A Java/Spring template project ready to be deployed to Heroku

Built on Back-end frameworks including:

• Spring MVC (3.2.4.RELEASE)
• Hibernate (4.2.5.Final)
• PostgreSQL
• Maven
• Jetty (6.1.25)

Front-end frameworks including:

• Twitter Bootstrap (3.0.0) and jQuery (1.10.2)
• Backbone.js (1.0.0) and Underscore.js (1.5.2)

... and soon:

• Require.js
• Mustache.js

Please see the current development status of the project here: https://trello.com/b/Mo2khGgC/baselayout

You can find the API documentation here: http://docs.parallelbrainsbaselayout.apiary.io/ A mock API operates at http://parallelbrainsbaselayout.apiary.io/

Contributions are much appreciated! If you want to implement a new feature, please create a new branch off master called feature/your-feature-name and submit a pull request to master when your implementation is done.

Setting up locally

• Clone the project

git clone https://github.com/ParallelBrains/Spring-Hibernate-PostgreSQL-Maven-Jetty.git

• Download and install PostgreSQL

• Download a client to connect to your local PostgreSQL server. A good one is http://www.pgadmin.org/

• Create a database called "base"

• Add DATABASE_URL as an environment variable. (If for some reason it doesn't work, try hardcoding it on root-context.xml)

export DATABASE_URL=postgres://USERNAME:PASSWORD@localhost:5432/base

• Go to project directory, run

mvn jetty:run

• Go to http://localhost:8080/

Deploying the build to Heroku

• Create a Heroku account and download toolbelt

• Create an instance on Heroku

heroku create

• Push the code on Heroku

git push heroku master

• Open the app

heroku open

Thanks

To Nicola Tassini for https://github.com/nicolatassini/Heroku-J2EE-Spring-MVC---Hibernate---PostgreSQL----Maven---Jetty which this project is built upon.

Useful links

• https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/getting-started-with-spring-mvc-hibernate