Employee Management System

A full-stack Employee Management System built using Spring Boot, Spring Security, Thymeleaf, and MySQL. The application provides a secure platform to manage employee records with authentication, file uploads, email notifications, dashboard analytics, REST APIs, and report generation.

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Features

Employee Management

• Add new employees
• Update employee information
• Delete employees
• View employee details
• Employee profile image upload

Dashboard

• Total Employees
• Total Departments
• Average Salary
• New Employees This Month
• Recently Added Employees
• Department Statistics

Search & Pagination

• Search employees by:
  • First Name
  • Last Name
  • Email
  • Department
• Pagination support

Security

• Spring Security Authentication
• Password Encryption using BCrypt
• Secure Login System
• Role-based protected endpoints

Email Integration

• Automatic welcome email when a new employee is added
• SMTP integration using Spring Boot Mail

File Management

• Employee profile image upload
• Local file storage

Report Generation

• Export employee data to Excel (.xlsx)
• Export employee data to PDF

REST API

• Complete RESTful CRUD APIs
• DTO-based architecture
• Validation
• Exception Handling

API Documentation

• Swagger UI integration using SpringDoc OpenAPI

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Tech Stack

Backend

• Java 21
• Spring Boot
• Spring MVC
• Spring Data JPA
• Spring Security
• Hibernate

Frontend

• Thymeleaf
• HTML5
• CSS3
• Bootstrap 5

Database

• MySQL

Libraries

• Spring Boot Mail
• Apache POI (Excel Export)
• OpenPDF
• SpringDoc OpenAPI
• Jakarta Validation

Build Tool

• Maven

Learning Outcomes

This project demonstrates:

• Spring Boot Development
• MVC Architecture
• REST API Design
• Spring Security
• Authentication & Authorization
• DTO Pattern
• Exception Handling
• Validation
• File Upload
• Email Integration
• Report Generation
• Swagger Documentation
• MySQL Database Integration