cleanup and persistence work

.project

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 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
 <projectDescription>
-	<name>user-management</name>
+	<name>user-management-parent</name>
 	<comment></comment>
 	<projects>
 	</projects>

README.md

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 # Resources
 - [REST With Spring] (http://bit.ly/restwithspring)
-- Continuous Integration: [CI on Cloudbees](https://rest-security.ci.cloudbees.com/view/REST-With-Spring/)
+- Continuous Integration: [CI on Cloudbees](https://rest-security.ci.cloudbees.com)
 
 
 # Quick Start
@@ -10,13 +10,27 @@ cd REST-With-Spring
 mvn clean install
 mvn cargo:run -f um-webapp/pom.xml
 ```
+- **next**: start consuming the service like so: [REST API: Consuming Examples with `curl`](https://github.com/eugenp/REST/wiki/REST-API%3A-Consuming-Examples-with-%60curl%60)
+
+
+# Goals
+**REST With Spring** is a proof of concept implementation of a RESTful Service. <br/>
+The project also provides a reference implementation for: 
+- REST Discoverability and HATEOAS <br/> 
+- Basic and Digest Authentication <br/>
+- ETag support
+- support for Multiple Representations (on the same URIs) (JSON, XML) <br/> 
+- a full REST based Query Language for advanced filtering of resources <br/> 
+- Sorting and Pagination in REST <br/>
+- Statelessness for REST with Spring <br/> 
+- full integration testing suites at every layer: unit tests, integration tests for the DAO and Service layers, integration tests against the REST service <br/>
 
 
 # Technology Stack
 The project uses the following technologies: <br/>
 - **web/REST**: [Spring](http://www.springsource.org/) 4.2.x <br/>
-- **marshalling**: [Jackson](https://github.com/FasterXML/jackson-databind) 2.x (for JSON) and the new  [Jackson XML extension](https://github.com/FasterXML/jackson-dataformat-xml) (for XML) <br/>
-- **persistence**: [Spring Data JPA](http://www.springsource.org/spring-data/jpa) and [Hibernate](http://www.hibernate.org/) <br/>
+- **marshalling**: [Jackson](https://github.com/FasterXML/jackson-databind) 2.x (for JSON) and [XStream](http://xstream.codehaus.org/) (for XML) <br/>
+- **persistence**: [Spring Data JPA](http://www.springsource.org/spring-data/jpa) and [Hibernate](http://www.hibernate.org/) 4.1.x <br/>
 - **persistence providers**: H2, MySQL
 - **testing**: [junit](http://www.junit.org/), [hamcrest](http://code.google.com/p/hamcrest/), [mockito](http://code.google.com/p/mockito/), [rest-assured](http://code.google.com/p/rest-assured/) <br/>
 
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 # Eclipse
-- see the [Eclipse wiki page](https://github.com/eugenp/REST-With-Spring/wiki/Eclipse:-Setup-and-Configuration) of this project
+- see the [Eclipse wiki page](https://github.com/eugenp/REST/wiki/Eclipse:-Setup-and-Configuration) of this project