Getting Started with Roo: Rapid Application Development for Java and Spring

by Josh Long, Steve Mayzak

Spring Roo goes a step beyond the Spring Framework by bringing true Rapid Application Development to Java—just as Grails has done with Groovy. This concise introduction shows you how to build applications with Roo, using the framework's shell as an intelligent and timesaving code-completion tool. It's an ideal RAD tool because Roo does much of the tedious code maintenance.

You'll get started by building a simple customer relationship management application, complete with step-by-step instructions and code examples. Learn how to control any part of the application with Roo's opt-in feature, while using this open source framework to automate the rest of the code.

Set up a Spring application and working Maven build to see Roo in actionAddress persistence with JPA and the Neo4j graph database—and learn how Roo supports NoSQL databasesUse Roo’s database reverse-engineering feature to generate a data model from an existing schemaBuild Roo applications with Spring MVC, Spring WebFlow, Google Web Toolkit, Vaadin, and other web frameworksSecure and test your application

Genres: Programming

62 pages, Kindle Edition

First published August 8, 2011

Reviews

[Ivan · Rating 3 out of 5]

It's hard to rate the book properly, as it's not usual one. It is concise and easy to read as if it was a post in the blog - you could get a quick impression about technology advertised. Similarly, it requires some care from the reader's side to exactly reproduce certain aspects of the examples, while the attitude towards a tool is in 'vulnerable' state.

Gotchas:
- Stuff from the books might fail to work for you due to versions difference(1.2 failed, 1.1.2 worked for me)
- Play! framework lives in the highly competitive world :)
- Integration matters