Our project is a Spring MVC-based web application designed to manage and display contact information. The primary purpose of this application is to provide a user-friendly interface where users can submit contact details through a form, view a list of submitted contacts, and filter these contacts based on specific criteria.

Explain how to set up and run your project. Include steps for:

1. Cloning the repository.
2. Installing dependencies.
3. Running the application.

Detail the key features of the project and where they can be found in your code.

• Description: Briefly describe how you've implemented this feature.
• Location: src/main/java/com/lambton/project/...

• Description: This feature includes a form where users can input their details. Validation is performed on the server side.
• Location:
  • Form: src/main/resources/templates/contact.html
  • Controller: src/main/java/com/lambton/project/ContactController.java
  • Validation: src/main/java/com/lambton/project/Contact.java

• Description: Details from the form are persisted into a database after passing validation.
• Location: src/main/java/com/lambton/project/ContactRepository.java

• Description: Users can view a list of items entered through the form. The list supports optional filtering.
• Location: src/main/java/com/lambton/project/ContactController.java (method: listContacts)

• Description: An API that returns the number of page hits, which is called asynchronously every 3 seconds.
• Location:
  • API: src/main/java/com/lambton/project/PageHitController.java
  • Frontend implementation: src/main/resources/templates/index.html

• Description: Example of how dependency injection is used in the project.
• Location: src/main/java/com/lambton/project/ContactController.java

• Description: The application uses CSS for styling to ensure an aesthetically pleasing website.
• Location: src/main/resources/static/css/style.css

• Description: Classes in the project are accompanied by unit tests.
• Location: src/test/java/com/lambton/project/...

• Description: This README file contains all the necessary information and locations for each requirement in the project.