WebappsProject

This project is developed for Web Applications and Services module, University of Sussex (2019).

The project configurations relies on Payara(Glassfish), some specific configurations are needed to be made in order to pull and run this project successfully.

Configurations:

1.) Create a realm:

Please follow the steps below to create a realm to be used in project:

Go to payara admin console
Select: Configurations -> server-config -> Security -> Realms
Create a new Realm with the following settings and save:

Name: WebappsRealm
Class Name: com.sun.enterprise...jdbc.JDBCRealm
JAAS Context: jdbcRealm
JNDI: jdbc/webappsRealm
User Table: SYSTEMUSER
User Name Column: USERNAME
Password Column: USERPASSWORD
Group Table: SYSTEMUSERGROUP
Group Name Column: GROUPNAME
Digest Algorithm: SHA-256
Encoding: Hex
Charset: UTF-8

2.) Create a database named WebappsDB:

Persistence settings are already made in the project.

3.) Create JDBC Pool and Data Source:

JDBC Pool Creation:

Go to payara admin console
Select Resources -> JDBC -> JDBC Connection Pools
Create new JDBC Connection Pool with the following settings:
serverName: localhost portNumber: 1527 DatabaseName: WebappsDB User: APP Password: APP

JDBC Data Source Creation:

Go to payara admin console
Select Resources -> JDBC -> JDBC Resources
Create new JDBC Data Source with name: jdbc/WebappsDB and select the pool created before.

REST API

Project provides three different services for projects, students and supervisors.

Main path of the api "/resources", project path: "/project", student path: "student", supervisor path: "/supervisor"

Example api calls are given below:

Projects api:
Get all projects: http://localhost:10000/webapps2019/resources/project/all
Get projects owned by a supervisor whom id=100: http://localhost:10000/webapps2019/resources/project/100

Supervisor api:
Get all supervisors: http://localhost:10000/webapps2019/resources/supervisor/all
Get supervisor of a student whom id=100: http://localhost:10000/webapps2019/resources/supervisor/100