jcrud - Spring Booted Django admin clone - https://github.com/alexpdp7/jcrud This is a little experiment that probably will not go anywhere. I love Django's admin, and it annoys me to no end that there doesn't exist anything else like it, especially for Java. I'm a big fan of relational databases, and defining your entities in anything else than SQL annoys me too, so jcrud will rely on the metadata already found in your database (using SchemaCrawler). REQUIREMENTS * Java 8 * Spring 4 (webmvc, jdbc) * Thymeleaf 2.1.3 (although you should be able to override the default templates with any other template engine supported by Spring Boot) * jQuery, jQuery UI 1.11 (bundled as webjars) Sample apps use Spring Boot 1.1.1, and you should probably use it too- we adopt many of its autoconfiguration properties and if you don't want to use it, you will need to adapt many things. GUIDE Just mvn:install jcrud to build and install it. The rest of projects are sample applications, once jcrud is installed, you should be able to run: $ mvn spring-boot:run from their directory to run them, check their READMEs for details. Most samples use H2 and get an automatically configured transient database Spring Boot-style so you shouldn't need to do anything else. You should be able to just add some TableControllers to an ApplicationContext, pointing at your tables and go. Take a look at petclinic for the basic structure. TODO * Search and filtering * Non-crud operations * Relational patterns We should support UI representation of: * Primary foreign keys: as "polymorphic" forms And support: * Composite primary keys * Security It should be possible to define fine-grained (table, row and column-level) permissions. We should include a sample relational model (role, user, group, permission) with nested role support, but also allow total customization and stuff such as LDAP integration. This should include stuff like workflows ("state" fields possible values depend on the current state, permissions of the user and other parameters). * Auditing We should include database-level auditing of changes integrated in the frontend * Multiple frontends At the moment we aim for a progressively-enhanced HTML UI, but we should be able to add different frontends (mobile apps, desktop apps, etc.) with minimal work, by exposing the backend functionality via RPC.