Building VaultBank Java Banking CLI with Maven

I am excited to share a major milestone in my transition into Java Backend Development! 🚀 Before jumping straight into powerful frameworks, I wanted to deeply understand how enterprise architecture and build tools actually work under the hood. So, I built VaultBank—a fully functional, persistent Banking CLI application written in pure Java. Instead of writing a single script, I structured this project exactly how a real-world enterprise backend is designed. Here are the key technical concepts I implemented: 🔹 Maven Multi-Module Architecture: Designed a Parent POM to manage dependencies for separated core (business logic) and cli (user interface) modules. 🔹 Separation of Concerns: Isolated the strict banking rules and data state from the terminal interface using a dedicated Service Layer. 🔹 Data Serialization & File I/O: Integrated Google Gson to deserialize/serialize Java objects, ensuring account balances and transaction histories survive application restarts via a database.json file. 🔹 Automated Regression Testing: Wrote JUnit 5 tests in an isolated src/test environment to mathematically prove the banking logic is flawless before every build. 🔹 Fat JAR Packaging: Used the Maven Shade Plugin to bundle the application into a standalone, executable JAR file. Taking the time to build this without Spring Boot gave me a profound appreciation for what Maven actually does—from dependency management and the build lifecycle to keeping production code perfectly separated from testing logic. Now that the foundation is rock solid, the next stop is turning this architecture into a REST API with Spring Boot! ☕💻 #Java #BackendDevelopment #Maven #SoftwareEngineering #CareerTransition #JUnit #LearningInPublic

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