Project - Book Collection

  1. Introduction
  2. Design
  3. Application Setup
  4. Database and JPA
  5. Web and Security configuration
  6. Web pages
  7. Run and test application

Introduction

My Book Collection is a web application that allows users to search their favorite books and add them to their collection, and users can also share their collection.

Demo

What tech stack we used for this project?

  • Java
  • Spring framework
    • Spring boot
    • Spring security
    • Spring Thymeleaf
  • H2 database

What you’ll need?

  • Java 11 (or higher)
  • Git
  • Your favorite Java editor to view/edit source code (optional)

Download and Run application

Open a terminal and clone my book collection application.

git clone https://github.com/kpradeep12/project-my-book-collection.git

Run application in Mac

./mvnw spring-boot:run

Run application in Windows

mvnw spring-boot:run

Project walkthrough

By default, the application starts at 8080 port. You can change the port number by providing an application argument, like below.

mvnw spring-boot:run -Dspring-boot.run.jvmArguments="-Dserver.port=8081"

Once the application is up, then open a browser and hit http://localhost:8080/ned_s  ; this is the public profile of user Ned. Ned can share this URL with anyone to show his book collection, but only Ned can edit his collection.

To edit Ned’s collection, log in as Ned by providing User name as ned_s and password as test

To browse books, click on ‘Search Books’ link on the top menu.

Click on the Add button to add this book to Ned’s collection.

Finally, click on Logout to end Ned’s session.