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Spring Roo at Skills Matter

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I've just got back from a fantastic presentation on Spring Roo from Jan Machacek of Cake Solutions. It was hosted at Skills Matter by Barry Cranford of the London Java Community. I came away totally understanding what Spring Roo is for.

In a few words, it's code a generator that gives you a boost when creating Java and Spring MVC based web applications. It uses a lot of Aspect Orientated Programming (AOP) to take away a lot of the boiler plate code, such getters and setter on beans and persistence, that are required for CRUD web applications. If, after the application is completed, you want to stop using Sprig Roo, you can. If you want to keep using it to generate more of the application, you can and it examines the code every time you build to see if it can generate more helpers from your changes. It's not a silver bullet or a golden hammer thought, it's another tool in a Java web application developers arsenal.

One draw back for me is that Spring Roo requires Maven (quite possibly one of the roots of all evil) and I don't yet know know enough Grails to know if Spring Roo provides greater advantages for web development.

Jan Machacek is a excellent speaker, very clear and enthusiastic as well as knowledgeable without being arrogant. He clearly understands Spring Roo inside out and was able to answer all of the questions asked. The only frustrating thing was that every time I thought of a question, it was answered a few slides later.

You can see the video here.

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  1. Onkar Joshi23 June 2011 at 08:40

    "The only frustrating thing was that every time I thought of a question, it was answered a few slides later."

    Heh.

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  2. Paul Grenyer23 June 2011 at 09:08

    Yeah, it meant I didn't get to ask anything!

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  3. AlexMc23 June 2011 at 09:13

    I've been using Spring Roo for some time and unfortunately missed the LJC event last night.

    > I don't yet know know enough Grails

    The "vibe" I am getting is that Grails does more, and has more features, but with Spring Roo you end up with a *Spring* application, and that is why most people use it.

    I'm afraid I don't know enough Grails to tell you how important that is, but it seems to be important to many.

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  4. Phil Nash23 June 2011 at 12:23

    I liked the url:

    "ive-just-got-back-from-fantastic"

    I've never been to fantastic. Is it good?

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