Spring Roo

Abstract

As you’ve seen in this chapter, although Roo isn’t yet magical enough to put programmers out of work, it does give you an enormous jump-start in terms of raw development speed. It helps eliminate much of the tedium associated with developing enterprise Java applications by automatically generating boilerplate code into AspectJ ITDs and modifying your Spring application context configuration as your project grows.

Roo boasts a strong architecture based on OSGi and add-ons. With the backing of SpringSource, it’s likely to evolve at a frantic pace as the Roo team strives to deliver more best-of-breed solutions that simplify the lives of developers around the globe.

One of the biggest hurdles for adopting most RAD frameworks on the JVM is that using them is a viable option only when writing a new application or in the rare circumstance that a total application rewrite is in order. But Roo can be introduced into an existing application without forcing any changes to the way other team members write their code. As the framework is proven in your environment, the productivity gains should be irrefutable, and your development team will likely embrace the positive change. We highly recommend that you try using it to implement a new feature on your existing Spring- and Hibernate-powered application.