README.md

"Department" application

Description of the project

This project allows to deal with a list of Departments and Employees inside this Departments via web-browser.

How to build and deploy the project

1. Clone the project from repository.
2. Go to the root directory of the project ("/department-app/").
3. Make sure you have Maven installed. In command line write and run: mvn clean install
4. If build was successful, you will get two war-files:
   • /department-app/rest/target/department-rest.war
   • /department-app/web-app/target/department-web.war
5. Copy this two war-files to your Tomcat "webapps" directory. Start Tomcat if it's not yet.

Running web-application

1. We presume you deployed the project at localhost. To test the REST API of the application, write in your browser:
   • http://localhost:8080/department-rest/departments/all
   • http://localhost:8080/department-rest/employees/all
     -- If everything is OK, you will get some JSON entities in both cases.
2. To start web-application, write in your browser:
   • http://localhost:8080/department-web/departments/all
3. That's it!

Log files

Log file can be found in Tomcat "log" directory under the name:

• department_rest_log_file.log - for the REST layer