Spring Roo in Action

Part 4. Integration

In part 4, we focus on a couple of Java EE services that are critical parts of enterprise Java applications. You’ll learn how to integrate enterprise services such as email and messaging with Roo applications. You’ll also be introduced to another great feature of the Roo framework: support for add-ons.

But before we delve into these topics, we cover Roo’s unit and integration testing support in chapter 9, “Testing your application.” We look at the testing strategies for different tests like unit, integration, and functional tests. We also discuss DataOnDemand components—a useful test class to generate test fixtures. Mock objects are a great way to test a class with lots of dependencies. You’ll learn how to mock entities ...