The reader should possess the following:

• Basic knowledge of using a terminal, such as PowerShell
• Basic knowledge of Java and JavaScript programming
• Basic knowledge of SQL databases
• Basic knowledge of HTML and CSS

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@SpringBootApplication
public class CardatabaseApplication {
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  public static void main(String[] args) {
    SpringApplication.run(CardatabaseApplication.class, args);
    logger.info("Hello Spring Boot");
  }
}

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    alert('Button pressed');
  }

Any command-line input or output is written as follows:

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