Project Title:

Employee Payroll Management System (A RESTful API for Spring Boot)

1. What is the project?

"Big picture: We’re going to create a simple payroll service that manages the employees of a company. We’ll store employee objects in a (H2 in-memory) database, and access them (via something called JPA). Then we’ll wrap that with something that will allow access over the internet (called the Spring MVC layer) ..."

"Introducing Spring HATEOAS, a Spring project aimed at helping you write hypermedia-driven outputs. To upgrade your service to being RESTful, add this to your build: ... "

-- Building REST services with Spring (Spring Guide)

This is an Employee Payroll Management RESTful API for Spring Boot, which performs CRUD operations on an in-memory database.

An implementation of a SPRING quide: "Building REST services with Spring".

2. Tech Stack:

• Java 17
• Spring MVC
• Spring Boot
• Spring HATEOAS
• Java JPA
• H2 Database.
• JSON
• Postman

3. Installing:

i. Clone the git repo

https://github.com/AAdewunmi/Employee-Payroll-Management-System.git

ii. Open project folder

iii. Explore

4. How To Use

i. Open project in preferred IDE (I'm using SpringToolSuit4)

ii. Run as a Spring Boot App

iii. Test RESTful API end points using Postman for CRUD operations:

• Get All Employees
• Get Employee By ID
• Post Employee
• Put Employee
• Delete Employee

5. Demo

• Get All Employees

• Get Employee By ID

• Post Employee

• Put Employee

• Delete Employee

• Check Employee has been deleted!

6. Contributing:

Pull requests are welcome. For major changes, please open an issue first to discuss what you would like to change at:

Spring Guide Github Repo: https://github.com/spring-guides/tut-rest.

7. Original Creator:

Author: SPRING by VMware Tanzu

Tutorial Name: "Building REST services with Spring"

Spring URL: https://spring.io/guides/tutorials/rest/

Github Project Name: Building REST Services with Spring

Github URL: https://github.com/spring-guides/tut-rest