SpringSource CEO to tout Roo, a new Java enhancement
Normally, talk of Java development technologies doesn't make anybody think of "Winnie the Pooh" characters or the land Down Under, even if the founder of the popular Spring Framework for Java, Rod Johnson, is himself Australian. But that could change this week at the JavaOne conference in San Francisco.
Johnson, CEO of SpringSource, will detail a new project, Spring Roo, which shares a name with a kangaroo from the Winnie the Pooh series. He also plans to discuss the upcoming Spring Framework 3.0.
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Emerging from the Australia branch of SpringSource, Roo aids in development and enhancement of Spring applications with minimal hand-coding, Johnson, said. "Roo is essentially a round-tripping code generator," Johnson said. "What it is does is it gives you a kind of high-level syntax that enables you to create an application and also add functionality to an existing application."
Originally an acronym for "Real Object Oriented," Roo can generate Java code, servlets, deployment descriptors, and JavaServer Pages. Originally discussed at the recent SpringOne Europe 2009 conference in Amsterdam, SpringSource was set to put out the first stable release of Roo last week.
"Roo is actually pretty interesting for a couple of reasons," said analyst Kirk Knoernschild, of Burton Group. "One, it allows you to generate a skeleton Spring 3.0-based application using code generation capabilities and out of the box, when using Roo, you get a few nice things. It creates the directory structure, it can set up the login and configuration files, database configuration details."
But Roo probably will not be of interest to shops not using the Maven build manager for Java, which is leveraged by Roo, Knoernschild said.
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