A Spring boot Web based Application that allows users to view the latest documents and text uploaded by the admin or manager. Previous uploads are stored in MySql Database.

• Spring Boot - Spring based production ready project initializer for Stand alone Applications
• Spring MVC (Model View Controller) - HTTP oriented MVC framework
• HTML CSS and JS for the basic front end
• MySql for database

1. Clone the repository

git clone https://github.com/tundeOlagunju/springBootApp.git

2. Configure MySQL database

Create a MySQL database named mysql, and change the username and password in src/main/resources/application.properties as per user's MySQL installation -

spring.datasource.username= <YOUR MYSQL USERNAME>
spring.datasource.password= <YOUR MYSQL PASSWORD>

3. Run the app using maven

cd spring-boot-file-upload-download-rest-api-example
mvn spring-boot:run

The application can be accessed at http://localhost:8080.

The application can also be packaged in the form of a jar and then run the jar file like so -

mvn clean package
java -jar target/file-demo-0.0.1-SNAPSHOT.jar