HelloWorld

The project is the first of many in our new open-source drive.

Installation and Getting Started

The project is a standard HelloWorld example using spring-boot.

Here is a quick view of our complete code:

package ba.oss;

import org.slf4j.Logger;
import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;
import org.springframework.boot.CommandLineRunner;
import org.springframework.boot.SpringApplication;
import org.springframework.boot.autoconfigure.SpringBootApplication;

@SpringBootApplication
public class HelloworldApplication implements CommandLineRunner{

    private static final Logger log = LoggerFactory.getLogger(HelloworldApplication.class);

    @Override
    public void run(String... strings) throws Exception {
        log.info("Barclays Africa: Hello to the open source world");
    }

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        SpringApplication.run(HelloworldApplication.class, args);
    }
}

Getting help & reporting issues

Our project uses GitHub’s integrated issue tracking system to record bugs and feature requests. If you want to raise an issue, please follow the recommendations below:

Report bugs with our app at github.com/BarclaysAfrica/helloworld/issues.

Running the project

Ensure you have Java8 JDK installed and added to environment path. You do not require Maven to be installed if you use the mvnw scripts to run the project as a local instance of Maven will be downloaded automatically. However, if you intend building the project you will require Maven v3.0.5 or above.

To run the project:

   $ git clone https://github.com/BarclaysAfrica/helloworld
   $ cd helloworld
$ ./mvnw # Windows users use mvnw.cmd

License

This project is released under the Apache 2.0 license.