Celerio Overview

Celerio is a code generator tool for data-oriented application.

Celerio uses as input the entity-relationship model used by all relational databases. This model is present in production and most developers understand it. To obtain this model, Celerio connects to your database and does a "reverse engineering" of your database schema. Celerio supports Oracle, My Sql, Postgres, DB2, etc.

The model can be augmented using a configuration file. You may for example configure inheritance, rename some variables, declare some bi-directional associations, etc. Then Celerio executes code generation templates written in Velocity

Celerio comes with code generation templates organized into templates packs ('Backend' pack', 'JSF 2' pack, etc...). These templates address most use cases of data-oriented applications.

The code that Celerio generates leverages the best and latest Open Source technologies and standards and follows the best practices.

Of course Celerio is not required at Runtime.

Here is a high level overview of Celerio

Celerio Main features

• Database reverse engineering
  • Tables, columns, contraints, comments
  • Detects auto-generated keys (depends on driver jdbc)
  • Support composite key and composite relations
  • Dumps the reversed metadata in an XML file to avoid useless reverse operation.
• Convention over Configuration
  • Camel case naming for entity and fields
  • Sensitive default for many-to-one, one-to-one and many-to-many
  • Optimistic locking
• Configuration
  • Filter tables
  • Mapping rules for columns data type
  • Field renaming
  • Business key
  • Inheritance
  • Refine x-to-one, and x-to-many associations
  • Inverse association one-to-many, one-to-one, many-to-many
  • Labels for fields
  • Field visibility in search form, edit form, and search results tables
  • etc.
• Write your own generation templates, using existing one as source of inspiration
• Detect and preserve code modification across regeneration
• Integrate with Maven 2/3: Celerio comes as a Maven plugin. No IDE required!

Code Generation Templates Packs

'Backend' pack

• JPA2 entities (Hibernate)
  • Supports many-to-one, one-to-many, one-to-one, one-to-one inverse, many-to-many, many-to-many inverse
  • Inheritance
  • Bean Validation
  • Optimistic Locking
  • Date formatting
  • 2d level cache
  • Support main java type mapping (BigInteger, BigDecimal, Integer, String, etc...)
  • Generate helper methods for files (Blob)
• DAOs and services
  • Search by example with first level associated entities
  • Pagination
  • Named-query
  • Leverage generics
  • Transactions with Spring Framework (@Transactional)
  • Hibernate Search
• Generate Unit tests
• etc.

'JSF 2 & PrimeFaces' Pack

• Depends on 'Backend' Pack
• Generate advanced CRUD features for all entities
• View generation
  • Uses facelets
  • Uses PrimeFaces
  • Uses Conversation (home made scope)
• Spring Security ready
• etc.

Read our blog entry "Conversation with JSF2"

'Spring MVC 3 & JQuery' Pack

• Depends on 'Backend' Pack
• Controllers (regular, REST)
• Generate views
  • Auto-complete (ajax configuration)
  • forms
  • Complete navigation of entities graph
  • Search criteria (date range, ajax, etc.)
  • Ajax pagination
  • Layout with BluePrint Css
• Spring Security ready

Read our blog entry "Generate Spring MVC3, JQuery, JPA2 CRUD Application".

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