This is a simple contacts app developed using Spring MVC, Maven and Hibernate with Java.

These instructions will get you a copy of the project up and running on your local machine for development and testing purposes.

Tomcat 9
MySQL 5

Under src\main\resources\application.properties set up your MySQL settings.

#Database related properties
database.driver=com.mysql.jdbc.Driver
database.url=jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/testDB
database.user=root
database.password=pass

For testing purposes hbm2ddl.auto is set to create-drop, which means after you close the live session, all of the data will be erased. You can also change this in properties file.

hibernate.hbm2ddl.auto=create-drop

After you're done setting it up just run it through your IDE with Tomcat and navigate to Tomcat homepage. http://localhost:8080

• Spring MVC - The web framework used
• Maven - Dependency Management
• Hibernate - Used to generate persistent data

As my IDE I have used IntelliJ IDEA as it seemed to have the most features and easy-to-use interface. Maven made dependency management really easy. In general Spring made it really easy to build the system. I was also able to use .jsp files with MVC.