Read Me First

This is a sample project to demonstrate how to build a Restful WebService using Spring Boot MVC framework.

Getting Started

Download the project and execute

mvn:spring-boot:run

This will start Tomcat on localhost 8080 port.

In order to change port number, you can modify the application.properties file in resources.

Usage

Open a browser and navigate to:

http://localhost:8080/getPassword

This generates a random password with default length 8.

Other Examples:

http://localhost:8080/getPassword?length=10

Reference Documentation

For further reference, please consider the following sections:

• Official Apache Maven documentation
• Spring Boot Maven Plugin Reference Guide
• Spring Web

Guides

The following guides illustrate how to use some features concretely:

• Building a RESTful Web Service
• Serving Web Content with Spring MVC
• Building REST services with Spring