thejavajar

Just got home from presenting Spring Roo at the Tampa JUG. Everything went pretty smooth; basically did a demo of building a simple app with a few JPA entities. Then I imported the the project into Spring Tools Suite and ran it on tc Server. I created a few entities, did some updates and then opened up Spring Insight. People were impressed with what Insight has to offer. Vladimir Vivien contributed to the presentation by discussing some details of the internals of Roo and we both discussed the advantage of having something like Grails or Roo when looking for paths to productivity. Most of the JUG members in attendance were impressed with Roo but there still was this feeling of uncertainty about code generation and the ‘magical’ things happening in the background. All I know is that productivity is something that Spring Roo brings to table and the ‘magical’ things happen to reduce Java complexity so we can focus on getting the job done. Thanks to all of the JUG members who attended.