Domain Driven Design with Spring

[greyfairer]

Hey, one session with me at a recent Sydney Spring User Group doesn't quite constitute a tour

To give credit where credit is due, ROO is Ben's baby - I've helped with some patches to the code and to the Dozer bean mapping utility that ROO uses. Importantly I have used ROO on two projects for Woolworths now that are in production in which ROO saved a great deal of development time and for the latter project, more than 300 JUnit integration tests were auto-generated testing all the basic CRUD operations for our rich-domain objects.

I can't wait for it to go open source.

Ben is offering the code now to anyone who will participate in his doctrate's research project. Email him

Last week he was in Canberra (http://www.springframework.org/node/470),
This week he's here in Antwerp, Belgium (http://www.springone.com/display/Spr...+Oriented+Apps)
And in two weeks he's going to Sweden with it (http://www.springframework.org/node/478). That's quite a tour to me.

Anyway, I'll ask him for the sources.

[Marten Deinum]

I'll be there tommorow on his session about ROO. So I hope to get some insights. What also quite excited me is the fact that for Spring 2.1 (m3) they have now LoadTimeWeaving support for AspectJ. Which opens up quite some opportunities and also opens up Spring even more for DDD I think.

[Alan Stewart]

And in two weeks he's going to Sweden with it (http://www.springframework.org/node/478). That's quite a tour to me.

Sorry I meant I've only appeared once with Ben.

I'm hoping other people can start using ROO soon in varying projects to get some feedback about it's capability, features and also to suggest improvements.
Alan

[Marten Deinum]

I just attended the session with Ben afterwards I asked some questions. Basicly they aren't going to release it (yet) because he still finds it is in inmature project/tool. He is working hard on a version which is ready/stable/mature enough for public release. He expects it to release around the SpringExperience at the end of this year.

[karldmoore]

It does seem like a really exciting project! I'd be quite interested to get my hands on it, but as Marten said it might be a while!

[Marten Deinum]

I was impressed with his demonstration, although it was a trivial example it showed some real power. It would be great if there was integration with Eclipse and maybe some other IDE's. That way it could be a great tool.

Although I'm not quite a fan of code generation ROO might be just that what I like. If you want you can control almost everything that is generated or what is nog generated.

[Andreas Senft]

Although I'm not quite a fan of code generation ROO might be just that what I like. If you want you can control almost everything that is generated or what is nog generated.

+1

I have also seen ill-used code generation several times and was a bit skeptical at first. But this approach seems indeed promising. If I remember correctly Ben mentioned something about better tool integration. So perhaps some plugin-support might be available in future. Looking forward to it

Regards,
Andreas