
SpringOne 2GX Keynote: Next Generation Applications
Ben Alex along with a SpringSource team present the future of mobile applications, authorization, data, and application architecture as seen by VMware.

Ben Alex along with a SpringSource team present the future of mobile applications, authorization, data, and application architecture as seen by VMware.

Ben Alex, the Roo’s founder, explains what Roo is, how to get started, and creates a project from scratch demonstrating some of Roo’s features: code assist, visual error reporting, JPA-based persistence, bean validation support, automated JUnit integration tests, entity finders, scripting support, messaging support, round-trip support, Eclipse and Spring Tool Suite integration and others.

Ben Alex demonstrates the creation of an enterprise Java application using Roo, a SpringSource open code generation tool, intended to help developers to be more productive without losing flexibility.

Dr Ben Alex, The Project Lead of the Spring Roo code generator project, discusses using Roo on an existing project, building custom templates and add-ons for Roo, and how its capabilities compare to other productivity tools such as Grails. The interview goes on to look at the related Spring Shell project and discusses Spring Security 3.0, which Ben Alex founded.