Contents

foreword
preface
acknowledgments
about this book
about the authors
about the cover illustration

Part 1 Starting Spring apps rapidly with Roo

Chapter 1 What is Spring Roo?: Configuration is a burden; Enter Spring Roo; Roo by example—the Pizza Shop; Roo application architecture models; Summary; Resources
Chapter 2 Getting started with Roo: Working with the Roo shell; How Roo manages your projects; I want my IDE!; Refactoring, Roo ITDs‚ and leaving Roo; Summary; Resources

Part 2 Databases and entities

Chapter 3 Database persistence with entities: Your business objects and persistence; Working with entities; Validating Courses with Bean Validation; Searching with finders; Leaving Active Record—JPA repositories; Code samples; Summary; Resources
Chapter 4 Relationships, JPA, and advanced persistence: Object relations: it’s all relative; A sample Course Manager database; Course Manager relationships; Reverse engineering your database; Adding a service layer; Using JPA directly; NoSQL databases with MongoDB; Summary; Resources

Chapter 5 Rapid web applications with Roo: The Spring MVC web framework; Roo Spring MVC quick-start; Web scaffolding for entities; Accessing other Spring beans; Summary; Resources
Chapter 6 Advanced web applications: Customizing Roo CRUD views; Advanced customization; View layouts, theming, and localization; Summary; Resources
Chapter 7 RIA and other web frameworks: JavaScript and Ajax; Google Web Toolkit; Using JavaServer Faces; Other Roo UI frameworks; Summary; Resources
Chapter 8 Configuring security: Installing Spring Security; Securing a sample application; Testing security setup; Adding security event logging; Summary; Resources

Chapter 9 Testing your application: Roo testing philosophy; Stubbed unit tests; Unit tests using mock objects; Testing in-container with Roo; Web testing with Selenium; Improving your testing; Summary; Resources
Chapter 10 Enterprise services—email and messaging: Roo integration with enterprise services; Defining the sample Course Manager use cases; Setting up JMS in the Course Manager; Adding email support for course registration; Asynchronous messaging for registration confirmation; Monitoring messaging activity; Summary; Resources
Chapter 11 Roo add-ons: Extending Roo with add-ons; How add-ons work; Working with published Roo add-ons; Enough OSGi to be dangerous; Types of Roo add-ons; Roo wrapper add-ons; Adding a language to Roo with i18n; A simple add-on: jQuery UI; Summary; Resources
Chapter 12 Advanced add-ons and deployment: Advanced add-ons; To create an advanced add-on, you need Coffee(Script); Key add-on beans and services; Publishing your add-ons; Deploying to an OBR; Submitting your add-on; Summary

Chapter 13 Cloud computing: What is cloud computing?; Cloud Foundry; Roo add-on for Cloud Foundry; Deploying the Course Manager application to the cloud; Managing cloud services; Application monitoring in the cloud; The road ahead; Summary; Resources
Chapter 14 Workflow applications using Spring Integration: Workflow applications; Using the Spring Integration framework; Adding Spring Integration to your Roo application; Spring Integration add-on for Roo; Course registration workflow components; Summary; Resources