We have used Spring Roo in a web project and show how we generated an early prototype and transistioned to early development and then to production code.
When using JUnit in Spring there are several features added that many developers are not aware of.
First, if you are including the Spring Context in your tests, it becomes an Integration Test, no longer a Unit Test.
Welcome to JaValid
JaValid is an open source framework for validating your Java business objects. JaValid is licensed under the Eclipse Public License 1.0. JaValid 1.2 is the latest release.
JaValid is an annotation-based validation framework, which allows you to annotate your Java objects to introduce validation. JaValid can be used in any type of Java application (standalone application, web application etc). The framework currently provides full integration with the Spring Framework, Java Server Faces, Facelets, and any database. The framework can be extended easily, by means of extensions, and also allows you to add your own validation constraints in addition to the ones shipping with the framework.
The framework is documented well (both the source and the general documentation), so check it out. To learn more, have a look on the documentation page.
The source and distributions are hosted on sourceforge, go to the downloads directly here. You may also want to check out the weblog, which contains some useful information, including several examples.
Have fun using JaValid!
The WaveMaker platform consists of two components: WaveMaker Visual Ajax Studio™ for developing rich internet applications and WaveMaker Rapid Deployment Server™ for deploying applications into a standard and secure Java environment.
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.
I have been playing with flex for a couple of weeks now,and i am trying to use flex as the UI and keeping the backend in Java with as usal Spring,Hibernate stack.
So in this series i will create a getting started project(CRUD contact management) using Spring,Hibernate/MySQL,Cairngorm as the UI MVC framework,GraniteDS for remoting and Tomcat as the server . For now i will create an eclipse based project and later move that to maven. The base intention of this project is to setup a prototype with all the above technologies defined and explore all the aspects of GraniteDS features to serve as the POC for other developers if they are willing to try it.
For application development we use spring and hibernate. For rapid application development there are many pitfalls around. Our mission is to provide a framework that handles all default settings and allows us to quickly start with the development tasks our customers are interested in. So the framework tries to support you by:
* Providing a maven based development environment which uses a proven dependency configuration for fast composition of a working base setup.
* Several utilities were needed during application development extending functions from other utility libraries, e.g. Apache commons.
* Providing a module concept for easy setup and extension of a base application
* Providing reusable and extendable components for common tasks such as application setup, user management, security, history and reporting.
* Providing a base UI implementation based on JSF/MyFaces/MyFaces Trinidad
Where to start
For starting have a look at the quick start tutorial. Within this tutorial a small database application is developed using the most important features provided by the framework.