Running the project locally

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$ cd ${BASE_DIRECTORY}/spring-mvc-demo
$ clean package jetty:stop jetty:run-war

Launch the project at http://localhost:8080/{project-name}?f={functionalArea}&n={name}

Deploying project on Heroku

*Heroku Create (See: https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/git#creating-a-heroku-remote)

Feature Highlights

• Integrated Development Environment

  • Accompanied with Eclipse Development Suite composed of:
    • Project Wizard,
    • Page Wizard,
    • WYSIWYG Editor and
    • BPMN Editor.
  • The framework itself is Open Sources and the IDE is propriety software.

• File Structure

  • Derived from maven-webapp archetype, the project file structure is defined by kite-archetype as below:

  • src/main/java for Java Sources

  • src/main/resources for static configuration files

  • src/test/* for tests

  • src/main/webapp for static web resources (css, html, img, js)

• Spring MVC

  • Annotation Based Configuration
  • Selective Component Scan
  • Inversion of Control
  • Mock HttpServletResponse & Response for Integration Testing
  • SpringJUnit4ClassRunner for utilizing annotations during testing
  • Mustache Server Side Templating

• Hibernate

  • ORM Mapping
  • Model Validation
  • Transaction Management
  • Data-access-level pagination

• Maven

  • New application template is provided with Kite Archetype
  • Project Object Model (POM) Configuration
  • Parent Project (kite-base) controls over child app modules, which depend on seperate kite-framework package whose version is determined by kite-base
  • Platform independent resource & compilation encoding
  • Utilization of jetty-maven-plugin
  • Single line of command (clean test jetty:stop jetty:run) to clean, test, build and deploy

• Testing

  • JUnit and EasyMock for testing

• Front-End

  • Mustache.js for Document Object Model (DOM) Templating
  • jQuery for DOM Manipulation
  • Bootstrap for front-end styling and modal popUp actions
  • Namespacing pattern adopted for JavaScript
  • Implementation of Nicholas Zakas' Scalable JavaScript Application Architecture
  • Client Side JavaScript Front-End Coding opposed to Server Side Java Front-End Coding
  • Responsive Design by responsive.js
  • Sophisticated JavaScript Library Dependency Management by require.js

• Database Management

  • MySQL

• Version Control

  • Bitbucket - Heroku

• Other libraries used:

  • Log4j for logging
  • jCaptcha for captcha's
  • Jackson for json message translation

• Features planned for future

  • Tuckey URL Rewriting
  • jsDuck for automated documentation