Spring Roo 1.2.0.RELEASE available now

[Alan Stewart]

We are very happy to announce the availability of Spring Roo 1.2.0.RELEASE (download here). Spring Roo is a rapid application development tool for Java, allowing you to create full enterprise applications in just minutes.

I will be writing a blog post soon for this major release, so please watch out for this.

Spring Roo has a very active community and responsive development team, so if you have any questions on this new release, please feel free to ask the Spring Roo engineering team on the Community Forum. You'll also find us on Twitter - either follow @SpringRoo or just include #SpringRoo in your tweets.

We hope you enjoy this new release.

[faunt]

Congraduration.

[fashoom]

Wahoo! Downloading now.

[fashoom]

OK that was a premature wahoo. Looks like you shipped the 1.1 doc w/ Roo 1.2. New features aren't very useful if we don't know what they are.

[Alan Stewart]

The PDF and html docs inside the zip are for 1.2, however we are still writing docs for a lot of the new features and will post them on the Roo home page soon. We wanted to get the release out before the end of the year and finishing the docs would have caused a slippage.

I'll be detailing some new commands for Multi-module Maven, repositories/services and JSF in a blog very soon.

[fashoom]

Blog posts are OK but releasing this without proper reference documentation that covers the release is inexcusable. And it's rather shocking to use "slippage" as rationale for shipping w/o doc, especially for an opensource project! This is very disappointing for Spring.

[ramesh12]

Hi,
I am working on a project using Spring ROO 1.2.0.GA release, mongodb 2.0.1 and gwt2.4.0.
I'm able to integrate Spring ROO and GWT, but when I try to connect to Mongo db, I get the following errors:

Error:

[ERROR] SEVERE: Could not find the locator type specified in the @com.google.web
.bindery.requestfactory.shared.ProxyForName annotation com.gwtmongo.Person
[ERROR] java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: com.gwtmongo.server.locator.PersonLoca
tor

...

[ERROR] SEVERE: Unexpected error
[ERROR] com.google.web.bindery.requestfactory.server.Unexp ectedException: Could
not find the locator type specified in the @com.google.web.bindery.requestfactor
y.shared.ProxyForName annotation com.gwtmongo.Person
[ERROR] at com.google.web.bindery.requestfactory.server.Servi ceLayerDeco
rator.die(ServiceLayerDecorator.java:216)
[ERROR] at com.google.web.bindery.requestfactory.server.Locat orServiceLa
yer.resolveLocator(LocatorServiceLayer.java:127)
[ERROR] at com.google.web.bindery.requestfactory.server.Servi ceLayerDeco
rator.resolveLocator(ServiceLayerDecorator.java:15 7)

I think it is missing the PersonLocator class, but I'm not sure how to generate it. If someone can help me on this, that would be great. I appreciate it.


I am following these steps

1) project --topLevelPackage com.gwtmongo
2) mongo setup
3) entity mongo --class ~.Person --testAutomatically
4) field string --fieldName firstName --notNull
5)web mvc setup
6) web mvc all --package ~.web
7)repository mongo --interface ~.repository.PersonRepository --entity ~.Person
8)service --interface ~.service.PersonService --entity ~.Person
9)web gwt setup
10) web gwt request all --package ~.client.request
11) web gwt proxy all --package ~.client.proxy
12)web gwt scaffold --proxyPackage ~.client.proxy --requestPackage ~.client.request --type ~.Person
13)perform package
14) mvn gwt:run

Thanks

Ramesh

[wil.pannell]

I had a similar problem scaffolding a gwt app. The locator classes weren't being generated.

What I discovered after much wasted trial-and-error was that the entities for which gwt generates locators require numeric version columns.

I would look up the docs and see about that first.

[Alan Stewart]

You can't use repositories yet with the Gwt add-on. See https://jira.springsource.org/browse/ROO-2903

[Bruce.Edge]

Does this support multi-module roo projects?
IOW can one use roo scaffolded entities from proj A and others from a proj B together in a proj C?