How would you build a real database driven application using ZK? This article introduces the "ZkFoodToGo" example application that demonstrates one approach. "Food To Go" is a fictional fast food ordering system described by Chris Richardson in his book POJOs In Action. The book makes extensive use of Spring, JUnit and mock objects to demonstrate three alternative ORM frameworks: Hibernate, JDO and iBatis. It comprises of mock object JUnit tests demonstrating POJO design patterns and ORM best practices. The book does not supply a user interface nor a complete set of application Use Cases. To create a small but complete web application some simple methods were added to the persistence code to support the screens. ZkFoodToGo uses a POJO domain model, event driven MVC, Spring (IoV pattern), a POJO Facade (with an AOP transaction manager) and Hibernate. The application architecture is well documented both on the ZK wiki and within the book
Impala allows you to divide a large Spring-based application into a hierarchy of modules. These modules can be dynamically added, updated or removed.
Because Impala-based applications are genuinely modular, they are much easier to maintain than vanilla Spring applications.
Impala radically boosts productivity of Spring application development. This is enabled by the dynamic module loading capability, the seamless integration with Eclipse, and the efficient mechanisms for running Spring integration tests, both individually and within suites. When writing applications you only rarely need to restart your JVM, allowing your application changes to be reflected almost instantly. No long restart waits required!
Impala also features a build system, based on ANT, and dependency management capabilities, which you can optionally use.
For up to date news on development of Impala, see the project blog.
Impala is developed under the Apache Licence, Version 2.
Pax Construct provides a Swiss Army® knife for OSGi that helps you rapidly create, build, manage and deploy many types of OSGi bundles. The core functionality is provided by a flexible Maven2 plugin that enhances and streamlines the Maven build process for OSGi, along with intelligent archetypes that adapt according to your needs.
Unix and Windows scripts are available to further reduce the need to remember (and type) long command strings. These scripts come with basic help text and can bootstrap themselves from an empty system.
You can use Pax Construct to create a simple first bundle in less than a minute, all the way up to managing a Spring Dynamic Modules for OSGiTM system.
Maven Archetypes for Web Applications
This page contains maven archetypes to help you quickly and easily get started on a web project that uses the jetty plugin. Each archetype allows you to generate a template for your project based on the included sample web application. (This supposes that maven 2.x is already installed in your system)