First thing before you can do anything

Setup a new database called 'hw' on your mysql (or other) RDBMS and modify src/main/resources/applicationContext.xml accordingly. Next create the USERS table like so:

CREATE TABLE `USERS` (
  `id` bigint(20) NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
  `dob` date DEFAULT NULL,
  `email` varchar(50) DEFAULT NULL,
  `firstName` varchar(20) DEFAULT NULL,
  `lastName` varchar(20) DEFAULT NULL,
  `phone` varchar(12) DEFAULT NULL,
  PRIMARY KEY (`id`)
);

Testing HW

mvn jetty:run which will run the webapp on http://localhost:8080/hw

Create a user

curl -X POST -H "Content-Type: application/xml" -d '{validUserXmlGoesHere}' http://localhost:8080/hw/api/users

Where you supply some valid user XML like:

<user>
  <firstName>Bill</firstName>
  <lastName>Lumberg</lastName>
  <phone>555-444-4321</phone>
  <dob>1965-05-01</dob>
  <email>blumberg@innitek.com</email>
</user>

Retrieve user info

curl http://localhost:8080/hw/api/users/{id} | xmllint --format -

where {id} is the numeric unique ID of the user in the system, e.g. 2

To debug this application

run debug.sh or..

1. MAVEN_OPTS="-Xdebug -Xnoagent -Djava.compiler=NONE -Xrunjdwp:transport=dt_socket,address=4000,server=y,suspend=y"
2. mvn jetty:run

then attach a remote debugger such as with a remote debugging profile (in Eclipse)

To build and test

This is a typical war maven project, so mvn package and mvn test