Coaching for people managers

Developer spend 75% of their time working on boiler-plate code. Spring Roo do amazing job of doing that for you and gets you started really-2 fast. After that you can follow the application curve if writing the business logic. Why Roo? Define the class and its relation it will generate the DB using hibernate  you can generate the controller's ( and UI) from the same classes with CURD operation supported test code is also gets generated  code generated is clean and easy to modify dependency resolution happens through maven once you are done projects are eclipse ready easy to get rid of metadata for production  Other tools: I came across Grails but i needed a framework which will generate the java so roo was the better choice for me Video helped me get started:  http://s3.springsource.com/MRKT/roo/2010-01-Five_Minutes_Roo.mov

There are so many articles on the web discussing this, what I am going to do is just briefly explain the pros and cons of each which will help you choose better. Description Netbeans Eclipse Plugins It helps you extend the reach of your IDE to newer technologies without changing the IDE Good Good Code Refactor Reflects the change made in all the references Decent Good Getting Started The time it takes to get going on with your application Good Decent Enterprise Support Usage in big companies, spending effort in eclipse Decent Good Debugging Easy in which you can find a problem Decent Good UI Looks old Decent Good Spell Check Not Present Decent

Looking to get started on CXF-RS, well that was what i was looking for and there are load of articles doing however none of them provide sufficient bullet points to make me understand how the control is following are how to debug the application if something is not working. Well that's what i am going to write here. Following are components you need to get started with first CXF-RS: Tomcat Eclipse (or some equivalent IDE) Spring Create a dynamic web project in the eclipse (this is nothing but a simple web project which can deployed and can run when deployed in the web container like Tomcat). Keep your eye on the bold terms featuring in the files... Start will writing the web.xml descriptor file. contextConfigLocation WEB-INF/ deploy-context.xml org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoaderListener CXFServlet CXF Servlet org.apache.cxf.transport.servlet.CXFServlet 1 CXFServlet /*