Technical Documentation Backend

Overview

The backend of Jenga is responsible for the business logic and persistance of data. It exposes a simple REST-API for interaction, which can be found here. Built in Java on Quarkus, Jenga is a cloud-native application benefiting from Quarkus's many advanced features.

Jenga also has an AI-assistant. The relevant documentation for that can be found here.

Core Technologies

These are the main dependencies used to build the backend:

• Programming Language: Java 21
• Framework: Quarkus
• API Layer: Jakarta REST
• Persistence: Jakarta Persistence (JPA) using Hibernate
• Security: SmallRye JWT
• Database: PostgreSQL
• Build Tool: Maven

Current Features

• Simple API: Easy to use REST-API, see API-reference here
• Projects: Create projects as basket of tickets, create custom labels to organize tickets
• Tickets: Create tickets with various data fields to describe and manage tickets
• Users: Native registration and login
• Security: Authentication with JWT
• Search: Search endpoint with filter
• Thousands of lines of commented source code (not just TODO and FIXME)

Limitations

For not implemented features and limitations see here.