Java EE Spring MVC Social Network

##Description

Hirelance is a demo of social network to connect the world of freelancing with that of employers, developed as University Project. It is based on J2EE Technologies , with Spring MVC, Spring Security, Jsp and Apache Tiles for the Presentation Layer and Business Tier, JPA (EclipseLink) for the Persistence Layer. A User can create an account to the platform with Username and Password. After that he can chose to create a "Freelance" profile , "Employer" profile or both. An Alias name is associated with each profile , that is the name with which other user can see it. A freelance can find a projects to work on, and apply. An employers can post a project and search for a freelance to work with. At the end of a project, freelance and employee leave a feedback each other. They can comunicate together through Messaging System, with facebook style notifications, and the rule is that only the Employer can start the conversation

##How To: If you want to run the web-app on localhost, follow these steps:

• Create Database on MySql:
  • CREATE DATABASE hirelancedb;
  • CREATE USER 'hirelanceuser'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'hirelancepassword';
  • GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON hirelancedb.* TO 'hirelanceuser'@'localhost' WITH GRANT OPTION;
• Clone the project
• $ mvn clean install
• $ mvn cargo:run
• The first time go to: http://localhost:7070/hirelance/init/populate to generate DB tables and populate them with some data.
• Go to the home: http://localhost:7070/hirelance
• Back-End administration credentials:
  • user: admin
  • password: admin

####The Use-Case diagram:

####The Domain Model: