Mecbox

Mecbox is an open-source application generator used to develop quickly modern web applications using the Spring Framework.

What you’ll need

In order to build the mecbox application, your environment should fulfill the following requirements:

• A favorite text editor or IDE
• JDK 1.8 or later
• Maven 3.0+
• Mysql Server

What you’ll build

You’ll build a template web application that will provide out of the box :

• Authentication & authorization;
• Responsive graphical interface (html, css, js):
  • Tables with enhanced interaction controls (search, export, sorting, etc.);
  • Charts;
• Server side components:
  • CRUD (insert, delete, update);
  • Search filters;

How to build

Download and unzip the source code in your workspace MECBOX_PATH. Before building the application you must create a MySQL database. From the command line go to MySQL installation directory MYSQL_PATH:

cd MYSQL_PATH\bin;
mysql -u db_username -p
mysql> create database mecbox;

Then create the tables needed to run the application, using the script mecbox.sql stored in the MECBOX_PATH/sql folder:

mysql> use mecbox;
mysql> source mecbox.sql

The script will populate the USER/ROLES tables with two users:

Username: admin@mecbox.it
Password: mecbox
Role: ADMIN

Username: guest@mecbox.it
Password: mecbox
Role: GUEST

From your IDE select and open the unzipped maven project. As a first step check the content of the application.properties file, located in the path Other Sources > src/main/resources:

spring.datasource.url = jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/mecbox?useSSL=false
spring.datasource.username = db_username
spring.datasource.password = db_password

Now you can perform your first build of the application. If the build process ends successfully, you are ready to run the application. The application is built using the open source framework Spring Boot, which generates an executable jar (that can be run from the command line). Spring Boot creates a stand-alone Spring based Applications, with an embedded Tomcat, that you can "just run".

java –jar  mecbox-1.0.jar

In the docs folder you will find a complete userguide with useful information that will help you to understand mecbox project.

License

Mecbox is EUPL-licensed