Prerequisites

1. Java 8 JDK
2. Apache Maven
3. MySQL Database Server
4. Windows 10

Set up

1. Make a database schema in your MySQL database server
2. Navigate to ./src/main/resources/application.properties
3. Set spring.datasource.url to your JDBC connection string without any URL parameters except the database schema name
   1. E.g. "jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/myschema"
   2. DO NOT include a username in your JDBC connection string
4. Set up a database account with the DBA role in your MySQL database
   1. Set spring.datasource.username to the database account username
   2. Set spring.datasource.password to the database account password
5. Set spring.jpa.properties.hibernate.default_schema to the same database schema name as your JDBC URL
6. Run mvn clean install spring-boot:run to...
   1. Install all necessary Maven dependencies
   2. Build and run the project
   3. Set up your database schema with the relevant tables and data

Additional Configuration for application.properties

Property	Description	Values
spring.jpa.properties.hibernate.hbm2ddl.auto	Hibernate database generation type.	none, create, create-drop, validate, update
database-populator.create-fake-data	Whether to populate the database with fake data or not	true, false
database-populator.fake-unapproved-accounts-quantity	The amount of fake unapproved accounts to create; only valid if database-populator.create-fake-data=true	Any int
database-populator.fake-available-resources-quantity	The amount of fake available resources to create; only valid if database-populator.create-fake-data=true	Any int
database-populator.fake-loaned-resources-quantity	The amount of fake loaned resources to create; only valid if database-populator.create-fake-data=true	Any int