Currency Converter

Currency Converter web tool that uses one of the public currency converter APIs, The application is preconfigured to use Currency Layer and [Open exchange rates] (https://openexchangerates.org).

Application configurations are managed through the property file exchange.properties.

Application is built using the following technologies:

Backend

• Java 8
• Spring (Boot, MVC, Security, Data)
• MongoLab

Frontend

• Node
• AngularJS, RequireJS and JQuery

Build

• Maven
• bower

Testing

• Junit and Spring-test for unit testing.
• Cucumber and selenium for acceptance testing.

Running the application

Prerequisites

1. Java 8
2. Node
3. bower
4. Maven 3

Build and Run

1. First you need to download the front end dependencies using the bower:

    bower install
   

2. Build the source code delivered in /currency-exchange by running:

    mvn clean install 
   

   from the same folder (currency-exchange)

3. To start the application using in-memory database (mongo)

    mvn clean install spring-boot:run -Dspring.profiles.active=test
   

4. To start the application using a cloud based mongo database

    mvn clean install spring-boot:run -Dspring.profiles.active=development
   

5. After that you can access the application using the following URL:

    http://localhost:8080
   

6. To login in the application the following user is pre-registered:

    username/password: test123/Password1