The original source was from a tutorial which I modified significantly to meet my specific requirements. The original git is the following: https://github.com/spring-guides/tut-react-and-spring-data-rest/tree/master
to run local ./mvnw spring-boot:run
the access web site by
to run behind the scenes, locally nohup ./mvnw spring-boot:run &
clean package mvn clean
build package mvn build
Prepare package (this builds the jar file to be deployed to a web server or to cloud foundry) mvn package
Deploy to bluemix - this command is required because the default buildpack is Liberty which does provide web capabilities, but does not provide the auto connection to the data source without adding the data source name to the code.
bluemix app push WatsonNLUJD -p target/watsonnluweb-0.0.1-SNAPSHOT.jar -b java_buildpack
to deploy to Pivotal Cloud Foundry
cf push WatsonNLUJD -p target/watsonnluweb-0.0.1-SNAPSHOT.jar