My First Full Stack Spring Boot / JQuery Application

Part 1 - Creating an Entity

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Generate Project

• Navigate to start.spring.io
• Select the following dependencies:
  • Web Tools
  • Spring Data JPA
  • H2 Database
• Press the Download button
• Navigate to the ~/Downloads directory view the newly downloaded demo.zip file.
• Unzip the demo.zip directory to extract the contents of the newly downloaded file to a folder named demo.
• Navigate to the newly extracted demo folder.
• Execute mvn spring-boot:run from the root directory of demo folder to verify that the application can be built by maven
• Navigate to localhost:8080 from a browser to ensure that the Whitelabel Page is displayed.

Open In IDE

• Open the newly downloaded project in IntelliJ
• Ensure that the project is opened via the pom.xml.
• Ensure that the pom.xml is opened as a project, not as a file.

Create an Entity

• Create a Person Entity.

@Entity
public class Person {
    @Id
    @GeneratedValue
    private Long id;

    private String firstName;
    private String lastName;
    private Date birthDate;

    public Person() {
    }

    public Person(Long id, String firstName, String lastName, Date birthDate) {
        this.id = id;
        this.firstName = firstName;
        this.lastName = lastName;
        this.birthDate = birthDate;
    }

    public Long getId() {
        return id;
    }

    public void setId(Long id) {
        this.id = id;
    }

    public String getFirstName() {
        return firstName;
    }

    public void setFirstName(String firstName) {
        this.firstName = firstName;
    }

    public String getLastName() {
        return lastName;
    }

    public void setLastName(String lastName) {
        this.lastName = lastName;
    }

    public Date getBirthDate() {
        return birthDate;
    }

    public void setBirthDate(Date birthDate) {
        this.birthDate = birthDate;
    }
}

View the Entity

• Modify the /resources/application.properties file by adding the following configurations

server.port=8080
spring.h2.console.enabled=true
spring.h2.console.view=/h2-console
spring.datasource.url=jdbc:h2:mem:testdb

• Run the application
• Navigate to localhost:8080/h2-console to view the data-layer of the application