Roo dependency

[vamsi06]

How do I complete erase all roo dependency from my project if I so choose? The website says I can do it within 4 clicks. I haven't found any related documentation.

I tried "remove roo" from the shell. Looks like thats not implemented yet.

[raul.arabaolaza]

Hi,

You can use STS push in refactor to add all Roo´s generated code to your java classes, after that you have a usual java web project with no Roo´s dependencies.

Regards

[dalford]

Open the roo shell tab in STS and type

push in itds

This will give you a prompt with a list of all the ITD's that roo has generated. Press ok and STS will merge them into your Java code.

You now have a plain Spring project.

[rrc7cz]

Open the roo shell tab in STS and type

push in itds

I ran this, but my Entities still use @RooJavaBean, @RooToString, @RooEntity, while my Controllers still have @RooWebScaffold, etc.

How can I get rid of ALL roo dependencies?

[raul.arabaolaza]

I´ve not tried it, but i think you can simply delete it

Anyway the annotations retention police is code, so even if they are in your source code you don´t have any Roo dependency at runtime, that is a Roo generated webapp don´t need any Roo jar on the classpath.

Regards

[Ben Alex]

That's right. The push in refactoring won't delete the @Roo* annotations or remove Roo's annotation JAR from your compile-time classpath, but you can do this yourself quite safely if you've push in refactored. It really is true that you have no dependency on Roo. You just need to complete the removal process.

[jtan]

If for any reason, due to mistake or change of mind, I would like to undo or reverse the pushed in of aspects into Java files, thus creating aspects .aj files again, is this possible?

If not, is there any plan to support this in the future?

Thanks for such a great tool.

[raul.arabaolaza]

I´ve tried something similar a time ago, i don´t know if you can "undo" the refactor from AJDT i think there´s a "extract to ITD" feature, but it´s easy for you to make Roo usefull again.

First remove all methods in your regular java files you want again to be on the itd

Then if you removed the Roo* annotations add it again, annotations like RooController and so on...

Start roo on your project, it should parse your java files and regenerate the ITDs as needed.

A bit of manual work, but not much i think.

BTW if you think you could need Roo in the future you should consider not using Push in, i mean, you don´t have any roo dependency on your generated App even if you use Roo´s full power, the maven build generates only standard class files, so no aspectj at all in your app, also annotations have code retention policy, so no roo´s jar in your classpath... i only can think in two scenarios were you really need to do a push in. First, your IDE don´t have AspectJ support, second, for any reason your boss don´t want you to use Roo in development time and don´t care if the final result is not Roo dependeant.

HTH, Raúl