Introducing Spring Roo - Extreme Productivity in 10 Minutes

Summary
Ben Alex, the Roo’s founder, explains what Roo is, how to get started, and creates a project from scratch demonstrating some of Roo’s features: code assist, visual error reporting, JPA-based persistence, bean validation support, automated JUnit integration tests, entity finders, scripting support, messaging support, round-trip support, Eclipse and Spring Tool Suite integration and others.

Bio
Dr Ben Alex is a Principal Software Engineer with SpringSource, and has been working professionally in software since 1995. Ben founded the Spring Security project in 2003 and led its development into a popular, open-source security framework. More recently Ben founded and serves as lead of the Spring Roo and Spring Shell projects.

About the conference
SpringOne 2GX is an annual event; it includes a technical exploration of the Spring ecosystem along with the latest developments in the Groovy/Grails space. As a participant, you will have the opportunity to attend two great events at one venue. Whether you're a Spring enthusiast, Tomcat user, Groovy/Grails fan, or just interested in open source development, you'll find valuable content in sessions presented here.