JavaFX and Spring CRUD

Exadel Flamingo RIA framework comes with CRUD application generator. Using the maven-based generator, you can easily generate JavaFX user interfaces connected to Spring or Seam back-ends. In this post I showed how to do it Seam. Let’s do the same with Spring framework. There are just a few simple steps.

1. If you don’t have, download and install JavaFX SDK 1.2 for your operating system.
1. Set JAVAFX_HOME variable
2. Download Exadel Flamingo
3. Unzip the downloaded file
4. Run flamingoinstall (if you are on Linux, you will need to make the file executable)
5. Inside flamingo/bin, run flamingo create project . Just follow the wizard questions, in most cases you can accept the default values. My answers are shown in bold.

   max@:~/Exadel/Flamingo/flamingo-1.8.2$ ./bin/flamingo create project
   [INFO] Scanning for projects...
   [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
   [INFO] Building Maven Default Project
   [INFO]    task-segment: [com.exadel.flamingo.maven.plugin:flamingoapp:1.8.2:create-project] (aggregator-style)
   [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
   [WARNING] While downloading jboss:javassist:3.3.ga
     This artifact has been relocated to javassist:javassist:3.3.GA.
   
   [INFO] [flamingoapp:create-project]
   discovered andromdapp type --> 'flamingo-seam'
   discovered andromdapp type --> 'flamingo-spring'
   Please choose the type of application to generate (flamingo-seam, flamingo-spring):[flamingo-spring]
   flamingo-spring
   Please enter the location in which your new application will be created (i.e. c:/java/development):
   [/home/max/Exadel/Flamingo/dev]
   /home/max/Exadel/Flamingo/dev
   Enter the project name (e.g. myproject): [javafx-spring]
   javafx-spring
   Please enter the root package name for your project (e.g. com.mydomain.myproject): [com.sample]
   com.sample
   Will this project have Flex or JavaFX user interface? (flex, javafx): [javafx]
   javafx
   What kind of database are you using? (hsql, mysql, oracle, postgres, mssql, db2, sybase, none): [hsql]
   hsql
   Enter the JDBC URL for your database (e.g. jdbc:hsqldb:.): [jdbc:hsqldb:.]
   jdbc:hsqldb:.
   Enter database username: [sa]
   sa
   Enter database password: []
   Do you want to update the database schema each time you deploy? (y, n): [y]
   y
   Enter the entity class name (Flex source files to view and modify entities will be generated as well): [Person]
   Person
   ....
   ....
   

6. Once generation is completed, go to javafx-spring/web and run this command: ant -f build.xml create-keyEntry
7. Go one level up to javafx-spring/web and run: mvn package
8. Copy javafx-spring/web/target/javafx-spring.war to Tomcat
   8) Start Tomcat
9. Go to http://localhost:8080/javafx-spring and start the JavaFX applet.

You will see an application shown below:

Login screen:

Main screen (before entering users):

Adding a user:

Main screen with users: