README.asciidoc

scaffold

This addon exports services for use in other addons. The Scaffold addon allows for code generation, specifically end-user UI generation.

Dependencies: None

Setup

This Addon requires the following installation steps.

Add configuration to pom.xml

To use this addon, you must add it as a dependency in the pom.xml of your forge-addon classified artifact:

<dependency>
   <groupId>org.jboss.forge.addon</groupId>
   <artifactId>scaffold</artifactId>
   <classifier>forge-addon</classifier>
   <version>${version}</version>
</dependency>

Features

Extensibility

The scaffold addon introduces commands to generate UIs from JPA entities (scaffold-generate-from-entities and scaffold-setup) and extends these commands by using ScaffoldProvider implementations. You may implement your own ScaffoldProvider to generate artifacts from the selected JPA entities.

public class MyScaffoldProvider implements ScaffoldProvider {
  @Override
  public String getName() {
     return "my-architecture";
  }

  @Override
  public String getDescription() {
     return "My excellent Home-grown architecture";
  }

  @Override
  public List<Resource<?>> setup(ScaffoldSetupContext setupContext) {
      //TODO: Change pom.xml to add the necessary libs and create the index.html page
  }

  @Override
  public List<Resource<?>> generateFrom(ScaffoldGenerationContext generationContext) {
    // Generate DAOs, BOs, Managers, etc.
  }
  ...
}