Spring Roo: Productive Enterprise Application Development

Spring Roo combines the power of the Spring framework, magic of annotations, and awesomeness of AspectJ to provide unimaginable productivity for building enterprise applications. This open source project provides Java programmers a real choice in creating applications quickly without compromising on performance, while enjoying goodies that come with statically typed languages--code completion, immediate feedback on errors, and robust refactoring. Spring Roo does all this without the locking-in that you would typically expect from such a productive solution.

In this presentation, we will create an application from scratch. We will pick a domain suggested by attendees and develop JSP- and GWT-based front end, JPA-based persistence, security, automated tests, and so on. We will do all this and still have time left to show how it all works. Come to this presentation as a skeptic and leave as a believer!