Spring Roo 1.1 Cookbook

Spring Roo 1.1 Cookbook

Overview of this book

Spring Roo is an easy-to-use productivity tool for rapidly developing Java enterprise applications using well-recognized frameworks such as Spring, Hibernate, AspectJ, Spring Web Flow, Spring Security, GWT, and so on. Spring Roo takes care of creating maven-enabled projects, enterprise application architecture based on your choice of technologies, unit/integration tests based on your choice of testing framework, and so on. The bottom line is that if you're using Spring, then you must consider using Spring Roo for increased productivity. Spring Roo 1.1 Cookbook brings together a collection of recipes that demonstrate how the Spring Roo developer tool simplifies rapidly developing enterprise applications using standard technologies/frameworks such as JPA, GWT, Spring, Flex, Spring Web Flow, Spring Security, and so on. It introduces readers to developing enterprise applications for the real world using Spring Roo tool. The book starts off with basic recipes to make readers comfortable with using Spring Roo tool. As the book progresses, readers are introduced to more sophisticated features supported by Spring Roo in the context of a Flight Booking application. In a step-by-step by fashion, each recipe shows how a particular activity is performed, what Spring Roo does when a command is executed, and why it is important in the context of the application being developed. Initially, you make a quick start with using Spring Roo through some simple recipes. Then you learn how Spring Roo simplifies creating the persistence layer of an enterprise application using JPA. You are introduced to the various roo commands to create JPA entities, create relationships between JPA entities, create integration tests using Spring TestContext framework, and so on. Following this, the book shows you how Spring Roo simplifies creating the web layer of an enterprise application using Spring Web MVC, Spring Web Flow, and how to create selenium tests for controller objects. Subsequently, we focus on using Spring-BlazeDS, GWT, JSON, and so on. Spring Roo commands that are used to incorporate e-mail/messaging features into an enterprise application are demonstrated next. Finally, we wrap it up with some miscellaneous recipes that show how to extend Spring Roo via add-ons, incorporate security, create cloud-ready applications, remove Spring Roo from your enterprise application, and so on.

