How many times have you wanted to start a new project in Java EE, but struggled to put all the pieces together? Has the Maven archetype syntax left you scratching your head? Everyone else is talking about Rails, Grails, and Roo, and you're left thinking, "I wish it were that easy for me." Well, there's good news: You don't have to leave Java EE just to find a developer tool that makes getting started easy. JBoss Forge is heating up the Java EE landscape, enabling you to optimize your development workflow.

2. JBOSS FORGE
BREAKING NEW GROUND IN DEVELOPER PRODUCTIVITY
By Vineet Reynolds L P / @VineetReynolds
Senior Software Engineer
JBoss Developer Experience, Red Hat

3. AGENDA
What is JBoss Forge ?
Let's see why we need this.
Is it suitable for everybody ?
You're a beginner and you want a tool that helps you make
fewer mistakes.
You're a pro and you want a tool that automates away the
trivial bits.

4. AGENDA
Can you extend it to suit your needs ?
You have unique needs.
Your company has unique needs.
Your customers have unique needs.

5. LET'S TALK ABOUT PRODUCTIVITY...

6. Every one wants development to be like simple.
Some expect to learn one language, a few APIs,
maybe one framework, and meet all demands
with a limited set of primitives.

7. But in reality - One language is hardly sufficient.
APIs are numerous. Frameworks are dime a
dozen.
And it takes time to discover best practices
relevant to your development stack.

8. Achieving expertise is not easy. It takes time.
Scaling expertise across teams is even tougher.

9. SPEAKING OF FORGE...
It is a tool to aid in automation of repetitive tasks.
It helps in generation of boilerplate code.
It is available as an Eclipse plugin and a standalone shell (for
now).

10. INSTALL AS AN ECLIPSE PLUGIN

11. DOWNLOAD AND GET STARTED WITH THE CLI
TOOL

12. FORGE IN ACTION
Create a project

13. FORGE IN ACTION
Setup JPA, CDI, BV etc.

14. FORGE IN ACTION
Scaffold the app

15. LOOKING BACK...
Forge commands surpass Maven archetypes or similar
solutions.
Forge is not constrained to any framework.
It offers productivity to beginners (IDE users) and experts
(shell users) alike.
It provides 'sugar' at a higher level than language constructs.
Productivity is not limited by requiring you to be aware of
"syntactic sugar".

16. LOOKING BACK...
It provides a safety net for beginners.
Forge commands provide reproducible results.
It allows knowledge to be 'crystallized' into executable code.
Experts can share standardized solution patterns with
beginners.

17. FORGE IN ACTION
Write your own addons

18. TAKEAWAY POINTS
Forge automates common development tasks, out of the box.
You can extend it to solve your problems.
It provides a simple programming model to enable this.
And it does this without constraining you to a specific
environment.

19. QUESTIONS ?
You don't have a question yet. How do you get in touch later?
The F2 source + dev guides: http://github.com/forge/core
The Forge site: http://forge.jboss.org
The forums: http://community.jboss.org/en/forge
email: forge-users@lists.jboss.org
email (For contributors): forge-dev@lists.jboss.org
Twitter: @JBossForge

20. CREDITS
Survey crew, 1952 by Seattle Municipal Archives, used under CC BY 2.0
Lake Forest Park Reservoir under construction, 1962 by Seattle Municipal Archives, used under CC BY 2.0
Municipal building under construction, 1961 by Seattle Municipal Archives, used under CC BY 2.0 / Cropped
from original
Engineer working on plans for Lake Union area, circa 1960s by Seattle Municipal Archives, used under CC BY
2.0
RAAF History by Timothy Swinson, used under CC BY / Desaturated from original
Human ornithopter by Tom Wigley, used under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0
Cockpit of a Concorde supersonic passenger jet by Lars Plougmann, used under CC BY-SA 2.0