Email Verification After Registration Example with Spring Boot, MySQL, and Amazon SES

This tutorial walks you through the steps of creating an Email Verification web application Example with Spring Boot, MySQL, and Amazon AWS SES

What you'll build

• Email Verification Form

• Send verification email through Amazon SES

• Verify email service

What you'll need

• Docker CE
• Amazon SES account
• SMTP Credentials of your Amazon SES account
• Verified From email and To email on SES console

Stack

• Docker
• Spring Boot
• Java Mail API
• Spring Data JPA
• MySQL
• NGINX
• Maven

Init project structure

You can create and init a new Spring Boot project by using Spring CLI or Spring Initializr. Learn more about using these tools here

The final project structure as below

├── src
│   └── main
│       ├── java
│       │   └── com
│       │       └── hellokoding
│       │           └── account
│       │               ├── model
│       │               │   ├── MailProperties.java
│       │               │   ├── User.java
│       │               │   ├── VerificationForm.java
│       │               │   └── VerificationToken.java
│       │               ├── repository
│       │               │   ├── UserRepository.java
│       │               │   └── VerificationTokenRepository.java
│       │               ├── service
│       │               │   ├── SendingMailService.java
│       │               │   └── VerificationTokenService.java
│       │               ├── web
│       │               │   └── AccountController.java
│       │               └── WebApplication.java
│       └── resources
│           ├── static
│           │   ├── css
│           │   │   └── main.css
│           │   └── js
│           │       └── main.js
│           ├── templates
│           │   ├── email-verification.ftl
│           │   └── verification-form.ftl
│           └── application.properties
├── Dockerfile
├── docker-compose.yaml
└── pom.xml

Application dependencies

Create JPA Entities

Create JPA Repositories

Create Services

Create Controllers

Create FreeMarker View template

Application Configuration

Run with Docker

Prepare Dockerfile for Java/Spring Boot application and docker-compose.yml for MySQL Server

Type the below command at the project root directory, make sure your local Docker is running

docker-compose up

Run with JDK/OpenJDK, Maven and MySQL Server local

• On application.properties, update data source user name + password to your local configs, update data source url hk-mysql to localhost

• Then type this command at the project root directory mvn clean spring-boot:run

Test

Open your browser and access to http://localhost:8080

Source code

https://github.com/hellokoding/hellokoding-courses/tree/master/springboot-examples/springboot-email-verification-mysql