Spring Roo 1.1 Cookbook

Credits

About the Author

About the Reviewers

www.PacktPub.com

Preface

Free Chapter

Getting Started with Spring Roo

Introduction

Setting up Roo

Using Spring Roo with Eclipse/STS

Getting help and hints from Roo

Creating a Roo project

Importing a Roo project into Eclipse or IntelliJ IDEA IDE

Configuring logging

Viewing properties defined in a properties file

Managing properties defined in a properties file

Creating a Java class

Moving existing Spring projects to use Spring Roo

Adding attributes to a Java class

Creating a Java interface

Referring to a type from the Roo shell

Creating application artifacts from Roo script

Persisting Objects Using JPA

Introduction

Setting up a JPA provider for your project

Viewing database configuration properties

Managing database configuration properties

Creating persistent entities

Adding JSR 303 constraints to persistent fields

Controlling auto-generated methods of persistent entities

Creating integration tests for persistent entities

Creating new 'data on demand' for testing entities

Creating mock tests for persistent entities

Executing persistent entities tests

Creating applications that interact with multiple databases

Packaging your Roo project

Advanced JPA Support in Spring Roo

Introduction

Viewing candidate dynamic finder methods

Adding dynamic finder methods to an entity

Creating a many-to-one (or one-to-one) relationship between entities

Creating a one-to-many (or many-to-many)relationship between entities

Creating a mapped superclass

Customizing Roo-generated identifier definition

Generating database metadata

Creating entities from a database

Web Application Development with Spring Web MVC

Introduction

Auto-generating Spring MVC controllers andJSPX views from JPA entities

Packaging, deploying, and using aRoo-generated Spring MVC application

Modifying Roo-generated views

Round-tripping support in Spring Roofor web controllers and views

Creating a Spring MVC controller for a specific JPA entity

Manually creating a Spring MVC controller for a JPA entity

Adding static views to a Roo-generated web application

Internationalizing Roo-generated web applications

Adding or modifying themes generated by Roo

Adding JSON support to domain objects and controllers

Creating and executing Selenium tests for web controllers

Web Application Development with GWT, Flex, and Spring Web Flow

Introduction

Scaffolding GWT applications from JPA entities

Getting started with Flex application development

Scaffolding a Flex application from JPA entities

Getting started with Spring Web Flow

Emailing, Messaging, Spring Security, Solr, and GAE

Introduction

Sending e-mails using JavaMail API

Sending and receiving JMS messages

Configuring Spring Security for your application

Using Spring Security with Apache Directory Server

Deploying a GWT application on GAE

Deploying a Spring Web MVC application on GAE

Adding search capability to your domain model with Sol

Developing Add-ons and Removing Roo from Projects

Introduction

Setting up GnuPG for add-on development

Installing an installable add-on

Developing a simple add-on

Developing an advanced add-on

Converting non-OSGi JDBC drivers into OSGi-compliant bundles

Removing Roo with push-in refactoring

Adding Roo to a project using pull-out refactoring

Upgrading to the latest version of Roo

Index

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Setting up Roo

The first thing that you need to do to get started with using Spring Roo is to set up the Roo tool on your laptop or desktop.

In this recipe, we will look at how you can install Spring Roo and verify that it's ready to use.

Tip

What do I need to learn to effectively use Spring Roo?

If you are an experienced Java enterprise developer, then you hardly need to learn anything new to use Spring Roo. If you know how AspectJ ITDs (Inter-type Declarations) work, then it will be helpful to understand what Spring Roo does behind the scenes. As you go through the various recipes in this book, you will find enough details on how Spring Roo makes use of AspectJ ITDs.

Getting ready

As you are going to install Spring Roo, you first need to download Spring Roo ZIP archive from the official home page of Spring Roo(http://www.springsource.org/roo/start). Also, ensure that you have the following software installed on your machine:

Java SE 6 or later (http://java.sun.com/javase/downloads/index.jsp).
Apache Maven 3.x or later (http://maven.apache.org/download.html). Examples in this book make use of Apache Maven 3.0.2

How to do it...

To install Spring Roo, all you need to do is to follow the given steps:

Unzip the downloaded Spring Roo ZIP archive into a directory. Once you have unzipped Spring Roo ZIP file, you will see the directory structure (excluding the cache directory) as shown in the following screenshot:
Set the JAVA_HOME environment variable to point to the Java SE installation directory.
Set the ROO_HOME environment variable to point to the Roo installation directory.
If you are using Windows, add the ROO_HOME/bin directory to the PATH environment variable. If you are using Linux or Mac OS X, then create a symbolic link to the ROO_HOME/bin/roo.sh shell script.
Roo installation isn't complete unless you verify it. So, create a ch01-recipe sub-directory in the C:\roo-cookbbook directory, open command prompt, and go to the ch01-recipe directory. Now, execute the roo.bat batch file, as shown in the following commands:
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Downloading the example code
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```
C:\>cd roo-cookbbook
C:\roo-cookbbook>cd ch01-recipe
C:\roo-cookbbook\ch01-recipe>roo
    ____  ____  ____
   / __ \/ __ \/ __ \
  / /_/ / / / / / / /
 / _, _/ /_/ / /_/ /
/_/ |_|\____/\____/    1.1.1.RELEASE [rev 156ccd6]


Welcome to Spring Roo. For assistance press TAB or type "hint" then hit ENTER.
..
roo>
```
If you see the output as shown, it means you have successfully installed Spring Roo. You will notice that when you execute roo.bat or roo.sh, the command prompt changes to roo>. You are now ready to play with Spring Roo.

How it works...

Spring Roo is built on top of Apache Felix (http://felix.apache.org/site/index.html) OSGi container, which promotes modularity and dynamic assembly of applications. The bundle directory contains OSGi bundles that form part of Spring Roo release. These bundles provide core services required by Roo and add-ons that support code generation. When you first start Spring Roo by executing Roo batch file or shell script, then these bundles are installed and copied into the cache directory of your Spring Roo installation.

There's more...

Spring Roo comes with certain core services and base add-ons that are part of Spring Roo distribution. Core services like the Roo shell, file system monitor, bootstrap, and so on, provide the necessary infrastructure for the add-ons to perform their intended responsibility. Add-ons are at the heart of Spring Roo and they provide the code generation functionality. For instance, the e-mail add-on adds e-mail support and the JPA (Java Persistence API) add-on helps with setting up a JPA provider, creating JPA entities, their relationships, and so on.

As Roo add-ons are OSGi compliant, you can additionally create a custom add-on or download a third-party add-on and install it as part of your Spring Roo installation to extend Roo's functionality.

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