Restful API Server

Before working on Ionic UI, let’s setup the restful API server first, you can follow “Spring Restful + Hibernate with AngularJS” to setup the restful server.

Or, you can download SpringRestfulExample for Tomcat server and Spring4Restful_v01_schema.sql for MySQL database. Then, you can follow the below procedures:

1. Install JDK from Oracle (using JDK 1.7 for our example), you can download from http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/index.html
2. Setup JAVA_HOME path

a. Right-click on “Computer”, and click on “Properties”.

b. Click on “Change Settings”

c. Click on “Environment Variables”

d. Under “User variables for XXXX”, click on “New” button to create a new user variable

Input “JAVA_HOME” as variable name and C:\{your_java_installed_path}\jdk1.7.0_55 as your variable value. If you are using different version of JDK, please update the path value.

3. Download and Install MySQL (using 5.7 for our example) from http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/mysql/
4. Import Spring4Restful_v01_schema.sql into MySQL
5. Download and install Tomcat (prefer Tomcat 8 or upper) from http://tomcat.apache.org/download-80.cgi
6. Place the SpringRestfulExample folder under C:\{tomcat_installed_path}\webapps\
7. Start the Tomcat server by running C:\{tomcat_installed_path}\bin\bat
8. Tomcat will extract the war file and install
9. Done, you can try this URL: http://localhost:8080/SpringRestfulExample/shop/
10. If you see the below screen:
11. Please stop the Tomcat, and update the connection.username and connection.password of C:\ {tomcat_installed_path}\webapps\SpringRestfulExample\WEB-INF\classes\application.properties . Then, you should be able to see the JSON data when startup the Tomcat again.

Right now, everything is ready. Please see the next blog for Ionic UI examples.