Sample App 0.1.1 Released

I’ve just uploaded a minor patch to Sample App. This fixes some errors in the production build targets, and adds more thorough JavaDoc and YUI Doc.

sample-app-0.1.1.zip – 20.6 MB

You can also find out more about Sample App.

Sample App 0.1 Released

I’ve just posted a Java webapp called “Sample App” (until I can think of a better name for it). The goal for this webapp is to be a project template using industry-standard libraries and best-practices for full-stack Java application development, from a high-performance rich client tier, back to the database. There’s nothing particularly revolutionary about it, but it’s hard to find this particular combination of features – especially a combined rich frontend and backend. It’s released under a BSD license.

sample-app-0.1.zip

Check it out, take what’s helpful to you, and improve on the rest!

Features

• Client
  • Logging (YUI Logger)
  • Combination of assets to save on HTTP requests
  • CSS sprites automatically generated (SmartSprites)
  • Minification (YUI Compressor)
  • Ajax requests (YUI Connection)
  • Strict presentation logic boundary (JSTL)
  • Copy in properties files
  • Object-oriented JavaScript
  • Event binding performed by JavaScript, not in markup
• Server
  • Separation of business logic and webapp into distinct projects
  • Dependency injection (Spring)
  • Unit testing (JUnit)
  • MVC (Struts configured via Spring)
  • ORM (Hibernate)
  • Logging (Log4J)
  • Separate Business Logic and DAO tiers
• Build
  • Separate build targets for dev and prod environments, changing config files, adding additional JS, and enabling/disabling logging and minification
  • Run on local box from a bare checkout using a build target, without any additional configuration or native code (Jetty, HSQLDB)

Requirements:

• JDK 1.5 or above
• Ant 1.6.5 or above

Getting Started:

Download the zip file above, expand it, go to sample-webapp/build, and run ant. This will run the default target run-dev. The app will then be accessible on your local computer at http://localhost:8080/sample-webapp/

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In Firefox 3 on Windows, a Flash movie had a black-and-white dotted border when clicked upon.

Turns out that this is because it has a default “outline” style in FF3. Style it to “outline:none” and you should be fine.

Better solution: use a CSS Reset =]