Tool to use Spring Roo online?

Question

I want to quickly prototype a Java EE application. Starting with design models, Spring Roo would help me by creating CRUD artifacts. It is not installed in my command infrastructure.

Is there a web tool that generates Spring Roo code from a high-level description (diagram)?

Answer 1

I think the best approach to this problem is to create your own data model first. If you want, you can do it online using the tool from here: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3957060/what-are-some-useful-online-database-modeling-applications

Once you are happy with this and upload it to the local database, you can use the database reverse engineering function built into spring roo to create the application. See here for more on this process: http://static.springsource.org/spring-roo/reference/html/base-dbre.html