JBoss Forge - Breaking new ground in developer productivity

How many times have you wanted to start a new project in Java EE, but struggled to put all the pieces together? Has the Maven archetype syntax left you scratching your head? Everyone else is talking about Rails, Grails, and Roo, and you're left thinking, "I wish it were that easy for me." Well, there's good news: You don't have to leave Java EE just to find a developer tool that makes getting started easy. JBoss Forge is heating up the Java EE landscape, enabling you to optimize your development workflow.

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2. JBOSS FORGE BREAKING NEW GROUND IN DEVELOPER PRODUCTIVITY By / Vineet Reynolds L P @VineetReynolds Senior Software Engineer JBoss Developer Experience, Red Hat
3. AGENDA What is JBoss Forge ? Let's see why we need this. Is it suitable for everybody ? You're a beginner and you want a tool that helps you make fewer mistakes. You're a pro and you want a tool that automates away the trivial bits.
4. AGENDA Can you extend it to suit your needs ? You have unique needs. Your company has unique needs. Your customers have unique needs.
5. LET'S TALK ABOUT PRODUCTIVITY...
6. Every one wants development to be like simple. Some expect to learn one language, a few APIs, maybe one framework, and meet all demands with a limited set of primitives.
7. But in reality - One language is hardly sufficient. APIs are numerous. Frameworks are dime a dozen. And it takes time to discover best practices relevant to your development stack.
8. Achieving expertise is not easy. It takes time. Scaling expertise across teams is even tougher.
9. SPEAKING OF FORGE... It is a tool to aid in automation of repetitive tasks. It helps in generation of boilerplate code. It is available as an Eclipse plugin and a standalone shell (for now).
10. INSTALL AS AN ECLIPSE PLUGIN
11. DOWNLOAD AND GET STARTED WITH THE CLI TOOL
12. FORGE IN ACTION Create a project
13. FORGE IN ACTION Setup JPA, CDI, BV etc.
14. FORGE IN ACTION Scaffold the app
15. LOOKING BACK... Forge commands surpass Maven archetypes or similar solutions. Forge is not constrained to any framework. It offers productivity to beginners (IDE users) and experts (shell users) alike. It provides 'sugar' at a higher level than language constructs. Productivity is not limited by requiring you to be aware of "syntactic sugar".
16. LOOKING BACK... It provides a safety net for beginners. Forge commands provide reproducible results. It allows knowledge to be 'crystallized' into executable code. Experts can share standardized solution patterns with beginners.
17. FORGE IN ACTION Write your own addons
18. TAKEAWAY POINTS Forge automates common development tasks, out of the box. You can extend it to solve your problems. It provides a simple programming model to enable this. And it does this without constraining you to a specific environment.
19. QUESTIONS ? You don't have a question yet. How do you get in touch later? The F2 source + dev guides: The Forge site: The forums: email: email (For contributors): Twitter: http://github.com/forge/core http://forge.jboss.org http://community.jboss.org/en/forge forge-users@lists.jboss.org forge-dev@lists.jboss.org @JBossForge
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