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Alfresco SDK 2.0

Rapid Application Development (RAD)

These tutorials cover how to employ the RAD features of the Alfresco SDK.

Rapid Application Development (RAD) and Test Driven Development (TDD) are big goals for the Alfresco SDK. The SDK is designed to support the hot reloading of code (via Spring Loaded) so that you can modify JavaScript, FreeMarker and Java code, and have the changes take effect without having to click the Refresh Web Scripts button, restart Tomcat, restart Alfresco, or restart anything else!

For example, in your SDK project, you can change test code, re-run your test, and the results will be displayed immediately. This allows for Test Driven Development (TDD).

The hot reloading above all saves you time as a developer. No more waiting around for Alfresco restarts to see your code changes take effect. This saves you time and money.

Important: It is assumed that you will work through the tutorials in this section in the order in which they are presented.
  • Installing Spring Loaded Shows how to install Spring Loaded to allow hot reloading of code.
  • Installing Eclipse Shows how to install Eclipse Luna.
  • Creating an AMP project in Eclipse This task shows you how to create a new AMP project in Eclipse.
  • Creating a Share project with Eclipse This tutorial focuses on creating a Share AMP archetype project from within the Eclipse IDE.
  • Creating an All-in-One project with Eclipse This tutorial focuses on creating an All-in-One archetype project from within the Eclipse IDE.
  • Hot reloading in Eclipse Hot reloading is the ability to modify your application's code, and view the changes without having to reload Alfresco or Tomcat. This allows for significant savings in development time that would be wasted restarting Alfresco or Tomcat. Hot reloading is the key to enabling RAD and TDD.
  • Importing SDK projects into Eclipse The Alfresco SDK is designed to work well with Eclipse. This support includes the ability to import existing SDK projects (perhaps created via the command line) into Eclipse.
  • Remote debugging with Eclipse It is possible to start an application ready for remote debugging by using the Maven mvnDebug command.
  • Importing SDK projects into IntelliJ The Alfresco SDK is designed to work well with IntelliJ. This support includes the ability to import existing SDK projects (perhaps created via the command line) into IntelliJ.
  • Hot reloading in IntelliJ Hot reloading is the ability to modify your application's code, and view the changes without having to restart Alfresco or Tomcat. This allows for significant savings in development time that would be wasted restarting Alfresco or Tomcat. Hot reloading is the key to enabling RAD and TDD.
Parent topic: Alfresco SDK 2.0

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