Spring Roo

By Rohit Ghatolrohitsghatol@gmail.com

What?

Why?

How?

What is Roo?

Version 1.2

No Lock In

High Quality

Rapid App Development

Tool

Spring Roo

Setting Expectations Right?

Java SpringJPA

MavenJSP

GWTFlex

Spring Roo

Runtime Library IDE Plugin Annotatins

Unlike Others Spring Roo is not

What does roo look like?

10 minute Test

Step 1: Create Roo Project

Step 2: Setup Persistence Layer

Step 3: Declare Entities

Step 4: Add Fields

Step 5: Build Project

Step 6: Browse Project

Spring Roo Projects are Maven Project

Step 7: Generate Web App Scaffoldng

Step 8: Deploy

Step 9: Create Selenium Test Cases

Step 10: Test UI

Why Spring Roo?

Shell/Command Based

Has a Context and this is Better than any Wizard

Active Code Generation

Lets add one more field to Employee, and see what happens?

Domain Driven Design

All Source Code is there

No Runtime as we said earlier

Add your own Plugins

Create Organization wide plugins or make them OpenSource

TypicalSecurity Plugin

Typical = ConvensionWhat all of us do most of time

Install Plugin on Roo Shell

osgi start --url http://spring-roo-addon-typical-security.googlecode.com/files/com.xsoftwarelabs.spring.roo.addon.typicalsecurity-0.1.5.BUILD-SNAPSHOT.jar

Run TypicalSecurity• project --topLevelPackage com.testproject2 --projectName

TestProject2

• //Typical Security Addon needs persistence, other wise it doesn't show itself

• persistence setup --provider HIBERNATE --database HYPERSONIC_IN_MEMORY

• Usage

• //Run the TypicalSecurity setup addon in default mode• typicalsecurity setup

What do we get?

• User Role Model classes• Sign up – With Captcha• Activation Email• Forgot Password

How to?

Adding Security

Adding Finders

Adding Custom Controller

Adding Custom Controller

Conclusion

• Use Roo for – Database Modeling Stage– Rapid Prototyping

• Remove Roo if– After prototyping you want a simple Java Project– Recommended keep things for reactive scaffolding

• Build Organization wise/Feature wise Addon– Add Ons are very powerful– Any Project can use it (as long as at the beginning

they are Spring Roo)