Microblog

Microblog is a simple microblogging web application written in Java with Spring MVC. This app uses the following frameworks/technologies:

• Spring MVC 4.2.1
• Spring Security 4.0.2
• Spring Data JPA 1.8.2
• PostgreSQL 9.4
• Hibernate Validator 5.2.1
• Thymeleaf 2.1.5
• Twitter Bootstrap 3
• JUnit 4.11
• Mockito 1.10.19

How to build

The following tools are required:

• JDK 1.8 or later
• Apache Maven
• Apache Tomcat or other servlet container

All Spring configuration classes are located in me.molchanoff.microblog.config package. You can change database connection options and access credentials in RootConfig class.

To build this app you have to run this in your console:

mvn package

After the build was successful, you should see a Microblog.war file inside newly created target subdirectory. In order to deploy this app, you have to refer corresponding documentation of your servlet container/application server.

Note: This app uses Spring profiles for database connection:

• default - uses embedded H2 database
• production - uses PostgreSQL database
• test - uses embedded H2 database with test data testdata.sql script (for unit tests)

The active profile is specified in spring.profiles.active property in config.properties file. If no environment variable was specified, default profile is used.