Project Able

Welcome to the wiki space for Project Able. The core idea behind Able is

• bundle the best of breed Open Source Libraries together to make a cohesive complete web stack
• provide a RAD, Rail-ish user experience. Kinda POJOs on rails

Why not dive right in by Getting Started?

Core idea

• the user can create an empty project which is fully configured with a single entity and is a working web application from the start
• type mvn jetty:run or the IDE equivalent to run the application and see it working
• add/modify JPA entity beans (POJOs using EJB3/JPA annotations) to get immediate persistence.
  • IDEs are good at creating/editing/visualising these using entity-modelling ideas etc
• you immediately get an automatic view and controller created for the entity model.
  • Just hit refresh after editing an entity model in your browser to see the new UI in action .

CRUD features

The following gives a brief overview of the CRUD features offered. You can of course reuse just what you need and remove/ignore/secure what you don't need.

• view all entities in a paginated view
• create, update and delete entities
• navigate the entire entity model
• search using a text based query using Lucene's query language to provide a GMail type of feel to your domain objects
• view individual entities, add new entities or edit/remove entities