Acceleo JEE Module Sprint '08

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Contents 1 Date 2 Participants 2.1 Exteriors 2.2 Obeo 3 Topics 3.1 Hibernate 3.2 Services 3.3 UI Modelisation and generation 4 Opening up new technical technologies

Date

Acceleo JEE Sprint 08 took place on 22nd October 2008

Participants

Exteriors

• Dufrêne Guillaume - Argia-Engineering
• Furet Goulwen - FT R&D
• Guyard Pierrick - Teamlog
• Landuré Julien - Euriware
• Liard Samuel - FT R&D
• Poussin Benjamin - Code Lutin
• Templier Thierry - Argia-Engineering

Obeo

• Le Fur Goulwen
• Benois Jérôme
• Bouchet Stéphane
• Delaigue Laurent
• Notot Cédric

Topics

Many topics were discussed during this event. We have worked on 3 of them.

Hibernate

• Compatibility with JPA / Using annotations?
• Technical modelisation
  • Primary Keys management
  • Entities composition (lazy or not?)
  • Entities inheritance (strategy management - cascade)
• DTO management
  • Modelisation (Filter?)
  • Observable DTO - PropertyChangeSupport
• Generation improvement
  • Naming rules
  • Finders generation (3 Strategies)

Services

• Modeling of flow services (services orchestration, transaction propagation in distributed context)
• Add Spring Dynamic Modules support (generate configuration to define provided and required OSGi services)
• Use of Spring Webflow

UI Modelisation and generation

• GUI modeling by state machines
• Switching to Struts 2.0
• Ability to use maven directory layout
• Custom generation for CRUD use case

Opening up new technical technologies

Obviously some sprinters have some ideas for new target technologies. Here are some of them addressed during the day:

• Flex
• GWT
• Tapestry