Download and Import into your IDE, Intellij or Eclipse preferably and run. Application would run on port 8081 of your computer. Feel free to change that in the application.properties file if the default does not suit you.
Application contains a simple interface, built using Spring Data Rest Repositories. If your browser supports JSON View(Most recent Mozilla versions do), you could just do searches by clicking on resource links. Else, a search could be carried out by by just searching for an absolute pathname to the resource you want, from the browser search bar.
This priject is basically to show the poew of Spring and all its subfeatures. If you notice, no hand written queries were written for data access, Spring Data does that for you. AMAZING!