ID, USER_NAME, ENCRYTED_PASSWORD, ENABLED) values (3, 'user2', '$2a$10$PrI5Gk9L.tSZiW9FXhTS8O8Mz9E97k2FZbFvGFFaSsiTUIl.TCrFu', 1);

insert into Guest_role (ROLE_ID, ROLE_NAME) values (1,'ROLE_ADMIN');

insert into Guest_role (ROLE_ID, ROLE_NAME) values (2,'ROLE_USER');

insert into user_role (ID,USER_ID, ROLE_ID) values (1,1, 1);

insert into user_role (ID,USER_ID, ROLE_ID) values (2,2, 2);

insert into user_role (ID,USER_ID, ROLE_ID) values (3,3, 2);

• open new browser tab and hit the url http://localhost:9090. login with below users. -- Admin : admin/123 -- User : user1/123

Alternatively you can use the jar file to run the application and follow above to steps to run the application.

java -jar guestbooktest-0.0.1-SNAPSHOT.jar

## packages

- `models` — to hold our entities;
- `repositories` — to communicate with the database;
- `services` — to hold our business logic;
- `controllers` — to listen to the client;

- `resources/` - Contains all the static resources, templates and property files.
- `resources/css` - contains static resources such as css, js and images.
- `resources/templates` - contains server-side templates which are rendered by Spring.
- `resources/application.properties` - It contains application-wide properties. Spring reads the properties defined in this file to configure your application. You can define server’s default port, server’s context path, database URLs etc, in this file.

- `test/` - contains unit and integration tests

- `pom.xml` - contains all the project dependencies