"Location tracker"

Web app, which stores user locations.

Criteria:

• The web app has an HTML front-end, which is the user interface
• The user's location is retrieved from the HTML5 Geolocation API
• The user's name is retrieved via a HTML form
• In addition to each location and username a timestamp is also sent
• The data will be persisted/stored in the back-end
• The backend service is written in Java

The Web Client/Server Architecture:

• Maven project
• Client is implemented via jQuery and JavaScript and accessable: http://localhost:8080/frontend
• JAX-RS (Java API for RESTful services) is implemented using Jersey, Jackson, and the Grizzly Server
• Data is serialized into JSON (JavaScript Object Notation)
• For storing data MongoDB (a NoSQL database) is choosen
• Access API: http://localhost:8080/users

Run project:

• Clone repository: git clone https://github.com/missserious/simple-service.git
• mvn clean compile
• mvn exec:java