lodgewebsitemvc

This project was inspired by my parents buying a holiday lodge in Cornwall, UK. They asked me to create a simple website that gave users an overview of the lodge itself and the surrounding area. I decided to use this opportunity to enhance the project and help me learn the Spring framework. The enhancements to the static website are as follows:

1. User accounts (registration/login and password reset)
2. Reviews (add/delete and view reviews)
3. Account management (update fields such as password, name and email)
4. Settings (users can set and update their language preference)

Stack

Back end

As mentioned above the aim of this project was to expose myself to the Spring framework. With this in mind the back end stack is very Spring focused. Please find a list of technologies below:

1. Spring
   • MVC
   • Security
   • Data
   • AMQP
   • Rabbit
   • Mail
2. Logging
   • Logback (Logback Spring Extension)
   • SL4J
3. Persistence
   • Hibernate
   • PostgreSQL
   • Flyway
   • HikariCP
4. Maven
   • Parent POM
   • Three modules (web, core and notification)
   • Frontend Maven Plugin
5. Velocity (for email templates)
6. JSON
   • Json Web Tokens (for email links), jjwt library
   • Jackson
7. Properties
   • jasypt
   • jasypt Spring Boot
8. Testing
   • JUnit
   • Spring Test
   • Mockito
   • JsonPath
   • Spring Rabbit test

Front end

The front end is served via the Thymeleaf templating engine. JQuery is used extensively to make asynchronous calls to the Java backend. Towards the end of the project I made the decision to update to Bower as dependency management was becoming difficult to maintain.

1. Bootstrap
   • Font awesome
   • Vertical tabs
2. JavaScript
   • AJAX
   • JQuery
   • Modernizr
3. Thymeleaf
   • Standard Layout Dialect
   • Spring Data Dialect
   • Spring Security Dialect
4. HTML
   • Local Storage
5. Bower
6. Gulp
7. NPM

Environment

1. Three environments (controlled via Spring profiles)
   • dev, test, prod

Deployment

Currently not deployed.

Server

• TeamCity (using the Maven Nexus Staging Plugin to deploy to Nexus)
• Nexus
• Deployment via shell scripts
• Nginx
• Apache Tomcat running the web module WAR
• Java service for the notification module JAR