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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