Is there a CRUD generator utility in Java(any framework) like Scaffolding in Rails? [closed]

Answer 1

Use JHipster. It is built on the popular front end scaffolding tool 'yeoman'. It not only generates your back end including controllers, dao, security, user management, system and API metrics, logging etc using Spring Boot & Spring MVC 4, but also generates your front end using angular js. You also get goodies like grunt, karma and bower fully setup and ready to use! Along with this you also get database versioning!

It also has sub generators for generating domain entities which generates your java and corresponding front end for managing it's data.

It takes 10 mins to get a full webapp running.

Answer 2

NetBeans can generate CRUD for existing database in JSF.

What about OpenXava http://openxava.org ?

Answer 3

JBoss Seam has a scripting utility called seam-gen that will create scaffolding:

http://docs.jboss.org/seam/1.1BETA2/reference/en/html/gettingstarted.html

Answer 4

If you have an example project containing the kind of CRUD (or whatever) architecture you want, then Simple Scaffolding might be a useful approach.

It's a single class that scans your existing code base and creates templates which you can then apply to other entities. For example, MongoUserDao can be turned into a template which then generates, say, MongoCustomerDao. It works with any code and test fixtures.

Very basic, but gets the job done and it's FOSS under MIT license.

The GitHub repo is here: https://github.com/gary-rowe/SimpleScaffolding

Answer 5

Have a look at Minuteproject

And try it's demos.

Regarding technologies

If you look for just ORM + DAO try the track BSLA-JPA2 (BSLA meaning Basic Spring Layer Architecture). It promotes mask pattern to ease search.

If you want Active record oriented persistence look at JOOQ or Roo

If you want servlets look at minuteproject 4 Openxava or 4 Primefaces

If you want portlets look at Liferay Service builder minuteproject will generate service.xml input from your DB.

Regarding your model

If you want that your code (java) follows java convention and not DB convention use minuteproject. It has enrichment facilities that allows to:

• Package entities (table/view)
• Apply entity/field naming conventions
• Apply stereotypes/constraints/validations
• retrieve relationships (one2many, many2one, many2many) if foreign keys are missing ex here
• And many more

This enrichment can be applied individually at field/entity/package or globally via conventions (So you configure your own conventions).

Answer 6

reinCRUD is a vaadin add-on which works using annotated hibernate entities. You can create a CRUD application within a few minutes and you can re-use components like lists, forms and search forms.