Standard Web Application Project Skeleton

Develop web application with Spring Web MVC, Spring Security, JPA/Hibernate + MySQL, Thymeleaf, Bootstrap, Gradle

Just clone this project from github and start developing your application functionality without wasting time on writing configurations and library setup if you gonna use following technology stack:

Spring 4.0.5.RELEASE
Spring Security 3.2.4.RELEASE
Servlet 3.0
Thymeleaf 2.1.3
JPA/Hibernate 4.3.5
Bootstrap 3.3.0
Gradle 2.1
Joda Time 2.4
Tomcat 7.0.54 (Embedded)
Slf4j/Log4j 1.7.5
Junit 4.11
spring-test 4.0.5.RELEASE (Spring MVC Test Framework)
Mockito 1.9.5

Following things has been configured:

Spring Security's standard User and Role based authentication system
Transaction support in Service/Dao layer
Database connection pooling with enterprise-ready c3p0 library
Bean Validation to validate model objects
Internationalization(i18n) with MessageSource
Templating framework (like Apache Tiles) to work with thymeleaf (Thymeleaf Layout Dialect)
Efficiently serving static contents like image/css/js
Prevent browsers from caching dynamic contents

Project Done so far: A standard web application with authentication (login/logout) system and User management (create/role assignment) system has been implemented.

Quick start

First clone this project from github and navigate there from your command line/terminal.

If you have gradle already installed, just run gradle build then you will find a war file in your projects /build/libs/ folder. Deploy it in your favorite container e.g. tomcat.

If you don't have gradle installed, well, there is a awesome news for you! You don't need to download/install gradle to build this project! Here, gradle wrapper is used to make your life easier ;) All you have to do to run script, e.g. if you want to build this project, just execute following command from your terminal

./gradlew build (from Unix)
gradlew.bat build (from Windows)

This script will automatically determine your gradle installation or download & install gradle if required & then execute the gradle task, e.g. build war file for above command. To see the list of tasks available, use ./gradlew tasks or gradlew.bat tasks

Database Connection

You need to create a database named "webapp" in your local MySQL database to work with this application. Change corresponding user credential to access database in persistence-mysql.properties.
Note: There is a import.sql file in classpath, which execute and insert a user 'admin' with password '123456' and proper roles when hibernate.hbm2ddl.auto property is set to create-drop in applicationContext-jpa.xml.

Quick development -> Direct deploy app on embedded tomcat

Well, building project and deploying manually in app container sometimes become pain as these are repetitive work. To make your life easier, here embedded tomcat container has been integrated. Just type gradle tomcatRunWar from your command line and your project will build and run automatically on a tomcat container within a minute. You just have to go http://localhost:8080/ from your browser to see it running. Cool...right? ;)

Deploy in local Tomcat with JRebel Support

Install Tomcat 7 at /usr/local/tomcat7
Copy the script file from config/catalina-jrebel.sh in your /usr/local/tomcat7/bin directory
Make sure, you installed jrebel at /usr/local/JRebel directory
Run gradle deployWar in your source code which will copy the war file to tomcat's webapps folder
From tomcat7/bin, start tomcat server by ./catalina-jrebel.sh run
Access application by browsing: http://localhost:8080/webapp/