developer-test

Assignment

1. Make it possible to add new Heroes through a RESTful API.
2. Replace the In-memory-based repository with a file-based repository(in textual data format like Json or XML, not a SQL database).
3. Make the code thread-safe and robust. For example with error handling etc.
4. Write tests that proves that your code works as expected.

Other

• Your are free to refactor the code as much as you like, as long as you use Spring Framework and Maven.
• Please comment solutions that you feel needs to be more explained. For example; why you solved it in this way, or how it could be solved in a better way.

... and finally

Create a zip file of your project and send it to us.

Setup

Prerequisites: Java 7+, Maven and an Internet connection.

Run and verify

1. Go to the project root
2. Type mvn install
3. Type mvn jetty:run
4. Browse to http://localhost:8080/developer-test/ping using a browser. The response text should be 'Pong' (You can also type: curl -i -H "Accept: application/json" -X GET http://localhost:8080/developer-test/ping)