How to use this spring-boot project

• Install packages with mvn package
• Run mvn spring-boot:run for starting the application (or use your IDE)

Application (with the embedded H2 database) is ready to be used ! You can access the url below for testing it :

• Swagger UI : http://localhost:8080/swagger-ui.html
• H2 UI : http://localhost:8080/h2-console

Don't forget to set the JDBC URL value as jdbc:h2:mem:testdb for H2 UI.

Changelog

1. Architecture
   • Packages refactoring
2. Fix bug, improvements
   • Decouple model / entities (mapping added via mapstruct)
   • Send created/updated objects on POST/PUT requests
   • Global exception treatment (Controller advise)
3. Tests
   • Test data script (data.sql)
   • Test coverage report (Jacoco)
   • Unit & integration tests
4. Documentation
   • Comments
   • Developer guide (doc folder)
   • Swagger documentation annotations on operations/models
5. Security
   • Add API Key authentication
6. Performance
   • Adding cache on service function retrieving employees data (spring cache)

My experience in Java

I have 5 years experience in Java and I started to use Spring Boot from 3 years

If you had more time, I would have

• Improve security by changing to OAuth2 authentication with client credential flow
• Implement HATEOAS
• Divide architecture into micro services
• Create docker container running the application
• Set up CI configuration (with GitHub actions)
• Create more search functions (with dynamic requests, JPA specifications...)
• Implement log configuration (levels, rolling...)