A Question on Calculus of Variation

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Find the extremal of the Functional $J[y(x)]=\int_{0}^{1}(2e^{y}-y^{2})dx$ subject to $y(0)=1$ and $y(1)=e$.

Using Euler's equation we get the answer $y=e^{y}$.

My question is how to check the boundary condition? Is this actually a solution to the original problem? In general how to tackle a problem in which the answer obtained through Euler's equation does not contain x?