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Dave Meurer, a colleague of mine at Skyway Software, decided to put his creativity to use in creating a Double Rainbow parody for Spring and Java application developers.  In less than three minutes he generates five fully working Rainbow Management applications: (1) Spring MVC, (2) Spring Web Flow, (3) Adobe Flex + Spring, (4) GWT + Spring, and (5) iPhone Web.

Nice job Dave!!

Today I published a blog post on the Genuitec blog regarding the new GWT scaffolding functionality in MyEclipse for Spring 8.6.

This week Genuitec and Skyway Software released the second milestone (M2) of MyEclipse for Spring 8.6, which includes scaffolding for Google Web Toolkit (GWT) applications.  With this new release, you can now generate full ready-to-run GWT applications from your domain model (i.e. DB tables, Java Beans, or JPA Entities).

The new GWT scaffolding option is available using the same scaffolding wizard that MyEclipse for Spring developers are already familiar with.  The scaffolding wizard is a one-stop shop for all of the MyEclipse for Spring scaffolding capabilities, which also includes Spring MVC, Spring Web Flow and Adobe Flex scaffolding.

Yes indeed!!  In this post I will show a Spring framework based web application that was generated from a database schema.  The web layer will include multiple implementations, including Spring MVC, Spring Web Flow, Adobe Flex and iPhone Web.  The URL to the running application can be found at the end of the post, so you can see the various implementations yourself.

I just wrapped up my third (and last) new screencast for the week.  These screencasts focus on some of the new functionality for MyEclipse for Spring 8.6 (a milestone version is available for download), including scaffolding ready-to-run Spring MVC, Spring Web Flow, Adobe Flex, and iPhone web applications.  There still a lot of new functionality to be covered, and my colleague's and I will get several more screencasts recorded over the next few weeks.

Here's what's available now:

• Spring Tutorial - Scaffolding Spring MVC, Spring Web Flow, Adobe Flex and iPhone
• Spring Tutorial - Code Assistance for Spring framework stereotypes
• Spring Tutorial - Diving into Spring Web Flow scaffolding

[Screencasts can be viewed here]

It's interesting that when you develop open-source software you feel a great sense of relief when the software is ultimately delivered.  In some ways it feels like the end of a voyage because the delivery of software to your end-users (developers in the case of Skyway Builder) is typically one of the final steps in the workplan.  However from an end-user perspective it really is the beginning of the voyage.  Developers can finally get there hands on all the development goodies that you've been working on for them.

Before I get too caught up with working on the next release of Skyway Builder, I wanted to personally share the Skyway Builder 6.3 announcement with my family, friends, colleagues and followers.  I'm very proud of this release.  Whether you are a Spring guru or want to learn Spring, Skyway Builder will save you a lot of time.

Here's a copy of the announcement.

Skyway Software announces the general availability (GA) of Skyway Builder Community Edition (CE) 6.3, an open source, code generator for the Spring Framework. Version 6.3 of Skyway Builder CE is available for immediate download.  This major release of Skyway Builder CE includes:

• Enhanced Spring MVC scaffolding capabilities for generating Spring-based, Java CRUD applications from new or pre-existing domain models.  Watch demo
• Updated Spring DSL for improved package parity between Spring DSL and Spring/Java code
• Enhanced code generation customization for generating Spring MVC and Spring Web Flow solutions that adhere to your own coding standards
• Enhanced graphical Spring Web Flow editor, including usability improvements and better integration with Spring DSL
• Enhanced Spring code generation tags for use with JET templates
• Improved documentation, tutorials and sample projects
• Over 400 bug fixes and enhancements

Skyway Builder Enterprise Edition (EE) 6.3, the commercial edition of Skyway Builder, is also now GA and is available for test drive.  New commercial features in Skyway Builder EE include:

• Integration with IBM Rational Software Architect 7.5.2 to transform UML into working Spring applications. Watch demo
• DWR (JavaScript/JSON) support for accelerating RIA development using Spring services
• Support for project-level customization of code generation templates using JET

I figured I'd also share links to the Skyway Builder 6.3 Feature Preview Series that I did.

• Skyway Builder 6.3 Feature Preview – #1 Enhanced Spring MVC Scaffolding
• Skyway Builder 6.3 Feature Preview – #2 Model Packages
• Skyway Builder 6.3 Feature Preview – #3 Spring DSL Enhancements
• Skyway Builder 6.3 Feature Preview – #4 Configurable Spring Code Generation
• Skyway Builder 6.3 Feature Preview – #5 Custom Spring Templates using JET
• Skyway Builder 6.3 Feature Preview – #6 Spring Services via Javascript/JSON using DWR