Features

Here are some of the features you can expect from RapidJ:

Code generation

• Generate complete J2EE web applications -- Quickly generates fully functional J2EE web applications based on the popular Struts framework.
• Customise generated applications -- Modify any part of the generated applications to better suit your specific needs.
• Identify and compare customisations -- Easily identify where you have customised your application and compare/merge them with the originals.
• Create new types of applications -- Create completely new types of applications by defining your own templates.

Application modelling

• Define your application problem domain -- Describe your applications by modelling the real world objects in your problem domain.
• Define the user interface -- Define the layout and functionality of the user interface for your generated applications.

Application servers

• J2EE 1.3 compatible -- Web applications will work on any application server that support the J2EE 1.3 APIs.
• Specific application server support -- Generates files specific to some of the popular application servers such as Weblogic, Resin and JBoss.

Database servers

• Create relational databases -- Generate SQL scripts that create the necessary database tables for your applications.
• Database server support -- Support for many of the popular database servers such as DB2, Oracle, SQLServer, MySQL and more. Can be customised to suit any database server.
• Populate databases with test data -- Generate SQL scripts that populate your databases with test data.
• Execute SQL commands -- Ability to execute SQL commands against any database that has JDBC connectivity.

Usability

• Test using integrated servers -- You can easily test your generated applications using the integrated Resin application server and HSQLDB database server.
• Not dependent on RapidJ -- Once an application has been generated it does not depend on RapidJ in any way.