Project developed for the final exam of the course named Information Technology for the Web (Tecnologie Informatiche per il Web) held by Professor Piero Fraternali at Politecnico di Milano.
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This project has been developed as final assignment for the Information Technology for the Web course held by Professor Piero Fraternali at Politecnico di Milano.

The objective of this project was to build a web application using Java servlets and exploting server-side rendering using Thymeleaf.

The application is a simple collection of images grouped in albums. The user is able to select one album and to browse through the list of images in order to see a full-size version and a description and, if desired, leave a comment.

The system is based on a simple MySQL database that only stores the path in which retrieve the images in the web server.

Another version of the same project has been developed as Rich Internet Application and can be found at this link.

• Java
• Thymeleaf
• MySQL

To get a local copy up and running follow these simple steps.

This is a simple guide, provided by Professor Piero Fraternali, to prepare the environment in which the application will run.

1. Clone the repo

   git clone https://github.com/lorenzofratus/ImageGallery.git

2. Create a new scheme named db_image_gallery into MySQLWorkbench

3. Dump the file ImageGallery.sql into the newly created scheme to populate it

4. Import the project in Eclipse

   • Go to File > Open Projects from File Systems...
   • Click on the button Directory... and select the main folder of the repo
   • Click on the button Finish

5. Link the database to the project

   • Navigate the project tree in WebContent > WEB-INF
   • Open web.xml
   • Search the following terms and replace them with the correct parameters (from MySQLWorkbench): DB_PORT, DB_USER, DB_PASSWORD

6. Run the project

   • Right click on the project name in the Eclipse tree
   • Select Run As > 1 Run on Server
   • Click on the button Finish

7. The application can by found at the address localhost:8080/ImageGallery

Distributed under the MIT License. See LICENSE for more information.