Tools and Projects used (see commits for detailed progress):

• ✅ Boot
• ✅ Web Services
• ✅ Data
  • keywords supported for JPA
  • CRUD
  • Pagination
  • Entity Relationships
  • Native SQL Query (@Query, Using Positional and Named parameters, DB vendor dependent!)
  • JPQL (DB vendor independent - Best practice)
• ✅ Hibernate Validation
• ✅ Security
  • Authentication
  • Authorization
  • Roles and Authorities
  • Method and Global level security
• ✅ JWT
  • jjwt
  • jwt.io
• ✅ Project Lombok
• ✅ MySQL
• ✅ Postman http client
• ✅ Run Spring-Boot project from command-line(mvn commands)
• ✅ Extract .war file from spring project and deploy to Tomcat server
• ✅ ModelMapper - Replace BeanUtils shallow mapping with deeper level mapping between objects that can contain Collection fields.
• ✅ HATEOS - response can contain other links related to the current returned resource. Let clients use those resources without manually type them in.
  • extending RepresentationModel<T> - adding links to specific class
  • EntityModel<T> - using the WebMvcLinkBuilder to add addresses with relation to this class
  • CollectionModel<T> - ability to add multiple links into a collection
• ⏳ User email verification and password reset service using AWS-SES
• ✅ Testing
  • Unit and Integration testing using JUnit5
  • Testing web-service endpoints response correctness using REST Assured
• ✅ H2 DB
• ✅ CORS - Enable endpoints to respond to requests from different domains
• ✅ Swagger - generate api documentation using user-friendly GUI
  • SpringFox
  • SwaggerHub - allow share/collaborate endpoints documentation

Next step is to convert current monolithic build into microservices architecture