tags	projects
resource-oriented architecture	spring-framework

This solution provides a template "Hello World" web application with Spring MVC and friends.

The "Hello World"-iness goes well beyond what the web application does, rather the template prescribes a way of working and includes matters such as exposing basic production-ready monitoring features.

The cited friends include:

• HTML5

• Thymeleaf as HTML5 templating engine

• Bootstrap v3.3.5

• Spring MVC v4.2.0

• Spring Security v4.2.0

Key template aspects include:

• An over-arching aspiration to adhere to Resource-Oriented Architecture (ROCA) recommendations.

• A progressive enhancement validation strategy realized by server-side first validation using JSR 303 annotations on form-backing objects - this means if we are constrained for time we will have no client-side validation which is treated as a convenience.

• Asynchronous client-side validation is enabled by optionally exposing, for each form, a JSON based validation end-point.

• Bootstrap’s responsive, mobile first fluid grid system respected to make sure all devices are supported (i.e. extra small, small, medium and large devices).

• Intentional avoidance of JSP, JSTL and the Spring tag libraries as per Spring MVC View Layer: Thymeleaf vs JSP.

• Internationalization: support for English (for which ASCII would suffice) and at least one language that uses a character set with "funny" characters. This is a character encoding lesson reminder.

Getting up and running:

• mvn spring-boot:run or run the Application class

• to log in use the credentials: user and password