Midas Core - Financial Transaction System

A Spring Boot application for processing financial transactions with Kafka messaging and database integration.

🚀 Quick Start bash

Clone repository

git clone https://github.com/your-username/forage-midas.git cd forage-midas

Build project

./mvnw clean compile

Run tests

./mvnw test

Run application

./mvnw spring-boot:run 🛠️ Tech Stack Java 17 - Core programming language

Spring Boot 3.2.5 - Application framework

Apache Kafka - Message queue for transactions

H2 Database - In-memory SQL database

Spring Data JPA - Database abstraction layer

Maven - Build and dependency management

📋 Features ✅ Kafka Integration - Asynchronous transaction processing

✅ Transaction Validation - Balance checks and user verification

✅ Database Storage - Persistent transaction records

✅ REST API - HTTP endpoints for system interaction

✅ Comprehensive Testing - Unit and integration tests

🏗️ Architecture text Transaction → Kafka → Validator → Database ↑ ↓ Frontend Balance Updates 🧪 Testing bash

Run all tests

./mvnw test

Run specific task tests

./mvnw test -Dtest=TaskOneTests # Dependencies & setup ./mvnw test -Dtest=TaskTwoTests # Kafka integration
./mvnw test -Dtest=TaskThreeTests # Database integration 📁 Core Components MidasCoreApplication - Main Spring Boot application

DatabaseConduit - Transaction processing logic

TransactionListener - Kafka message consumer

User/TransactionRecord - JPA entities

Repository Interfaces - Data access layer

⚙️ Configuration

Key configuration in application.yml:

Kafka bootstrap servers and consumer groups

H2 database connection

JPA settings for entity management

🎯 Project Purpose

Built as part of the JPMC Forage internship program to demonstrate:

Microservices architecture

Message-driven systems

Database integration

Financial transaction processing.