Contacts

👥 Simple web application to organize contacts (using Java Servlets and JSP technologies).

Installation

All you need to do is follow the next steps:

1. You need to take the compiled code and package it with command mvn package.
2. Create database schema using 01-create-user-and-schema.sql script.
3. Deploy the WAR to Apache Tomcat web server.
4. (optional) You can also add some data to database using 02-data.sql script.

Application settings

Storing files

You can specify the path for storing files in \src\main\resources\contactapp.properties. By default it is:

users.photo = D:/uploadedFiles/users_photo
users.attachments = D:/uploadedFiles/attachments

Email settings

Email setting is specified in \src\main\resources\mailServer.properties. By default it is:

mail.send.from = kach.itechart@gmail.com
mail.send.password = itechart
mail.admin.address = kach.itechart@gmail.com
mail.smtp.host = smtp.gmail.com

mail.smtp.port = 587
mail.smtp.auth = true
mail.smtp.starttls.enable = true

Logging configiguration

Logging configuration is specified in file \src\main\resources\log4j2.xml. By default it writes to the File named dk-contact-logs/contactapp.log, which will be located in root folder of Apache Tomcat web server.

<Configuration status="warn" name="ContactApp" packages="">
    <Appenders>
        <File name="FileAppender" fileName="dk-contact-logs/contactapp.log" append="false">
            <PatternLayout>
                <Pattern>%d [%p] %c{1}.%M %m%n</Pattern>
            </PatternLayout>
        </File>
    </Appenders>
    <Loggers>
        <Root level="debug">
            <AppenderRef ref="FileAppender"/>
        </Root>
    </Loggers>
</Configuration>