SummerB
Kick-start now and Evolve later your Java back-end application!
What SummerB is offering?
A set of building blocks that are usually needed for java back-end applications. With those building blocks it gives you a head start - allows to quickly assemble application.
it is based on Spring Framework and designed using SOLID design principles. Since 2015, summerb was used in a number of commercial and personal projects, proven to serve its purpose. Since then it was improved number of times.
Some of the mostly used libraries are:
- EasyCrud - JdbcTemplate-based CRUD functionality designed for simplicity and extensibility
- Users - implementation of repositories for Users and Permissions (suitable for ACL style)
- Validation - a library designed for business-logic validation (most appropriate for service layer, NOT facade)
- DB Upgrade - Simplistic approach for migrating your DB (way simpler than flyway and liquibase)
- Internationalization (i18n) - elementary primitives for user language agnostic messages
A bit more rare, but still sometimes useful things:
- Security - elementary security primitives on top of Spring Security
- Properties - a persistent approach for handling business-objects properties (don't confuse with application properties)
- StringTemplate - primitives for compiling string templates and evaluating them (default impl is based on SpEL)
- MiniCMS - gives you locale-based functionality for working with text content
- Email - primitives for sending emails
- Webboilerplate - a set of heavily opinionated parts of Spring MVC application (I think I will tear down this soon)
Designed for evolution
Unlike some other tools, SummerB allows you to quickly bootstrap usual facilities in your application AND allow you to evolve your application while gradually augmenting or replacing SummerB components.
If you're working in software development world long enough, you know the price of "magic". At some point you come across some library/framework that allows you to "implement" huge amount of functionality in a matter of few keystrokes. But then (usually this happens in real, long-living projects, used by real people) you bump into some shortage - a bottleneck that significantly slows you down and does not allow you to grow.
SummerB is designed to overcome this. You can do both -- quickly bootstrap the application here and now AND evolve it to meet business needs later.