A simple JPA backend service that loads data from a CSV file and make it accessible through Person entity.

It can be easily upgraded to read/write from a real database instead of the CSV file.

You can modify the provided demo data from Persons.csv located under src/resources.

After installing this project locally, you can reference it by including it as a dependency into the front-end project. Most probably you will need to include JavaEE dependencies as well:

	<dependencies>
		...

		<dependency>
			<groupId>javax</groupId>
			<artifactId>javaee-api</artifactId>
			<version>7.0</version>
			<scope>provided</scope>
		</dependency>

		<dependency>
			<groupId>org.vaadin.stepbystep</groupId>
			<artifactId>person-service</artifactId>
			<version>2.0</version>
		</dependency>

		...
	</dependencies>

• Inject PersonService.
• Call getEntries() to return a list of Person.
• Call delete() or save() to update a given entity.
• Call getFirst() to retrieve the first entity.
• Call getById() to retrieve an entity by its id.

	@Inject
	PersonService service;

	void load() {
		component.bind(service.getEntries());
	}

You can obtain the maven dependency from Vaadin Directory without any downloads or installs.

Platform and IDE independent, you can install this project locally using the following three commands:

	$ git clone [email protected]:amahdy/person-service.git
	$ cd person-service
	$ mvn install

Instructions on how to import using Eclipse are available in the eclipse branch.