Write a simple contact book web application using servlets and jdbc. You will then understand the underpinnings of the stateless request/response model of the web and direct SQL. Once you've gone though that pain you will have a deep understanding of why certain frameworks like Spring and ORM etc... exist
If you want to do Java web dev I would recommend you to start with servlets and tomcat as servlet container. It'll help you to understand how a client-server communication works and how work most of legacy web apps. Then take a look at Spring MVC. it's a useful abstraction based on servlets (or Netty/Jetty). Finally try Spring Boot which is based on Spring and helps to build you application fast which is great for prototyping.
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/Landing Page/
- big picture (un splash?)
- some deets
- login/register
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/Sign in/
- Just the e-mail, password & whatever (maybe 0auth?)
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/Register/ : same as sign in
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/Members Area/
- should contain all of your contact books
- ability to CRUD contact books
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/Contact Book/
- Able to view 10 random contacts (plus pages to go further?)
- Add a contact to the book (CRUD): multiple things such as FB, gmail, etc. (not just phone number) & pic
- Sort/Search contacts (maybe elastic search or smth?)
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/Contact/ : see individual contact with all formatted details n stuff I suppose + EDIT/REMOVE option
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JS animations + JSP would be interesting? At least when deleting or listing contacts and stuff (such as smooth scroll)
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/ DON’T FORGET CI/CD TRAVIS V JENKINS + KUBE HELM CHART + SKAFFOLD MAYBE (ALTHOUGH IT WILL BE HARDER BECAUSE OF EMBEDDED TOMCAT) /
- TDD, need to look into how to test the persistence API and how to test servlets before I start
- Will use PSQL, need to see how to map data and how to serialize objects in the db
- Session tracking for AUTH?