Hi Robin, Thanks for sharing. The Akka core team doesn't have the bandwidth to review this. Regards, Patrik
On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 9:21 AM, Robin Bakkerus <[email protected]>wrote: > Hi > > After participating in the Scala reactive course at Coursera last year, I > jumped on the Scala, Slick, Spray and Akka bandwagons. The results so far > are promising, and a delight compared with the Java, Hibernate stack I > worked on for (too) many years. > In fact so promising that I created a completely new cartridge based on my > *EasyMda* to generate a reactive backed, based on the tools mentioned > above. At this point I am able to generate a fully functional working > application, in just a few second, after the model is defined! > There are still many things that need improved in this 'reactive' > cartridge, but I believe it is now ready enough to demonstrate. > Hence my question to you, if you want to have a look at this generated > reactive demo app, and tell me what is good, and more important tell me > what can be improved, so that I can update the cartridge accordingly. > I have attached the following: > > - A zipfile with the generated app "generated-reactive". This is a > regular Scala project that can be opened in a Scala Ide (3.0.2). It > contains a DemoMain file that starts the webserver on port 8000. The > datasource(s) can be controlled in application.conf. It also contains a > number of junit tests to test the dao layer (see pck: > *flca.demo.data.test.dao*) > All the files under *src /main/scala* resp *src/test/scala*. Under > src-easy-model, the Java files can be found that were used to generate the > application. > > You may find more info on *EasyMda* at: *https://code.google.com/p/easymda/ > <https://code.google.com/p/easymda/> * here you can also find links to > YouTube videos how to use *EasyMda (*for example: http://www.youtube. > com/watch?v=s1bCPQGYjOY ) > > I hope you can give me feedback, because a good code generator may not > only give you the ability quickly generate a lot of plumbing code, but > (imo) more important, may generate high quality code. So that you can > concentrate on the actual implementation. > > About the current reactive cartridge: > I wanted to generate an application that is completely stateless and > asynchronously, without all Hibernate headaches and very fast! This lead me > to Spray to handle the http/json requests. Akka as the asynchronous > middle-ware and Slick for persistence. > Most of the time was spent in the ability to support complete ORM mapping, > similar to Hibernate but than better. See the README uncer " > *flca.demo.entity.dao*" > > Foreseen improvements > > - see the TODO's in the Eclipse task window > - @ManyToMany resulting in a join is not yet supported. > - Optimistic locking using a Version should be supported > - The *findXxx *should support an optional filter and also paging > facility > - Before a *saveXxx *is executed, the object should be validated > first, that returns all the problems to the client if validation fails. > - All the retrieve queries should run in parallel > - Security should be supported, not only globally but also fine > grained and role-base per service call. > - Cors headers should be supported > - Actors should be monitored > - And many more minor improvements ... > > Next steps > > In the coming weeks I want update the hosting site with the new cartride > and prepare a new plugin, including this cartridge. I also want to migrate > the Dojo cartridge and I am thinking of creating new frontend cartridges > Play? .. Dart? But most important is to in-cooperate your comments in order > to generate a state-of-art next generation web-based application based on > the principles of the Reactive Manifesto. > > I am looking to you comments. > > -- > >>>>>>>>>> Read the docs: http://akka.io/docs/ > >>>>>>>>>> Check the FAQ: > http://doc.akka.io/docs/akka/current/additional/faq.html > >>>>>>>>>> Search the archives: https://groups.google.com/group/akka-user > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Akka User List" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/akka-user. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- Patrik Nordwall Typesafe <http://typesafe.com/> - Reactive apps on the JVM Twitter: @patriknw -- >>>>>>>>>> Read the docs: http://akka.io/docs/ >>>>>>>>>> Check the FAQ: >>>>>>>>>> http://doc.akka.io/docs/akka/current/additional/faq.html >>>>>>>>>> Search the archives: https://groups.google.com/group/akka-user --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Akka User List" group. 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