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.

##Watch step by step on how to use this backend in a Vaadin project

You can optain the maven dependecy from Vaain Directoy without any downloads or installs.

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

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

Or alternatively:

This project is easy to import into Eclipse from the eclipse-project branch. Here are the direct steps to get started:

Step 1) From Eclipse, open File, Import

Step 2) Select under Git, Projects from Git

Step 3) Select Clone URI

Step 4) Fill the URI with the repository's link

Step 5) Keep eclipse-project branch selected and unselect all other branches

Step 6) Specify a directory for the cloned copy of this project

Step 7) Select Import existing Eclipse projects

Step 8) Eclipse project will be detected and ready to be imported

Step 9) You will see the project files and Java classes

Step 10) Right click on the project, select Run As, Maven install

Step 11) You should get a BUILD SUCCESS in the Console, now the project is ready to be used locally

After installing this project locally, you can easily reference it by including it as a dependecy into the front-end project. Most porbably 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>1.1</version>
		</dependency>
		
		...
	</dependencies>

• Inject PersonService.
• Call loadData() to load the data from the CSV file.
• Call getEntries() to return a list of Person.
• Call delete() or save() to update a given entity.

	@Inject
	PersonService service;

	@PostConstruct
	void load() {
		service.loadData();

		container.bind(service.getEntries());
	}