Chapter 12. Spring Roo

SpringSource has a growing track record of delivering software that removes impediments that plague enterprise software engineers. Spring Roo is its latest ambitious attempt to bring rapid application development (RAD) to Java developers.

In this chapter, we're going to rebuild our art gallery application from scratch so that you can see just how quickly Roo can jump-start a project. This will also provide you with an excellent opportunity to compare and contrast what we've done by hand up to this point with everything that Roo generates automatically. The productivity gains will be immediately obvious.

What Roo Is (and What It Is Not)

Roo's architecture revolves primarily around Spring and AspectJ, the AOP framework that Spring ...

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