Forum

Description

Internet forum [in this case about programming language Java] powered by Spring Framework and MySQL. This web application enables inter alia: adding topics and answers, as well as browsing, editing or deleting some of them.

Technologies

• Java:
  • Spring Framework:
    • Spring MVC:
      • application-level on the basis on design pattern: model-view-controller
      • using methods "get" and "post" with parameterising URLs which is typical of REST API
    • Spring Data:
      • using JPQL and ready-made methods from JpaRepository to creating, reading, updating and deleting data
      • implementation of native queries
    • Spring Security:
      • own login form with authentication of users on the basis of database
      • restricting access to some pages for offline users
      • protection against cross-site request forgery
      • encoding passwords
    • Spring Boot:
      • automatic configuration and launching application
  • JPA & Hibernate:
    • specifying relations between entities in database and parameters of columns in tables
  • Java 8 SE:
    • Optionals, LocalDateTime
• HTML:
  • Thymeleaf
  • data validation in login form and registration form
  • semantic elements from HTML5
• CSS:
  • Materialize

Features

• Possibility joining to the Java Forum and adding personal data to database:
• Summary of activity on forum expressed in number of topics or answers and hyperlinks to them:
• Review topics with redirecting to each of them and to each of their authors:
• Browsing a topic with the possibility of adding/deleting answer, and setting it as useful:

Software tools

• IntelliJ IDEA 2017.2.4
• Gradle 3.5.1
• XAMPP [MySQL]

Project's structure

• src:
  • main:
    • java/com/plkpiotr/forum:
      • configuration:
        • AdditionalLoginConfiguration.java
        • SecurityConfiguration.java
      • controllers:
        • AnswersController.java
        • IndexController.java
        • LoginController.java
        • ProfileController.java
        • RegisterController.java
        • TopicController.java
        • TopicsController.java
      • entities:
        • Answer.java
        • Topic.java
        • User.java
      • repositories:
        • AnswerRepository.java
        • TopicRepository.java
        • UserRepository.java
      • ForumApplication.java [main class]
    • resources:
      • templates:
        • layout:
          • offline.html
          • online.html
        • answers.html
        • error.html
        • index.html
        • login.html
        • profile.html
        • register.html
        • topic.html
        • topics.html
      • application.properties
  • test/java/com/plkpiotr/forum
    • ForumApplicationTests.java [TODO]
• build.gradle

Comments

The content of questions and answers on the screenshots comes from Stack Overflow. I was faced with those problems during creating application.

License

MIT