Currency Rates App

Table of contents

• General info
• Technologies
• Functionalities
• ToDo
• Setup

General info

This application allows you to follow the current exchange rates.

Technologies

Project is created with:

• Java 17
• Jakarta EE
• Jakarta Servlet
• JSP
• Tomcat 10
• Maven
• MySql
• JDBC
• Lombok
• json.org

Functionalities

• downloading up-to-date exchange rates from http://api.nbp.pl
• currency conversion
• archival currencies
• user registration
• user authorization and authentication
• saving users and "favourite currencies" in MySQL database
• password encryption using SHA-256 algorithm
• admin panel for users management

ToDo

• switch double variables to BigDecimal
• use Hibernate
• rewrite project using Spring framework

Setup

To run this project:

1. create MySQL database using database.sql file
2. overwrite database properties in config.properties and context.xml
3. build .war file with maven

$ mvn clean install

4. Deploy on Tomcat 10 server
5. You can log in using (username: test, password: test) or (username: admin, password: admin)