Roo

In my son's fun little books, I learned about a character named Roo in a Winnie the Pooh book.



It is fairly interesting that people starts looking at cartoon characters for names.

While looking around programming sites, I see there is a fairly new programming tool from Spring that is named Spring Roo.
It is another enter-something-at-the-prompt-crank-a-lot-of-stuff-for-you tool. Good! Nobody needs the XML mess to configure source code with MVC...

Waita minute, there is already Grails that does similar things. Grails is based on Groovy, which is Java + native lists and maps.

And both very similar things from one Spring Source? This link explains why there are two such things.

Typing stuff at prompt cranking out stuff is nice, but still not simple and intuitive enough.
Should be as simple as New->Controller, New->Action, New->Test on an IDE to crank some skeletons for me. /* Someone may have done something like this as Eclipse plug in. */
Nothing should make me type a long command at the prompt.