Spring Roo in Action

Preface

In the summer of 2009, I learned from Ben Alex about a new technology called Spring Roo. This project, based on a command-line shell, promised to bring the agility of other rapid development frameworks, such as Grails and Ruby on Rails, to the native Java and Spring platform. Using a shell instead of writing code seemed like a loss of control, but after downloading and experimenting with the tool, I started to realize the potential of this project. As you’ll see in the book, the biggest challenge faced by Spring developers—beyond writing business logic—is how to build an application architecture and configure various application features (for example, installing JMS, email, Spring MVC, JPA, NoSQL databases, and other frameworks). Roo ...