readme.md

Spring PetClinic Sample Application

What does it look like?

-spring-petclinic has been deployed here on cloudfoundry: http://demo-spring-petclinic.cfapps.io/

Understanding the Spring Petclinic application with a few diagrams

See the presentation here

Running petclinic locally

	git clone https://github.com/SpringSource/spring-petclinic.git
	mvn tomcat7:run

You can then access petclinic here: http://localhost:9966/petclinic/

In case you find a bug/suggested improvement for Spring Petclinic

Our issue tracker is available here: https://github.com/SpringSource/spring-petclinic/issues

Working with Petclinic in Eclipse/STS

prerequisites

The following items should be installed in your system:

• Maven 3 (http://www.sonatype.com/books/mvnref-book/reference/installation.html)
• git command line tool (https://help.github.com/articles/set-up-git)
• Eclipse with the m2e plugin (m2e is installed by default when using the STS (http://www.springsource.org/sts) distribution of Eclipse)

Note: when m2e is available, there is an m2 icon in Help -> About dialog. If m2e is not there, just follow the install process here: http://eclipse.org/m2e/download/

Steps:

1. In the command line

git clone https://github.com/SpringSource/spring-petclinic.git

2. Inside Eclipse

File -> Import -> Maven -> Existing Maven project