Spring Roo - Reference Documentation DISID Corporation S.L. - Pivotal Software, Inc Table of Contents Preface . 2 1. Overview . 2 2. Requirements . 2 3. Download Spring Roo . 2 4. Install Spring Roo . 2 5. What’s new in Spring Roo 2.0.0.M1 . 3 Improved extensibility . 3 Community Addons . 3 Easier to share your addons . 3 Backward compatibility . 3 I. Getting Started . 4 1. Introduction . 5 1.1. What is Roo? . 5 1.2. Why Use It . 6 1.2.1. Higher Productivity . 6 1.2.2. Stock-Standard Java . 7 1.2.3. Usable and Learnable . 7 1.2.4. No Engineering Trade-Offs . 8 1.2.5. Easy Roo Removal . 9 2. Beginning With Roo: The Tutorial . 11 2.1. What You’ll Learn . 11 2.2. Tutorial Application Details . 11 2.3. Step 1: Starting a Typical Project . 12 2.4. Step 2: Creating Entities and Fields . 15 2.5. Step 3: Integration Tests . 18 2.6. Step 4: Using Your IDE . 19 2.6.1. Edit, modify and customize the Roo-generated code . 20 2.7. Step 5: Creating A Web Tier . 21 2.8. Step 6: Loading the Web Server . 22 2.9. Securing the Application . 23 2.10. Customizing the Look & Feel of the Web UI . 25 2.11. Selenium Tests . 26 2.12. Backups and Deployment . 27 2.13. Where To Next . 28 3. Application Architecture . 29 3.1. Architectural Overview . ..