Programming Discussion Forum

Fully functional discussion forum backed with Spring MVC, Spring Security and Hibernate.

Getting started

Clone the project

git clone https://github.com/YogenRaii/pdf.git

Import project into any of IDE and deploy in any container (Tomcat would be the easiest) and test endpoint:

http://localhost:8080

Docker

You need to have Docker installed to run the latest master branch.

Build artifact with Maven as:

mvn clean install

Now, create Docker image, and hence container with Docker Compose as:

docker-compose up --build

This creates container for app and mysql, network bridge to connect these to container!

Spring Boot Run

Need to switch to branch spring-boot-embedded-container for this feature!

Go to $PROJECT_DIR/pdf-app directory and run:

mvn clean spring-boot:run

With this, Spring Boot starts embedded container at port 8081. So, service can be reached at:

http://localhost:8080

Vagrant Installation

Need to switch to branch spring-5-hibernate-5 for this feature!

Go to $PROJECT_DIR/vagrant directory and install the plugins as defined in Vagrantfile.

Once vagrant plugins are ready, run script to create artifacts:

./build_pdf.sh

Once, artifact is ready, bring up vagrant box with:

vagrant up pdf

Once vagrant box comes up, you should be able to access the service at:

http://pdf.local:8080/pdf

Testing

User can search the questions and go into the details even without login.

Once registered user logs in, s/he can ask the question and answer the question.

Application supports internationalization with Nepalese and Chinese language.

Logging into the system

As Admin User

username : ironman

password : ironman

As General User,

username : rabi

password : rabi