1. This a sample project for IBM MobileFirst Platform + Spring + Hibernate/JPA + MySQL

1. Installed Java JDK 1.8.x
2. Installed MySQL 8.x.x and create a local database connection.
3. Installed Apache Maven 3.6.x
4. Installed any preferred IDE. Recommended to use Eclipse 2019-03.
5. Installed Apache Lombok 1.x.x in IDE.
6. Git clone and setup https://github.com/yousoff92/spring-hibernate
7. Installed IBM MobileFirst Platform http://mobilefirstplatform.ibmcloud.com/downloads/

Setup spring-hibernate

1. cd to spring-hibernate and execute mvn clean install to generate jar file.
2. Generate the jar file again if we do any changes in the project.

Setup IBM MobileFirst Platform

1. cd to ../mfp-server/usr/servers/mfp
2. Open IBM MFP server.xml and add the following lines :

    <!-- Yousoff: Added configuration for JDBC -->
    <!-- Ref : https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSD28V_9.0.0/com.ibm.websphere.wlp.core.doc/ae/twlp_dep_configuring_ds.html -->
    <!-- Must specify Datasource -->
    <dataSource id="DefaultDataSource" jndiName="jdbc/mysql" type="javax.sql.DataSource">
        <jdbcDriver libraryRef="MySQLLib" javax.sql.DataSource="com.mysql.cj.jdbc.MysqlDataSource"/>
        <properties url="jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/mydb?useSSL=false&amp;allowPublicKeyRetrieval=true" user="root" password="password"/>
    </dataSource>

    <library id="MySQLLib">
        <file name="/home/yousoff/Documents/library/mysql-connector-java-8.0.11.jar"/>
    </library>

3. Modify the JDBC URL and point the MySQL Connector jar file to the correct path.
4. In terminal, execute the run.sh to start local MFP server at http://localhost:9080/mfpconsole

Setup mfp-spring-adapter

1. cd to mfp-spring-adapter project and build adapter by executing mvn clean install
2. Deploy to local MFP by executing mvn adapter:deploy

1. Make sure MySQL Connector version match your local MySQL DB version. Let say your DB is 5.x.x, then change then server.xml to 5.x.x.