I just discovered ROO. I tried it. But I had some problems running it under fedora with java 1.6 and maven 2.0.8. It seems that it need maven 2.0.9.
The idea behind roo is to have a command line based system to develop. It is somewhat similar to Ruby on Rails. You issue commands and create and edit the entities that way.
I give here an example of script:
project --topLevelPackage org.myexample
persistence setup --provider HIBERNATE --database HYPERSONIC_PERSISTENT
database properties list
database properties set --key database.url --value jdbc:hsqldb:${user.home}/tmp/datasources/my-example
database properties list
This first part of the script creates a project pom.xml (for maven) and sets the necessary properties for working with hibernate using an in memory database.
entity --class ~.domain.MyExample
field string code --notNull --sizeMin 32 --sizeMax 32
field string firstName --sizeMax 65
field string lastName --sizeMax 65
field string email --sizeMax 65
field number age --type java.lang.Integer
field date confirmed --type java.util.Date
This second party from the script creates an entity: MyExample.
It also creates a number of fields: code, firstName, lastName, email.
The next part of the script takes care of creating controllers and tests.
The line:
controller scaffold ~.web.MyExampleController
creates a controller for CRUD operations.
It also performs the tests to make sure it works correctly.
Finally, it sets up the logging framework as well as the security framework.
test integration
controller scaffold ~.web.MyExampleController
selenium test --controller ~.web.MyExampleController
perform test
// (OPTION: quit, mvn tomcat:run, localhost:8080/myexample, mvn selenium:selenese)
logging setup --level DEBUG --package WEB
security setup
The next section creates a new controller class called:
org.myexample.web.My2ndExampleController. It lists the finders
and adds the finder to the class.
controller class --class ~.web.My2ndExampleController
finder list --class ~.domain.MyExample --filter code,equ
finder add --finderName findMyExamplesByCodeEquals
perform eclipse
At the end the perform eclipse sets the system for using the system under eclipse.
