diff --git a/.classpath b/.classpath
index d9ea637..3649390 100644
--- a/.classpath
+++ b/.classpath
@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@
 			<attribute name="maven.pomderived" value="true"/>
 		</attributes>
 	</classpathentry>
+	<classpathentry kind="src" path="src/main/resources"/>
 	<classpathentry kind="con" path="org.eclipse.jdt.launching.JRE_CONTAINER/org.eclipse.jdt.internal.debug.ui.launcher.StandardVMType/JavaSE-1.8">
 		<attributes>
 			<attribute name="maven.pomderived" value="true"/>
diff --git a/src/main/resources/application.properties b/src/main/resources/application.properties
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..03ec22f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/main/resources/application.properties
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+springfox.documentation.swagger.v2.path=/api-docs
+server.contextPath=
+server.port=8080
+spring.jackson.date-format=uk.org.iay.incommon.validator.RFC3339DateFormat
+spring.jackson.serialization.WRITE_DATES_AS_TIMESTAMPS=false
diff --git a/swagger/.swagger-codegen-ignore b/swagger/.swagger-codegen-ignore
index 1e39525..eb01be8 100644
--- a/swagger/.swagger-codegen-ignore
+++ b/swagger/.swagger-codegen-ignore
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@
 #
 pom.xml
 README.md
+**/application.properties
 
 #
 # Don't generate dummy controllers once we have implemented them.