Demonstrating the Retro Board

When everything is put together, build and run the Retro Board, which we will be able to access using the http://<host>:<port> URL.

There are several ways to run a Spring Boot application, some of which are:

• Running the Spring Boot application main class using an IDE
• Building a JAR or WAR file using the following Maven command and then running:

$ mvn clean install
$ java -jar target/<package-name>.[jar|war]

• Running using the Spring Boot Maven plugin:

$ mvn clean spring-boot:run

After running, the Retro Board web application will launch the login screen as follows:

This login screen is the default login screen for form logins in Spring Security. A username/password combination created in SecurityConfig can be used to log in to the system. After successful login, the user will be routed to the comments page, which is as follows:

In the preceding screenshot, the header is visible with the title of the web application, the current date and time, and the...