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+Bayer Ubiquitous Rating Platform - example application
+======================================================
+
 This is the Bayer Ubiquitous Rating Platform (BURP), where users can share short
 ratings of the different canteen dishes with co-workers.
 
-This project illustrates the basic structure of a RESTful backend in conjunction
-with a single page application based on Spring Boot, AngularJS and Bootstrap.
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+The application is a simple twitter clone that illustrates the basic structure
+of a RESTful backend in conjunction with a single page application based on
+Spring Boot, AngularJS and Bootstrap.
+
+Once started, the application is running at http://localhost:8081/ (configured
+via /src/main/resources/application.properties)
+
+The database initialization is done with /src/main/resources/data-h2.sql
+
+
+Login
+-----
+
+User: Adam
+Password: test
+
+
+CRUD Operations
+---------------
+
+GET
+
+    curl -i http://localhost:8081/
+    curl -i http://localhost:8081/users
+    
+    curl -i http://localhost:8081/burps
+    curl -i http://localhost:8081/burps/1
+    curl -i http://localhost:8081/burps/1/tags
+
+POST
+
+    curl -i -X POST -H "Content-Type:application/json" -d '{"text":"I actually liked the dish on the #right","timestamp":"2015-11-18T16:48:11.21+0000","user":"http://localhost:8081/users/2","tags":["http://localhost:8080/tags/2"]}' http://localhost:8080/burps
+    
+    Please note, that you need to escape quotation marks when using curl on Windows:
+    [Windows] curl -i -X POST -H "Content-Type:application/json" -d "{\"text\":\"I actually liked the dish on the #right\",\"timestamp\":\"2015-11-18T16:48:11.21+0000\",\"user\":\"http://localhost:8080/users/2\",\"tags\":[\"http://localhost:8080/tags/2\"]}" http://localhost:8080/burps
+    
+
+PUT/PATCH
+
+    curl -i -X PUT -H "Content-Type:application/json" -d '{"text":"I actually liked the dish on the #left","timestamp":"2015-11-18T16:48:11.21+0000","user":"http://localhost:8081/users/2","tags":["http://localhost:8080/tags/1"]}' http://localhost:8080/burps/7
+  
+DELETE
+
+    curl -i -X DELETE http://localhost:8081/burps/7
+    curl -i http://localhost:8081/burps/7
+
+
+Steps
+-----
+
+You can follow the steps of creating the application by comparing the commits 
+against each other.
+
+* BURP pt. 1 - REST API
+
+* BURP pt. 2 - Security
+
+* BURP pt. 3a - AngularJS basic code
+  (only for comparison, the following commit is needed to run the project)
+
+* BURP pt. 3b - AngularJS resources
+
+* BURP pt. 4 - AngularJS POST and @RepositoryEventHandler
+
+* BURP pt. 5a - Bootstrap code
+  (only for comparison, the following commit is needed to run the project)
+
+* BURP pt. 5b - Bootstrap resources